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Agenda Subject: Housing Hope Plan and Zoning Amendment <br />Staff Report to Planning Commission <br />Date: 9/3/2020 <br />PUBLIC CQMMENT <br />PUBLIC/AGENCY NOTICE: <br />The Everett Historical Commission has recommended to the Planning <br />Commission that the application to amend the boundary of the <br />Norton -Grand Historical Overlay be denied. <br />COMMENT LETTERS: <br />KEY ISSUES SUMMARY: <br />Many emails and letters have come in on this project. Those <br />comments are attached to the report. <br />A wide variety of issues have come forward, including: <br />Impacts to noise, parking, traffic, building scale <br />o Historic character <br />Loss of accessible green space <br />o Housing for low-income <br />o Police activity with similar neighborhood projects <br />o Neighborhood character <br />o Pedestrian safety <br />o Housing density <br />o Building heights <br />O Organizational concerns <br />© Concentration of low-income and homeless housing buildings <br />o Encourage new multifamily in locations with the least impact to <br />existing single-family neighborhoods <br />STAFF RESPONSE: <br />The issue of the use of the open space is not a consideration in the <br />review of this request. The school district prepared a Property <br />Management Plan in 2011 that addressed the use of this site as a sale <br />or exchange with the city of Everett. The City indicated that they were <br />not interested in acquiring the property; this site is not within the <br />city's Parks and Recreation Open Space Plan. <br />All other public comments are issues that the Planning Commission <br />needs to consider. <br />JECQSQON C <br />RII <br />SOURCE: <br />Comprehensive Plan Amendments: Chapter One, Introduction, V111. <br />Annual Amendment and Update of the Growth Management <br />Comprehensive Plan, Section H. Amending the Land Use Map. Link: <br />https://everettwa.gov/DocumentCenter/View/4858/Chapter-01- <br />Introduction-PDF <br />Zoning Map Amendments: Chapter 19.41.160, Rezones. Link: <br />https://www.codepublishing.corn/WA/Everett/#!/Everett19/Everett19 <br />41.html#19.41.160 <br />Historic Overlay Amendments: Chapter 19.33.040, Historic Overlay <br />Zone Designation —Criteria. Link: <br />https://www.codepublishing.com/WA/Everett/#!/Everett19/Everettl9 <br />33.html4119.33.040 <br />Page 2 of 10 <br />