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ERC Narrative Statement(5) the expanded Summit campus. If there are concerns about the rezone at the east properties or the size of the rezone, ERC is open to limiting the rezone to the west properties only. Evergreen Recovery Centers' long-standing presence in the neighborhood and track record of helping individuals with special needs is well documented in five Special Property Use permits for 2601 Summit Avenue dating from 1972. The proposed land use designation supports the comprehensive plan location criteria to rezone for specific, targeted uses that integrate well with and improve the surrounding community and neighborhood. In addition,the proposed land use designation would better align with current actual uses and context. It would also recognize an irregular land use condition as an opportunity to improve vital social services in a neighborhood where the use is already well-established and in a way that will not impact nearby single family uses. This supports the following Comprehensive Plan Sections: • Chapter 2, IV C 2.1-Policy 2.1.6: Hospitals and many clinics in Everett have located in residential areas either prior to any zoning regulations or under previous zoning codes. Protect established residential neighborhoods from further encroachment by hospitals, clinics and other related medical activities and limit such uses to those residentially zoned areas where such uses are already well established. • Chapter 2, IV C 2.1-Policy 2.1.8: Require development,expansion and remodeling of hospital and clinic facilities to be visually compatible with and minimize the parking and traffic impacts upon established residential areas. • Chapter 2, IV C 2.2-Policy 2.2.2: Discourage speculative rezoning and require,where necessary, proposed new commercial designations to be based upon a binding plan that integrates well with and improves the surrounding commercial area and adjoining neighborhoods. • Chapter 2, IV C 2.8-Policy 2.8.2: "Hard to site" facilities shall be located so as to provide the necessary service to the intended users of the facility with the least impact on surrounding land uses. Only sites that are located so as to promote compatibility with other existing or planned land uses shall be allowed for such uses. With more than 25 years' experience in treating pregnant and parenting mothers in Everett, ERC has evidence that its services improve the health and stability of at-risk mothers and their children. The proposed land use designation will allow ERC to better serve pregnant and parenting mothers in recovery and, as important, more of their children who are often in foster care because of the small size of current rooms. The proposed designation will further the comprehensive plan goal of supporting housing supply for people with special needs in a way that has little or no impact on nearby single family uses. This supports Location Criteria 6 and the following Comprehensive Plan Sections: