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Expanded Environmental Checklist Prepared for the Office of Cortmunity Planning Snohomish County, Washington Proposal: Comnunity Transit Operating Base � Page 6 As a comparison, it sho:!?d be noted that the lights which will be installed at the Ka�cfi �ark ballfields will be both more int�r�se and closer to the nearest residences. These lights will only be on while the ballfields are in use; the Operating Base lights will be on all night, every night. (8) Land Use. Snohomish County' s current Paine Field Area Plan designates tne project site and surrounding area for low density residential development. The site is now zoned in the Rural Use (RU) classification. 7he Rural Use classifir_ation permits governmental facilities as Conditional Use (S.C.C. 18=64.030). The Snohomish County Airport Comnission and the County Council have adopted a long range plan for Paine Fie�d known as the Paine Field Master Plan. The plan designates the area to the south of the Cormiunity Transit site for industrial develoar�ent. Comnunity Transit's proposed use of the site as a transit base is basically industrial and would be compatible with the Paine Field Master Plan. Snohomish County' s proposed (pending) Paine Field Area Comprehensive Plan designates the project site and surrounding area for industrial prrk or light industrial development. The City of Ever•ett' s Southwest Everett Comprehensive Plan designates the area to the north and west of the project site for manufacturing and industrial uses. Both the pending Snohomish County Paine Field Area Plan and the Southwest Everett Comprehensive Plan would support the use of the site as proposed. (10) Risk of Upset. L�se of the project site as a transit 6ase involves some known risk of upset. Bus fuels, lubricants, cleaning solvents and miscellaneous flartmable materials will be both store:d and handled in substantial quantities at the site. In addition, the maintenance operation will involve the use of welding equipment, paint, and other activities that involve sane de9ree of risk. These risks, however, are largely known and the physical arrangement of the site, the equipment used, and the work procedures followed take these risks into account.