906 SE EVERETT MALL WAY BASE FILE 2018-01-01 MF Import

Memo to Bob Landles October 21, 1987 Page 2 Implemer.tation: Revise zoning code to include prescribed standards an3 use the SEPA and site plan review processes to coordinate improvements and circulation with adjoining developments. Consider a building design review pror.ess to promote high qualiCy architectural design. Such standards mav include, but not be limited to bufEering adjacent to residential areas, landscape treatment along street frontages, landscape treatment adjacent to otlier commercial properties, internal landsca_iing, 2ntry signage and landscaping and provision of or.-site recreational amenities for employees. .i. The above two policies emphasize higlt quality design and coordination of planning for adjacent developments. The first policy mentioned above does encourage increased developme¢t entitlements in exchange for increased aesthetic amenities "substantially greater than the minimum requirements of City de�elopment codes." At this time staff is in the process of revisin� the zoning code in order to implement the policies of the Everett Comprehensive General Plan, but the revision process is nowhere near Ueing to the point where such changes would help the developer uf the immediate project to achieve his proposed building height within a time frame that meshes with his construction schedule. 4• The developer, under Section A of the Narrative Statement in the variance 3pplication states "once the code is revised to comply with the commercial land use gcals and gener.il policies, the owner and any other owuer oE commetcial (sic) :oned property would not be restricted by height for this project." This stateicent assumes thar greater height thaa currently allowed by the C-1 zor_e would be an automatically given matter of right. Folicy No. 4 oE the Re�ional Commercial Center--Office Park land use designation, under "Implementation" does unt �uarantee increased develupmenC potential for all owners of property within the designation. The policy ca113 for. making current standards stricter and allowing a deviation from the stricter staudards only for "aestlietic amenities that are suhstantially greater than tite minimum requirements of City develonment codes." 5. Under Sectio¢ B of the �Iarrative Statement, the developer states that the variance is necessary to "preserve the owner's enjoyment of a substantial properCy right that is already available per the Commercial Land Use �oals and General Policies. The revised zoning code will allo�v bonuses of height for quali:y development that surpasses the cities (sic) minimum standards in C-1 or C-2 zone. The bonuses will provide owners of C-1 zoned nroperty the right to surpass the present height limit of sisCy-five (65) feet." The developer also states that all curren[ zoning etandards have been �urpa^,sed by the proposed development.