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8 <br />Plan strategies to reduce parking demand. The City may not require increased <br />off-street parking as a result of the parking assessments. <br />(5) Interim surface parking areas may be provided by EHA for the purpose of <br />overflow, residential uses, and non-residential uses. <br />(6) Interim parking areas for construction use may be unpaved and without curbs <br />and use gravel surfacing, all subject to approval by Everett Public Works. <br />Interim sidewalks may be paved with asphalt. Interim walking paths may use <br />gravel or woodchips. <br />(7) At least 30 days before an interim use or feature with public access ends, EHA <br />shall post signs conspicuously on the Property with notice of the end date. <br />F. Activation of Commercial and Retail Spaces. Through a robust community input process <br />that included representatives from the Delta Neighborhood, EHA incorporated <br />retail/commercial space in the Project. It is EHA’s goal to occupy these spaces with <br />neighborhood scale businesses and organizations that provide synergistic opportunities <br />with each other and contribute to the activation of public amenity space uses and <br />increase long term neighborhood resiliency, including walkability. EHA agrees that it is a <br />benefit to the residents, the surrounding neighborhood, and the Project to activate <br />these spaces. In furtherance of these goals, EHA agrees to the following: <br />(1) In each Project building with a retail or commercial space, EHA will sequence the <br />building construction so that the building’s retail/commercial space(s) are ready <br />for leasing no later than six months after the building’s residential spaces are <br />ready for leasing. EHA may request extensions of that deadline, which the <br />Planning Director will review and will not unreasonably deny. <br />(2) EHA will use reasonable efforts to attract tenants for Project retail and <br />commercial spaces, including without limitation using advertising and brokers as <br />necessary, with a focus on attracting tenants related to food/beverage, retail, <br />restaurant, café/coffee shop uses. <br />(3) EHA will provide commercially reasonable rent and tenant improvement <br />allowances and incentives for Project retail and commercial space that are at <br />least as advantageous to tenants as those generally used in retail and <br />commercial space of like kind and quality north of 41st Street in Everett. <br />(4) If a Project retail or commercial space is vacant, EHA will maintain the space in <br />good condition, including without limitation all exterior surfaces in good <br />condition, no peeling paint, no rust, clean and free of dirt, moss, and algae. <br />(5) If a Project retail or commercial space is vacant for more than six months, EHA <br />will further maintain the attractiveness of the space, if requested by the City, by <br />painting windows with visually appealing scenes depicting or suggesting <br />business or cultural activities and will display art or provide other displays of <br />cultural or educational value. EHA may propose alternative means to maintain <br />the attractiveness of the space, which the Planning Director will review and will <br />not unreasonably deny.