Everett Station was proposed as the site of a University of Washington branch campus, with state consultants choosing around the station to house 5,000 students from Snohomish, Island County and Skagit County. The project, dubbed UW North Sound, was put on hold in December 2008 and has since been canceled. With Link Light Rail service expected to be extended from Lynnwood Transit Center to Everett Station in the near future, the City of Everett has since planned to rezone the station's surrounding area to allow multifamily housing, encouraging transit-oriented development by raising height limits to . Another proposal would have a 500-stall parking garage built to replace the southernmost lot at a cost of $15–18 million, allowing Everett Transit to transform the existing western lot into mixed-use development.