A. 
Frequency and Content for Updating the Comprehensive Plan. The Comprehensive Plan shall be updated no more often than once every year. The update shall consider levels of service for transportation, sewer and water and may consider other levels of service such as police and fire services, park facilities and programs, planning, engineering, and building services, and financial office services. The purpose of considering levels of service is to assure concurrency of development with levels of service.
B. 
Docket. The Comprehensive Plan shall also consider a docket of items which may be used to add to, or change, the Comprehensive Plan. The docket is maintained by the Director. The need for change may relate to a need to change the Comprehensive Plan Map, or a need to change the Plan to provide consistency with a change, or need to change, the zoning text.
C. 
Update Procedure. Approximately nine months after the last Comprehensive Plan and Map update, the Director shall review items that have accumulated in the docket.
The Director shall inform the public, through public notice in a paper of general circulation, as an information item on the agendas of the City Council, Planning Commission, and Hearing Examiner, and in regular posting places of the City, that the City shall consider an update of the Comprehensive Plan and Map. This notice shall include the purpose(s) of updating the Comprehensive Plan and Map, a deadline for submitting recommended changes, adding to the docket, and a tentative hearing schedule.
D. 
Planning Commission. The Planning Commission shall hold at least one public meeting on the docket of items and/or recommendations to change the plan and map, and may request City Council to recommend any areas for study.
The Planning Commission may establish sub-committees for study which shall include members of the public and at least two Planning Commissioners. In all cases, the sub-committee shall have a majority representing residents of the City.
At the public meetings, the Planning Commission shall consider the information from public testimony, subcommittees, and staff. Following consideration of changes and verifying concurrency of recommended change with levels of service for transportation, sewer, and water, the Planning Commission shall recommend changes in the Comprehensive Plan and Map to City Council.
E. 
The City Council shall review the recommendation of the Planning Commission in a regularly scheduled meeting and set a public hearing to consider changes to update the Comprehensive Plan and Map. The public hearing for changes in the Comprehensive Plan and Map may be held at the same meeting when recommended changes to the zoning text and map consistent with the Comprehensive Plan amendments are also heard.
F. 
A sub-area plan may be adopted at any time as long as it is generally consistent with the Comprehensive Plan and concurrency is provided with appropriate levels of service.
(Ord. 2811 § 2 (Exh. 1), 2022)
A. 
The zoning text may be changed at any time as long as the change is consistent with the Comprehensive Plan. Immediately following a change(s) in the Comprehensive Plan and Map, the Zoning Ordinance text and map must be changed to be consistent with the Comprehensive Plan and Map.
B. 
When the docket is reviewed and the public is informed of the update for the Comprehensive Plan and Map, the public shall also be notified that:
1. 
Any rezone requests should be consistent with the Comprehensive Plan Map; and
2. 
A request to change the Zoning Map may involve a change in the Comprehensive Plan Map.
C. 
The Planning Commission shall have a public hearing and make a recommendation to City Council consistent with MTMC § 18.05.180 and § 18.05.300(D).
D. 
The City Council shall hold a public hearing and make a final determination on the zoning text or map changes consistent with MTMC § 18.05.200.
E. 
Criteria for Review and Conclusions of Law. The Hearing Examiner shall consider the following criteria in making their recommendation to the City Council on any Zoning Map change. The Council may approve the rezone request only if the proposal conforms to all of the following criteria. The Council shall adopt findings and conclusions for the record which support their decision.
1. 
The proposal is in accordance with the Comprehensive Plan;
2. 
Any parcel of land contained in this request, whether under single or unified ownership, is not receiving special or privileged treatment;
3. 
The proposal will not be materially detrimental to properties in the vicinity or the community based on the entire range of uses allowed in the proposed zone;
4. 
Adequate public services will be available to serve the full range of proposed uses;
5. 
The reclassification is warranted because of a change in circumstances, or because of a need for additional property in the proposed zoning district classification, or because the proposed zoning classification is appropriate for reasonable development of the subject property; and
6. 
The proposed rezone would promote the general health, welfare, and safety of the community.
(Ord. 2811 § 2 (Exh. 1), 2022)
A. 
The City's annexation procedures shall follow the requirements of state law.
B. 
An annexation shall be adopted by ordinance. First reading of the ordinance shall occur following a public hearing on the annexation per state law. The proposed ordinance shall be forwarded to the Boundary Review Board of Snohomish County together with any application materials required. Following Boundary Review Board action, if any, the City shall have a second reading and consider adopting the ordinance to annex.
C. 
The Comprehensive Plan Map shall be used to establish the zoning classification for an area to be annexed. The zoning shall be consistent with the Comprehensive Plan Map.
D. 
The City shall adopt zoning for the annexation area in a separate ordinance. Planning Commission should consider and recommend an appropriate zoning classification to the City Council. Planning Commission's consideration shall include review for concurrency and consistency of the proposed zoning or use, if known, with the Comprehensive Plan and Map and any applicable levels of service. If the applicant requests a zoning classification other than that shown on the Comprehensive Plan Map the applicant shall make a concurrent application for a Comprehensive Plan amendment.
(Ord. 2811 § 2 (Exh. 1), 2022)