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

54. The Everett Community Planning and Economic Development Department assumed the role of lead agency for review of the project's impacts as required by the State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA). The Director acting as SEPA Responsible Official. The Applicant submitted an environmental checklist with its application materials. The Applicant then met with the Planning, Police, Fire, and Public Works Departments, submitted traffic and parking studies, and revised its proposal in response to City feedback. After the Planning Department approved the SEPA checklist, they required an additional parking study. All of the SEPA documents were circulated to other City agencies for review. Upon completion of review, the Director issued a mitigated determination of non -significance (MDNS), having found that any probable, significant adverse environmental impacts of the project not fully addressed through compliance with applicable City development regulations and policies could be effectively mitigated by four mitigation measures to a point of non -significance. The four mitigation measures addressed the following: 1) grading/filling not to affect off -site property; 2) compliance with transportation mitigation requirements per EMC 18.40; 3) recording of a covenant (sample attached to MDNS) that governs the number of vehicles owned and parked on - site by building tenants; and 4) provision of 53 parking spaces on -site, 43 for residents and 10 for the proposed retail space, and recording of an additional covenant in the event that any of the required parking is proposed to be provided off -site. Exhibit C-1; Dave Tyler Testimony. 55. The MDNS required the covenant regarding parking restrictions to include a prohibition against leasing to a tenant with a vehicle unless a parking stall can be provided. The covenant must also require quarterly monitoring and reporting of tenant data including: certification that tenants are primarily students or were enrolled students within the previous school year; numbers of tenants broken down into domestic students, international students, and non -students; numbers of tenants who own, lease, store, or use a vehicle for purposes of transit to/from the property; and the number of residential parking stalls the property manager has assigned. Exhibit C-1. 56. The number of parking stalls required for the proposed retail space was based on the off- street parking provisions within the zoning code at EMC Chapter 19.34, Table 34-1. In order to arrive at a number of residential parking stalls required for the project, the Applicant submitted a professionally prepared parking demand memorandum (parking memo) that includes trip generation estimates and parking demand data for a mix of international and domestic students based on documented vehicle ownership and parking utilization rates at Everett Community College. The parking memo assumed a mix of 50% domestic/50% international students residing in the project. Based on the ECC- specific data, the parking memo projected 167 daily residential vehicle trips, including 13 AM and 16 PM peak hour trips, from the project. Parking permit data (2017) from the College showed international students tend to own cars at a rate of 0.02 cars per student, while domestic students own cars at a rate of 0.34 vehicles per student. Based on these 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 page 25 of 32