1020 N BROADWAY EVCC STUDENT HOUSING - WHOLE SITE 2022-05-23

Amended Planning Director Interpretation (PDI #15-02 - mended), which allowed entities not affiliated or under contract with the College to propose student housing utilizing the student housing parking standards based on Planning Director (Director) discretion to establish the required number of off-street parking spaces on a discretionary case -by -case basis for student housing uses within the Institutional Overlay Zone associated with the college subject to a recorded covenant prohibiting conversion of the building to other residential use (Exhibit C-3); and • Planning Director Interpretation (PDI #18-002), which exercised. Director discretion to establish development standards for privately owned property within the ECC Master Plan Institutional Overlay Zone (Exhibit C-4). 3. Everett Community College (ECC, Appellant) appealed Everett Community College (ECC, Appellant) timely appealed the four administrative determinations. Exhibit E-26. As clarified following the pre -hearing conference, the issues on appeal were as follows: A. The privately developed "student housing" use proposed in the project is not permitted on the site in the College's Institutional Overlay Zone; B. The City failed to follow the code -required Master Plan review process to establish the private "student housing" use proposed in the project; C. The project is inconsistent with the requirements of the Master Plan because: It fails to adhere to the minimum 20-foot setback required for the site in the Master Plan. 2. It changes the use planned for the project site in the Master Plan. 3. It is inconsistent with the goals and policies of the adopted Master Plan. D. The City erred in permitting multiple design modifications for the project. E. The City failed to adequately analyze, and require mitigation for, the probable adverse environmental impacts of the project under its SEPA authority. Exhibit E-27. Site Conditions and Context 4. Everett Community College educates more than 19,000 students every year at several locations in Snohomish County, with most students and faculty at the main campus in north Everett. Established in 1941, the main campus of Everett Community College has been operating on 46 acres near the Legion Memorial Park Golf Course since 1958. The majority of the main campus is located to the northwest of the subject property. The main campus includes 15 classroom and lab buildings named after the peaks of the Cascade and Olympic mountain ranges. The main campus serves approximately 6000 students per quarter and employs approximately 800 staff. The monument sign announcing entrance to the main campus is located at 10th and Broadway, in front of Findings, Conclusions, and Decisions in the Everett Comm. College Appeals of Koz Student Housing Administrative Decisions REV II # 17-016, PDI # 15-02, PDI # 18-02, and SEPA # 17-013 Everett Hearing Examiner I page 8 of 32