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

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, WA(� 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 and the Addendum to the EIS issued on September 29, 1993 These impacts, in the judgment of the Responsible Official, provide the basis for the mitigating measures set forth in this document, >,nd 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 coml-!;ance with the conditions and requirements listed in this SEPA Decision Document. DESCRIPTION OF PROPOSAL The demolition of approximately 92,000 square feet of existing retail and commercial buildings, and the construction of a 13-story office tower (Everett Mutual Tower) and a 7-story professional office building (Professional Office Building) with street level retail and 334 parking stalls. Phase 2, the Everett Mutual Tower and base structure will include 249 parking stalls in one below grade level, 2-1/2 above grade levels, and in an off -site parking garage. The 13-story tower would be located at the northwest comer of the site at the comer of Everett Avenue and Colby Avenue. The seven -story professional office building would be located at the southwest comer of the site, at the comer of California Street and Colby Avenue. The first story and elevated parking levels of both the Everett Mutual Tower and Professional Office building would be part of a con0uous base structure extending across the entire western half of the block. The project includes a community performing arts theater with approximately 513 seats to be located in a separate building on the northeast comer of the site at the comer of Everett Avenue and Wetmore Avenue. The theater has been constructed. The project (Everett Mutual Tower, base structure and Professional Office Building) would consist of approximately 240,200 gross square feet of office, retail and banking space, in addition, the project would include approximately 44,000 square feet of below grade parking, 86,100 square feet of elevated parking and a drive -through banking facility of approximately 3,700 square feet. Approximately 39 parking stalls would be provided in an off -site parking garage. Street level retail, bank and restaurant uses would wrap aroulid the entire office building frontage along California Street, Colby Avenue, and Everett Avenue. Overhead canopies will provide weather protection for pedestrians using the adjacent sidewalk. A pedestrian arcade would be provided mid-olock on the east side of the office building. The covered pedestrian arcade would reflect a significant upgrade of the existing alley for pedestrian use. The proposal includes the extension of a new east -west driveway or alley extending from Wetmore to the existing alley. The city has acquired lessee's rights to lots 22, 23, and 24 of Block 625, Plat of Everett (subject to rights of Key Bank in lots 22 and 23). The city plans to purchase the underlying lessors interest on or before March 1, 1994. Twenty-four (24) feet of paving and adjacent sidewalk and landscaping improvements have been constructed on lots 23 and 24. When purchased by the City, the 24 foot wide alley dedication for the east -west