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January 28, 2005 <br />Planning Commission <br />Department of Planning and Community Development <br />City of Everett <br />2930 Wetmore Ave Suite 8A <br />Everett, WA 98201 <br />To Whom It May Concern: <br />I am the remaining property owner on the Rockefeller -Oakes block. I appreciate the <br />desire for a cancer center and additional patient parking. However, many things have <br />come into play as of late, that I feel more time is needed. <br />In the past, I understand, the Hospital has tried to negotiate for grounds now owned by <br />the College, to no avail. However, I read the front page of the Everett Herald, January 20 <br />and it states County In Hunt For New College. The college in North Everett has been <br />hoping to expand into a four-year college. Possibly the reason for its reluctance to part <br />with its present property, should the four year college in North Snohomish County <br />become a reality, the Everett College property may become available to the Hospital, in <br />as much as it may abandon its plan for a four year college. <br />That medical care for cancer patients should at all times be available, is of course, a must. <br />But the present plan for 10 to 20 years shows very little faith in the present Cancer <br />Research. That cancer will be treated ten years from now as it is today is unreal. There <br />were also plans expressed for a cancer center to be built forty years from now. Forty <br />years from now? Cancer may not even exist forty years from now. To plan so far into the <br />future is ludicrous, where any disease is concerned. <br />There is also the problem of an aging hospital. To plan around Everett General in a <br />spreading plan that requires tearing down the old Colby Hospital, removing the Wetmore <br />parking lot, and removing the soil so as to bring it to ground level with the play field, <br />tearing down the parking garage and removal of the Donovan Allen homes East of the <br />Hospital grounds to build a parking lot, and later a Cancer center possibly. One that <br />science may have long surpassed. A center built 20 years ago, will in all probability be <br />obsolete, it will no longer serve the educated system. Surrounding an aging hospital with <br />new centers that do not relate to the old Hospital, could create morepproblems for the city <br />that we have today. And it may very well come. - <br />