2025/04/23 Council Agenda Packet

There are basically 2 access points into Legion Park Division 2. The first being at the 8th Street intersection with Broadway. There is a smaller street, at an angle just south of 8th Street allowing cars to merge onto southbound Broadway. Using this small street northbound is generally dangerous due to the angle and narrow width of the pavement. The second access point is further north utilizing Skyline Drive to connect with Marine View Drive thru the Plat of Mt. Baker View Addition. Skyline Drive is a very narrow paved surface. Two cars can pass provided there are no cars parked in the street. The roadways in Legion Park Division 2 are sixty foot right-of-ways with wide paved surfaces. There was a 3rd access point into the neighborhood until about 25 years ago at Waverly Ave and Tower Street. This is next to the new EvCC gym (former Tyee Bowl site). About 25 years ago, EvCC proposed to build and new 7 story parking garage in the parking lot just north of the EvCC gym. Working with the neighborhood, the college agreed to build the garage as far away as possible which meant building the garage next to Tower St. This would require the parking garage to straddle Waverly Ave and thus the Waverly right-of-way would need to be vacated. Vacation was approved by the City. Funding for the parking garage never materialized and the garage project was dropped. At the north end of the EvCC Early Learning Center, along the former Waverly Street right-of-way, the old roadway is a cul-de-sac, gated with landscaping. The one map included in this email chain showing a vacated right-of-way thru the State of Washington DSHS complex, I have not seen before. That may have needed to be done for the construction of the DSHS project in the late 1970’s. And that is not Waverly. Waverly runs north-south and I am most certain is vacated thru the college parking lot. I don’t think the Early Learning Center would support reinstating Waverly as a city street and increasing traffic in front of their facility. And someday, the proposed parking garage may actually be built (or another college building) as the college grows. Finally, the majority of lots in Legion Park Division 2 are part of the Department of Ecology/ ASARCO contaminated soil removal project. Our lot had the top 12 inches of soil removed in the front yard and 18 inches of soil removed in the backyard and replaced with clean soil. A thick fabric liner was placed at the bottom of the new soil mark. There are guidelines from the DOE on working below the liner so disruption of the contaminated soil particles is not spread. I noticed on the project some 175 feet away from our home required some deep digs for the installation of concrete drainage facilities along with some grading activity. This property may not have participated in the soil cleanup project for this immediate area in 2012. But most other lots along Legion Drive and 5th Street have undergone the clean up. New lot/house sewer and water lines, etc., for example, may be below the clean up areas. The City may want to make sure that new construction activity does not “undo” all of the clean up work done in the recent past. There is clean up work being done at the present time in the north Waverly Ave area, west side of street. Just points to perhaps consider as Legion Park Division 2 is redeveloped. Hoping you can share this with Ms. Gregerson. Sincerely, Glenda and Neil Anderson. 2703 5th Street, Everett. From: Judy Tuohy <JTuohy@everettwa.gov> Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2025 12:56 PM To: glendaanderson5546@gmail.com Subject: Fw: [EXTERNAL] Increasing population density with the City of Everett Category 2: Sensitive information