2707 COLBY AVE BASE FILE 2018-01-02 MF Import

'r l I. DECISION ISSUED RESPONSIVE TO SEPA REQUIREMENTS This Decision Document has been prepared and issued by the City of Everett's Director of Planning and Community Development who is identified under Everett Ordinance 1348-87 as the Responsible Official designated to exercise the City's substantive SEPA authority. This document has been prepared responsive to the requirements of RCW 43.21C.060, WAC 197-11-660, and Everett Ordinance 1348-87. The adverse environmental impacts which this Document addresses were identified .in the DEIS on the Colby Square proposal issued on November 8, 1991, as updated and expanded in the FEIS issued on January 22, 1992. These impacts, in the judgement of the Responsible Official, provide the basis for the mitigating measures set forth in this document, and in accordance with WAC 197-11-660. Therefore, the Responsible Official is issuing this SEPA decision which provides for construction of the proposed action subject to compliance with the conditions and requirements listed in this SEPA Decision Document. II. DESCRIPTION OF PROPOSAL The demolition of approximately 92,000 square feet of existing retail and commercial buildings, and the construction of a 16-story office tower (North Tower) and a 7-story professional office building (Professional Office Building) with street level retail and 540 parking stalls in three below grade levels. The 16-story tower would be located at the northwest corner of the site at the corner of Everett Avenue and Colby Avenue. The seven -story professional office building would be located at the southwest corner of the site, at the corner of California Street and Colby Avenue. The first and second stories of both the North Tower and Professional Office building would be part of a continuous base structure extending across the entire western half of the block. The project includes a community performing arts theater with approximately 550 seats to be located in a separate building on the northeast corner of the site at the corner of Everett Avenue and Wetmore Avenue. The project would construct approximately 380,000 gross square feet of new buildings, approximately 192,000 square feet of below grade parking, and a drive -through banking facility of approximately 3,700 square feet. Street level retail, bank and restaurant uses would wrap around the entire office building frontage along California Street, Colby Avenue, and Everett Avenue. Overhead canopies will provide continuous weather protection for pedestrians using the adjacent sidewalk. A pedestrian arcade would be provided mid -block on the