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3. Transit-Oriented Communities Everett Housing Action Plan 36 BACKGROUND AND FINDINGS Overview To explore TOD opportunities in the Evergreen Way/Casino Road vicinity, the team prepared a conceptual study of housing redevelopment and neighborhood building opportunities around the current bus rapid transit (BRT) and future LRT stations near the intersection of Evergreen Way, Casino Road and SR 526. This conceptual TOD/neighborhood “plan” was then used to focus public engagement on a more specific set of housing development issues including displacement of residents living in affordable housing, development of neighborhood supporting commercial and public services, neighborhood design character, and local access improvement measures. A neighborhood “chat” was conducted via Zoom remote meeting platform on February 18, 2021 and February 23, 2021, the results of which are summarized below. The recommendations are based on the comments from both the public and the Advisory Committee. Housing Needs Assessment and Prior City Work In 2013, the PSRC’s Growing Transit Communities Oversight Committee approved the Growing Transit Communities Strategy to support equitable transit communities in the central Puget Sound region. The Strategy includes a toolbox of 24 key strategies to support equitable Transit Oriented Development near high-capacity transit facilities in the region. The Growing Transit Communities overarching goal for Strategies to Provide Affordable Housing Choices is to provide housing choices affordable to a full range of incomes near high-capacity transit. The City’s Comprehensive Plan recognizes this strategy and has used the guidance provided in the PSRC’s Growing Transit Communities planning documents in the development of plans around high- capacity transit (HCT) stations, most notably in the Metro Everett and Evergreen Way planning. The principles also guided this section of the Housing Action Plan. Most relevant to this strategy is the work accomplished around the Evergreen Way/Casino Road station area as part of the Evergreen Way Redevelopment Plan, and many of the concepts presented here are from that work. Public Engagement During the Chat sessions on February 18 and 23, participants were asked several poll questions to gauge initial opinions about proposed TOD strategies. The survey questions asked how participants felt about different aspects of the TOD strategy, which included: 1. Overall corridor growth strategy, 2. Connecting the neighborhoods, 3 Encourage ample building heights along Evergreen Way (5 & 6 Story MF), 4. Allowing corner lot duplexes, , 5 Allowing townhouses in SDF neighborhoods, 6. Allowing courtyard homes in SF neighborhoods, 7. Providing retail and commercial amenities and services, and 8 Protecting affordable housing. Finally, the first question was repeated to determine if participants’ attitudes changed during the polling process. The polling results are shown in Appendix B.