2008/08/20 Council Agenda Packet

9 WHEREAS, PEMC later proposed, and the City approved, a minor revision to the 2005 Master Plan that accelerated the construction schedule to allow completion by 2011 through the consolidation of the two replacement towers into one structure, and consolidated the required off-street parking into one structure on Block 248; and WHEREAS, in December 2006, PEMC and Everett Community College ("ECC") agreed to a purchase, sale and land exchange transaction that would allow PEMC to acquire for hospital institutional development the ECC Physical Education Property, an area of approximately 9.36 acres in size that is north and northeast of Block 248 (the "ECC Property," which is legally described in Exhibit A) in return for ECC acquiring the College Plaza Shopping Center property that is adjacent to its existing campus; and WHEREAS, PEMC applied in June 2007 for a Comprehensive Plan land use map amendment to change the ECC Property designation to Hospitals (2.4), and a Zoning map amendment to rezone such property R -2-I (Institutional Overlay),with a phased Development Master Plan for the ECC Property ("PEMC's 2007 Application"); included as part of PEMC's 2007 Application was a proposed Utility Building on the north end of the ECC Property to provide heating, cooling, medical gas and emergency power for its medical facilities on the existing Colby Campus and the ECC Property; and WHEREAS, the Department of Planning and Community Development prepared a Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement dated March 17, 2008 ("Draft SEIS") reviewing PEMC's 2007 Application, submitted the Draft SEIS for public comment,' conducted a public hearing before the Planning Commission on April 7, 2008 to receive comments on the Draft SEIS, and prepared a Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement ("Final SEIS") dated May 22, 2008, responding to all public comment letters and testimony received with respect to the Draft SEIS; and WHEREAS, the Planning Commission held a public hearing on PEMC's 2007 Application on June 2 and July 7, 2008, where public testimony was received along with presentations by the Planning Department and PEMC; and WHEREAS, Everett Municipal Code (EMC) Chapter 19.33B allows the institutional overlay zone to be established in conjunction with a master plan specifying the proposed uses of the property, development standards and addressing other factors; and WHEREAS, EMC Chapter 19.3313 provides for zones which allow hospital institutional uses such as those proposed by PEMC to develop in accordance with standards 2 3*�