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The Watershed Company■ EAplumen June 2012 improvements were affected)must be used for outdoor recreation in perpetuity, or a replacement must be provided. 1.3.1 The Conversions Conversion for the Fire Station A SEPA checklist was prepared to identify environmental issues associated with the development of the fire station on the Conversion Site (City of Everett 1992) (Appendix B). In 1995,the City authorized the construction of the fire station, driveway, and parking area at the northeast corner of Sullivan Park along 112th Street. The fire station was constructed in 1996. The City chose the park location on the basis of emergency response times. In 1990,the City of Everett Fire Department needed to reduce emergency response times to a growing population of residents and businesses in the Silver Lake area, and considered potential sites for a new fire station. Response times to the Silver Lake area from the existing fire station,which is located west of Interstate 5,was between nine and eleven minutes. Fire officials determined that adding a fire station at this location would cut average response times in half,reducing them to between four and five minutes. Additionally,locating the new fire station near Sullivan Park-the area's major public waterfront and recreation facility-would allow the Park and Fire Departments to provide emergency services to patrons at the park. Conversion for the Road In 2006, the City constructed a west-bound one-lane road on Sullivan Park property along the south side of the fire station,separating the fire station from the park. The need for the one-lane road was a consequence of the road widening of SR 527, a few blocks east of the park,which eliminated left turns onto SR 527 out of the Silver Lake neighborhood and left turns off of SR 527 into the Silver Lake neighborhood. The one-way road(which is part of the conversion)provides a means of exiting the Silver Lake neighborhood other than onto south-bound SR 527. 1.3.2 Notification to RCO In 2000 and 2005,the Interagency Committee for Outdoor Recreation (since renamed Washington State Recreation and Conservation Office)contacted prior Directors of the Parks and Recreation Department regarding federal grant compliance issues at Sullivan Park following construction of the fire station and later the road. In 2007, City officials,including the current Director of the Parks and Recreation Department, approached the RCO to acknowledge that their predecessors had developed the fire station and roadway without knowledge of the grant- Page 3