EVERETT — Planning staff shared details of the final draft of Everett’s comprehensive plan periodic update on Wednesday as the City Council enters the final stretch before voting on whether to approve the planning document.

In the works for more than three years, the comprehensive plan amends city land use law and development regulations to plan for population growth over the next two decades. Larger cities like Everett are required by state law to update their plans every 10 years.

The plan lays out a framework to prepare for 65,000 new residents, 36,500 new housing units and 84,300 jobs by 2044, working to ensure housing affordability and availability while preventing the negative impacts of low-density urban sprawl .

City planners implemented some changes between its April 7

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