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EEVERETT 1 <br />Project title: <br />Adopt an Ordinance relating to public health and safety creating Service Facility Buffer Zones for social services <br />providers, shelter and temporary housing providers, and other high impact areas and amending Title 9 of the <br />Everett Municipal Code by enacting a new Chapter 9.54 EMC <br />City Council Agenda Item Cover Sheet <br />Council Bill # <br />CB 2304-30 <br />Project: Ordinance for Service Facility Buffer Zones <br />Partner/Supplier: N/A <br />Agenda dates requested: Location: Everett, WA <br />4/19, 4/26, 5/3 <br />Briefing 4/19 <br />Proposed action 5/3 <br />Consent <br />Action 5/3 <br />Ordinance X <br />Public hearing <br />Yes x <br />Preceding action: N/A <br />Fund: N/A <br />Fiscal summary statement: <br />N/A <br />No Project summary statement: <br />Budget amendment: <br />Yes x No <br />PowerPoint presentation: <br />Yes x No <br />Attachments: <br />Ordinance <br />Department(s) involved: <br />Legal <br />Community Development <br />Contact person: <br />Lacey Offutt <br />Julie Willie <br />Phone number: <br />(425) 257-8528 <br />(425)257-7120 <br />Email: <br />loff utt@ everettwa.gov <br />JWillie@everettwa.gov <br />Initialed by: <br />Department head <br />Administration <br />Council President <br />This ordinance will add a new chapter 9.54 to Title 9 of the Everett Municipal Code and <br />is necessary to ensure safe access to services to individuals seeking care and mitigate <br />negative impacts in areas with intensive services to ensure general public safety. <br />The proposed new code (EMC 9.54.020.A) states that "no person shall sit or lie down <br />upon, or place a blanket, sleeping bag, backpack, chair, mattress, couch, stool, or any <br />similar equipment, item, or furniture upon City property, whether improved or <br />unimproved, within a Service Facility Buffer Zone." This prohibition is subject to certain <br />exceptions contained in proposed EMC 9.54.020.B. "City property" means any City <br />street, park, utility property or other City property or right of way. <br />"Service Facility Buffer Zones" under proposed EMC 9.54.030 are designated by the <br />Mayor. The Mayor may designate a two -block -radius Service Facility Buffer Zones <br />around either (1) a social service provider (such as substance abuse treatment provider, <br />behavioral health provider, shelter / temporary housing provider, etc.) or (2) an area <br />highly impacted by streel-level issues. <br />Proposed EMC 9.54.040 also states that no person on City property may provide within <br />a Service Facility Buffer Zone any food, beverages, goods, supplies or services of any sort <br />to any persons engaging in conduct prohibited by EMC 9.54.020, unless authorized by a <br />valid City permit. <br />Recommendation (exact action requested of Council): <br />Adopt an Ordinance relating to public health and safety creating Service Facility Buffer Zones for <br />social services providers, shelter and temporary housing providers, and other high impact areas and <br />amending Title 9 of the Everett Municipal Code by enacting a new Chapter 9.54 EMC <br />