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1 <br />ORDINANCE NO. <br />AN ORDINANCE Creating an Alcohol Impact Area in the <br />Core Commercial Areas of the City of Everett, and Requiring a <br />Report to the City Council by November 30, 2015, Regarding <br />the Voluntary Efforts to Reduce Chronic Public Inebriation. <br />Whereas, the Washington Administrative Code (the "WAC") §314-12-215 <br />authorizes the City to identify areas within its boundaries where there are <br />increased levels of chronic public inebriation and illegal activity associated <br />therewith as Alcohol Impact Areas ("AlAs"); and <br />Whereas; within an AIA the City seeks to reduce levels of chronic public <br />inebriation and illegal activity associated with alcohol sales or consumption by <br />requesting the voluntary cooperation of businesses engaged in off -premise liquor <br />sales to, in part, stop selling products associated with chronic public inebriation in <br />the AIA; and <br />Whereas, City data, together with input from City stakeholders, including <br />businesses, services, and residents, supports findings that the geographic area <br />identified in section 1 of this ordinance has increased levels of chronic public <br />inebriation and suffers from its effects, such as increased crime, blight, and use <br />of social and public safety services; and <br />Whereas, these effects negatively affect the health, safety, and welfare of <br />the nearby businesses, residents, and visitors; and <br />Whereas, the City has participated in the Everett Community Streets <br />Initiative aimed at solving street level social issues including chronic public <br />inebriation and alcohol related crime and blight; and <br />Whereas, the establishment of an AIA is supportive of the Streets <br />Initiative plan because it seeks to reduce public chronic inebriation through <br />restrictions on the sale of products associated with chronic public inebriation; and <br />Whereas, neighborhood groups, schools, and businesses in the affected <br />area support the establishment of this AIA; and <br />Whereas, if, after six months, the City's efforts to voluntarily reduce <br />chronic public inebriation and illegal activity associated with the safe and <br />2 <br />