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AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT THE EVERETT CITY COUNCIL hereby expresses its support for the understanding that Mayor Hansen and Snohomish County Executive Bob Drewel and their respective staffs have reached regarding master planning the Snohomish County civic complex in downtown Everett which would accommodate retaining and expanding certain of Snohomish County's governmental functions and operations, which understanding, in principle, is set forth as follows: Snohomish County will submit an application to the City of Everett's Community Development and Planning Department for a master plan of County facilities in downtown Everett. Incorporated into the master plan will be Snohomish County's proposed additions to its downtown properties including its civic complex located on existing County land between Lombard/Wetmore and Pacific/Wall, and the corner north of Wall and west of Oakes. Such additions will include: A. A general office building sized to meet the County's needs while maintaining all of the County's present downtown activities and its existing and future workforce in downtown Everett. (Estimated by the County to be office space up to 230,000 square feet in downtown Everett.) B. Expansion of the jail facilities to meet the long-term pre-adjudication needs for County inmates with a maximum of 640 pre-adjudication beds in the Oakes/Lombard and Pacific/Wall block in addition to the County's current jail facility. The master plan will recognize that Snohomish County's planning and design work on the County's general office building will commence in a timely manner with construction to begin simultaneously or earlier than the construction for the new pre-adjudication jail facilities. Further as part of the understanding, the City Council supports the Mayor's recommendation that the City's 0.85 cents sales tax on construction of a new general governmental County building in downtown Everett will be applied to permitting and other project costs. AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT THE EVERETT CITY COUNCIL hereby expresses its support for the following process to implement the understanding reached between the City and County's planning staffs, and hereby directs the Everett Planning Commission to take the following action in response to a master plan proposal by Snohomish County: The master plan will be implemented through the City's planned development overlay process. The planned development overlay process will include, but not necessarily be limited to, adjustments in current height restrictions on County-owned property in downtown Everett located between Lombard/Wetmore and Pacific/Wall, and the corner north of Wall and west of Oakes and a Snohomish County parking plan which is acceptable to the City. The design of the pre-adjudication facilities will be sensitive to the surrounding land uses and designed to complement Everett's Gateway Corridor—Pacific Avenue. 3