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• :. .r!" /1P(. 1 RESOLUTION NO. 5084 A Resolution of the City Council of the City of Everett, Washington, Concurring with the Public Facilities District's Selection of a Location for a Special Events Facility. WHEREAS, the City Council for the City of Everett, Washington has adopted Ordinance No. 2511-01, effective April 10, 2001, determining that it is in the best interests of the City and its citizens to form a public facilities district to undertake, in conjunction with the City, the design, construction, operation, promotion and financing of a regional center that will promote economic development, provide needed public facilities to serve local and regional business, community, family entertainment, youth recreation and athletic organizations; and WHEREAS, Ordinance No 2511-01 created a Public Facilities District pursuant to Ch. 35.57 RCW known as the Everett Public Facilities District; and WHEREAS, the Everett Public Facilities District undertook a process to evaluate the best site for the Special Events Facility and as part of that procedure reviewed and considered: the Indoor Arena Feasibility Analysis, Final Report, January 2001, completed by Brailsford & Dunlavey; the City of Everett's Special Events Center Feasibility Committee Report, March 5, 2001; the Special Events Arena Transportation Analysis and Evaluation, by Perteet Engineering, Inc., April 2001; the City of Everett's Special Events Facility Feasibility Analysis by Shockey/Brent, Inc., May 14, 2001; the Everett Growth Management Comprehensive Plan and Environmental Impact Statement of January 1994; the Draft and Final Downtown Core Subarea Plan and Draft Environmental Impact Statement prepared by the City of Everett, May 27, 1998; staff and consultant presentations on the available alternative sites for the Special Events Center; public comments with respect to site selection for the center, including those received at the Public Hearing held May 17, 2001; the environmental impacts of development of the Everett Special Events Center on the considered sites, as disclosed and discussed in the Draft Supplemental Environment Impact Statement for the Everett Special Events Center issued June, 2001, and Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement including especially the parking, traffic and historic impacts; the financial, economic and social impacts of its decision; the consequences of displacement of people, businesses and buildings on those displaced and the community; the benefits of the Everett Special Events Center on each of the alternative sites to the community; and the public interest and welfare; and WHEREAS, on July 24, 2001, the Public Facilities District adopted Resolution No. 24-01 making findings regarding Site 5 and its suitability for the Special Events Facility and selecting Site 5 as the best site for the Special Events Facility. Some of the findings read as follows: