Plans & Reports

City Plans

Comprehensive Plan

The City of Everett’s Comprehensive Plan is the policy document that guide the growth of the City for the next 20 years. The City recently completed its periodic major update to the comprehensive plan.


Metro Everett Plan

Adopted in 2018, the Metro Everett Plan is a subarea plan for the City’s regionally designated Metropolitan Center to address the allocation of population and job growth. The subarea plan has since been incorporated into the comprehensive plan, with additional modifications made through the 2025 major update.


ESDA Reports

Convergence Study (2021)

Commissioned by Housing Hope and published in May 2021, the Convergence Study is a detailed analysis of how to build core components of a sustainable, equitable, and thriving neighborhood on publicly-owned properties while growing gracefully in a way that supports existing light industrial businesses in the Everett Station District.


Future Concepts Report (2020)

Everett Station District Alliance Future Concepts 2020 report was created as a communication tool to help the neighborhood respond to profound changes. The report focuses on four key elements: (1) Today’s Neighborhood to contextualize the neighborhood as it exists today; (2) Expanding Our Capacity with recommendations for increasing housing; (3) Designing for the Future to present development scenarios and concepts; and (4) Making the Vision a Reality with technical information on how to transition an existing neighborhood to a safe and vibrant transit-oriented community.


Neighborhood Transformation Report (2017)

This report summarizes and synthesizes the most promising ideas to emerge from several community workshops held in 2016 and 2017. The Alliance presented them as recommendations to the City of Everett and Snohomish County to inform, and be included in, updates to the Metro Everett subarea plan or other actions the city and county may pursue.


Mithun Renderings (2015)

In 2015, the design firm Mithun produced a series of images that illustrated how the neighborhood could transform over time.


Other Plans & Reports


PSRC VISION 2050

VISION 2050 is the regional plan for how counties and cities across Snohomish, King, Pierce, and Kitsap Counties are to grow. In addition, there are several sub-plans that are incorporated into the overall plan.


Forterra Green Neighborhood Report (2019)

Forterra, a nonprofit conservation land conservancy, wrote this report providing a concept for the Everett Station District to develop as a greener place with park space.

Forterra has also produced four case studies of other transit-oriented developments to serve as models for the Everett Station District.


PSRC Growing Transit Communities (2013)

From 2011 to 2013, PSRC led a region-wide partnership to develop strategies to grow transit communities with the future light rail system. The resulting collection of strategy documents have served as the foundation for the regional growth strategy incorporated in VISION 2050, which targets 65% of new residents and 75% of new workers to be within a walking distance of high-capacity transit.

The Growing Transit Communities Strategy (Oct. 2013)


Transit-Oriented Communities:
A Blueprint for Washington State Report

The nonprofits Futurewise and Transportation Choices Coalition as well as the design firm GGLO collaborated on this groundbreaking report that outlines the case-for and effective strategies for building high-performing transit-oriented communities.

Transit-Oriented Communities: A Blue Print for Washington State (2009)


Sound Communities

Sound Communities is a partnership between public, private, and non-profit sectors with a vision of leveraging our transit investment to bolster housing affordability, social equity and collective resilience on a regional scale. The effort has produced several useful reports and tools:


UW Studio: Everett Station District Equitable Development Study

Students participating in University of Washington studio classes have produced several reports about the Everett Station District.