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TO BE COMPLETED BY APPLICANT EVALUATION FOR AGENCY USE ONLY Master Plan: The master plan combines program elements and alternative trail concepts based on the opportunities and constraints of the site. The South Everett Forest Preserve will develop the existing forested and vegetated property into a passive public park that would add a new park to the City of Everett park system.The proposed park would include 1,600 lineal feet of trails,seating areas/benches, picnic tables,and signage to be consistent with mitigation requirements to replace recreational features that were lost at Sullivan Park. Development of the proposed park at the South Everett Forest Preserve allows the opportunity to provide recreational facilities that would closely resemble and exceed in function those that were displaced as part of the conversion of Sullivan Park,and would be located in proximity to Sullivan Park. The development of the proposed park is also intended to benefit the surrounding community by providing enhanced park and recreation opportunities.A concept plan is provided in the Master Plan Document. Design Features: • Improve and provide trails and amenities sited at locations of existing primitive trails to minimize impacts to vegetation. • Avoid and restore wetland impacts by providing a boardwalk wetland crossing a the location of an existing trail where the public has created an existing impact by placing pallets and boards to walk on which restrict water flow in the wetland. Pallets and boards would be removed with the new boardwalk and the surface water connection of the wetland would be restored. • Create an urban natural open space with passive trail network and provide large areas of unstructured open space for passive enjoyment. • Provide benches and a picnic area. • Minimize disturbances to vegetation and topography and utilize alignments of existing informal trails. • Locate trails an appropriate distance away from existing residential properties. • The combined trail length shall be 1,600 linear feet to meet recreational mitigation requirements. • Provide a trailhead feature with a neighborhood kiosk for an improved pedestrian connection and orientation to the surrounding neighborhood. • Provide an ADA accessible trail loop with crushed rock surfacing on a flatter area of trail to provide a similar trail experience for the physically challenged. • Retain existing trees. • Remove invasive Himalayan blackberries at the trailhead to improve visual access from 1O9th Street SE. • Provide signs to regulate pedestrian use on trails only and to indicate daylight park hours. • Discourage access to the Interurban Trail from the South Everett Forest Preserve with thicket forming vegetation and woody debris as naturalistic City of Everett Parks and Recreation:South Everett Forest Preserve Page 4 SEPA Checklist June 19,2015