2008/08/20 Council Agenda Packet

In Objective 6.2.1 Ensure that the siting and construction of capital facilities considered essential public facilities are not precluded by the City's Comprehensive Plan. 2. The purpose for the requested Comprehensive Plan amendment, rezone and Master Plan revision is to allow ECC to expand in order to adapt to changing circumstances by meeting projected student population (Full Time Enrolled Students, or FTEs) growth through 2015 and beyond. This objective would in part be met if ECC and Providence Everett Medical Center were allowed to trade land as described by both institutions in their current applications. 3. The need for the proposed rezone is to help ensure ECC will meet projected FTE demand, while supporting improvements to North Broadway and the expansion area east of Broadway, while minimizing impacts to nearby residential areas. 4. To achieve the requested land use changes and related provisions, City Council needs to: a. Amend the Comprehensive Plan land use map designation in the expansion area from 1.3 (Single Family) and 4.4 (Mixed Use Commercial - Multi Family) to Colleges / Universities (2.2), and. b. Rezone the area from R-2 (Single Family) and B-2 (Community Business) to R -2-I (Institutional Overlay) and B-2-1 (Institutional Overlay) including adoption of expansion phasing maps and related standards found herein. 5. Comprehensive Plan Policy 2.11.4. calls for ECC to submit a detailed master plan that will be implemented through the use of the Institutional Overlay Zone which will provide long term predictability for the College and surrounding neighborhood. 6. Comprehensive Plan Policy 2.11.4. calls for ECC to work with the neighborhood in development of the Master Plan, that the Plan shall provide for off-street parking and access improvements, and that principal access to the campus shall be taken from Broadway and North Broadway over the long term. 7. The proposed rezone includes provisions for parking to be brought onto the campus and off of nearby surface streets in a way that will mitigate impacts to surrounding residential areas. 8. Both ECC and nearby PEMC (Providence Everett Medical Center) are essential public facilities and important institutions in their own right that need to grow within the community. It is City Council's desire that ECC and PEMC work on expansion plans with surrounding neighborhood residents and the community to accommodate both organizations. 9. City Council support for the ECC proposal is in part based on submittal of Master Plan maps including specific phases of expansion as found in Exhibits C-1, C-2, C-3, and D, which includes potential locations and numbers of buildings in the near-term and at full build out. 3 `1`6