2009/03/25 Council Agenda Packet

Planning Commission Meeting October 24, 2006 Page 4 Gensler— Master Plan Retail Architect—won the leadership award last year—they have 700 architects and 600 of those are LEED Certified. Mithun — Local Residential Architect. They won the local green builders award. Some of their projects include High Point in Seattle, REI in Lake Union, and Island Wood in Bainbridge, an educational center for'students. Watershed GeoEngineers Mark Wolken — Permits Next Steps Scoping notice was issued, Oliver McMillan is working on agreement with the City—they have an Exclusive Negotiation Agreement that expires at the end of the year, community outreach, design charette in December, permits and approvals in 2007, and the beginning of phased construction in 2008. He asked for citizens to comment on the Scope of the EIS regarding parks and recreation, cultural and historic resources, transportation, public services, utilities, geology and soils, air quality, surface water, plants and animals, and energy and natural resources. Mr. Buss, OliverMcMillan, reiterated that they would like the Riverfront development to be more than a retail center but an active location with community gathering spaces and mixed residential and retail centers. The City had the foresight to get the site ready for development since 1983-84 and they deserve a great amount of credit for getting the site prepared so this type of development can occur. There is a lot of development on Brownfields land going on around the country right now but there is no one trying to do this quality or type of project in this kind of location. In a very early meeting, they did hear some concerns from the Lowell community regarding heights on the Simpson site and currently they are talking about very low density uses there as opposed to any high or mid rise office buildings. He offered to stay after the meeting to talk to citizens and Commissioners. Citizen Comments Dave Mascarenas, 517 Laurel Drive, was at the meeting representing Public Employees from Environmental Responsibility (PEER). Everything presented at the meeting was right out of an agreement that was reached in response to a lawsuit which involved PEER, Pilchuck Audubon, and Tulalip Tribes. It took about a year to work out an agreement— he asked the developers to work with the Everett Shoreline Coalition if they anticipate any changes that need to be made to the agreement. Alex Alexander, 3914 52"d Street SE, stated that his family has lived across the River from the site since 1870 at Getchell Ranch. Because of that history he knows quite a bit about the River and what to expect in the future from the River. He stated that the project needs to be integrated with what the River wants—the River has been in charge for 15,000 years. If you do a river integrated project, you will succeed; however, if you try to go against the River—basically on your present course, most of the project will fail. The greatest flood so far was in 1990 which was measured at 33 feet. The projections have floods in a level of 35 feet there by 2012 and 38 feet by 2050. In terms of cubic feet per second the daily runoff is measured at around 16,000 cubic feet per second going by that site. In the 1990 flood, it reached 160,000 cubic feet. The flood projected for 2050 if not sooner will be well over 200,000 cubic feet which will flood the area with 4-6 feet more of water above anything that has been in that area. Plan to accommodate for that.