Ordinance 3090-08 - Laserfiche WebLink

11. The SEIS identifies potential measures to mitigate these impacts and assure compatibility with uses on other properties. PEMC, in response to public and Planning Department comments, has prepared a revised "Master Plan for the ECC Property." The June 30, 2008 Staff Report identified additional changes to the PEMC revised master plan to mitigate impacts. 12. During the public hearings conducted by the Planning Commission there was testimony both supporting and opposing the proposed expansion to the ECC property. 13. Representatives of Everett Community College testified in support of PEMC's proposed expansion. The proposed land transaction between ECC and PEMC will allow ECC to plan for and accommodate its long-term future growth on the adjacent land in the North Broadway area that it will acquire from PEMC. ECC will replace the physical education facilities currently on the ECC Property with new facilities closer to its current North Broadway campus. 14. Based on PEMC's 2007 Application, additional information presented by PEMC following the June 2, 2008 Planning Commission hearing,public testimony and the recommendations included in the Staff Report, expansion to the ECC Property is the best alternative to meet PEMC's long-term patient needs in terms of cost, timing, certainty, and operational efficiencies. 15. To achieve the requested land use changes, the City Council must (a) amend the Comprehensive Plan land use map designation for the ECC Property from College (2.2) to Hospital (2.4); (b) rezone the ECC Property from R-2 (Single Family) to R-2-I (Institutional Overlay); and (c) approve PEMC's Master Plan for the ECC Property, as amended with the Staff and Planning Commission recommended revisions contained in Exhibit A. 16. The PEMC Master Plan for the ECC Property contained in Exhibit A provides a plan for developing facilities to meet patient needs, including construction of a Utility Building to support the hospital and medical facilities on the existing