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September 3, 1998 Everett City Council Dear Council Members: 19 C�O n7 J ' .n''' 'J SEP - 81998 CITY OF EVERETT On behalf of the many residents of our Port Gardner Panning Dept. neighborhood, we wish to invite you to attend the Port Gardner Neighborhood Association meeting on September 14, 1998 at the Everett Alternatives High School cafeteria. Please see enclosed notice. Please also find attached our petition demanding that the five story three building rental development construction at the 37th and Grand site be stopped until our neighborhood has had a full, fair opportunity to be heard. We are deeply concerned that this 96 unit apartment complex being contemplated in our midst will seriously harm our single family residential neighborhood. This development would nearly double our immediate neighborhood's population and traffic. Virtua!ly none of us had any foreknowledge that such a massive housing development was being planned in our quiet unique little neighborhood. We believe that you surely must share our concerns about preserving the health, vitality and well-being of Everett's historic and longstanding neighborhoods. Many of our residents have lived here for 40, 50 and 60 years. We believe that you take to heart the issues that affect us on day to day basis and that determine the essential quality of our lives. It is far more difficult to recover a neighborhood than it is to preserve it. Surely you agree that urban single family residential neighborhoods with character and history are intricate, finely