2008/08/20 Council Agenda Packet

5 ORDINANCE NO. An Ordinance Approving an Amendment to the Land Use Policies and Land Use Map of the Comprehensive Plan from "College" (2.2) to "Hospital" (2.4), and a Rezone from R-2 (Single Family) to R -2-I (Institutional Overlay), Including Adoption of a Master Plan for the Providence Everett Medical Center Expansion on the Everett Community College Property WHEREAS, the City adopted a new Comprehensive Plan in August, 1994, in conformance with the Washington State Growth Management Act, RCW Chapter 36.70A; and WHEREAS, the Growth Management Act allows for local comprehensive plans to be amended on an annual basis and requires the City to update its Comprehensive Plan at regular intervals; and WHEREAS, Providence Everett Medical Center ("PEMC") is a hospital and medical center located in a residential neighborhood in north Everett and has been operating continuously at this location since 1924; and WHEREAS, PEMC applied in 2004 and was granted in 2005, pursuant to Ordinance No. 2850-05, a Comprehensive Plan land use map amendment expanding its Colby Campus Hospital (2.4) designation to include an additional City block (Block 248), rezoning its entire Colby Campus to R -2-I (Institution Overlay), and approving a phased Development Master Plan for its Colby Campus; and WHEREAS, the Council, in its Ordinance approving the 2005 Master Plan, also amended the Comprehensive Plan to require that "any future [PEMC] expansions must use existing hospital properties more intensively, excepting transitional buffer area, or extend from Block 248 to the north and northeast;" and .7 WHEREAS, the 2005 Master Plan provided for construction of the Cancer Center to the north of the existing hospital, the development of additional off-street parking and the development of two new replacement hospital towers, with construction to take place through 2015;