EVERETT — The Everett City Council passed its side of an agreement with Lake Stevens, ending a six-year discussion of what development can happen near Everett’s regional waterline that runs through the southern part of Lake Stevens.

Lake Stevens approved its part of the contract on Oct. 14.

Everett’s regional water system supplies water to approximately 75% of Snohomish County, serving roughly 640,000 people, including the city of Lake Stevens. Three of the city’s transmission lines run through Lake Stevens, but Everett owns the 14-foot-wide maintenance access road that follows the path of the lines through Lake Stevens city limits.

When the transmission lines were built a century ago, the land they ran through was mostly rural. But now, as Lake Stevens continues to grow and develop,

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