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Sullivan Park Fire Station Conversion Draft Environmental Assessment including Camp Patterson(summer day camp),hydro plane races, and canoe races (Appendix A,Figure 2.1-1). In 1979,the Washington State RCO awarded a grant from the federal LWCF to the City of Everett to enhance water-oriented recreation activities in the City. This grant provided funding to help develop underground utility systems,one restroom, a dock, asphalt paths,two day-use shelters, and lighting along pathways. As a result of the use of the LWCF grant, Sullivan Park is protected by Section 6(f)(3) of the LWCF Act and any conversion of such parkland to non- recreation use requires that the area be replaced with similar recreation functions and that federal authority be transferred to the replacement property. 2.1.2 Parkland Conversion In 1996,the City of Everett constructed Fire Station#7 at the northeast portion of Sullivan Park along 112th Street SE to reduce emergency response times in the Silver Lake Area(Appendix A,Figure 2.1-2;Appendix B). Several potential sites were considered during the planning process for the fire station and the Conversion Site was selected due in part to the fact that this location would reduce response times in the Silver Lake area by half and it would allow the Fire Department to provide emergency services at a major public waterfront(Silver Lake)and recreation facility. Development of Fire Station#7 on the Conversion Site displaced vegetated/forested areas and passive recreational uses,including a limited informal trail system,in Sullivan Park. None of the facilities that were developed as part of the LWCF grant were affected by the conversion. Subsequent to the development of Fire Station#7,the City of Everett constructed a one-lane roadway that extended Silver Lake Road (Appendix A,Figure 2.1-3). The one-lane roadway separates Fire Station#7 from Sullivan Park. This roadway provides vehicular access for the residential neighborhood located to the north of Silver Lake and became necessary when the widening of SR-527 eliminated left turns into and out of the neighborhood. None of the facilities that were developed as part of the LWCF grant were affected by the development of the roadway. As described in previous sections, approximately 1.6 acres of Sullivan Park were converted from recreation use to non-recreation use as part of the development of Fire Station#7 and the new roadway.These areas make up the Conversion Site area that is the subject of this analysis. The recreational utility lost as a result of the conversion was a loss of 1.6 acres of passive use open space. 2.2 Replacement Site The Replacement Site is located approximately 0.25 mile northwest of Sullivan Park and is generally bound by undeveloped/forested areas to the north,the Page 8