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Robert F. Zane <br />Vice President -Real Estate Operations <br />November 6, 2008 <br />Allan Griffen <br />Director, Planning and Community Development Responsible Official <br />City of Everett <br />2930 Wetmore Avenue, Suite 8-A <br />Everett, WA 98201 <br />Re: Mitigated Determination of Non -Significance — CEMEX SEPA08-042 <br />Dear Mr. Griffen: <br />One Campbell Place, MS 200 <br />Camden, NJ 08103 <br />856.968.4411 <br />856.968.2894 Fax <br />robert-zane@campbellsoup.com <br />This letter provides the comments of the Campbell Soup Company and its affiliate, StockPot, <br />Inc., on the City's proposed Mitigated Determination of Non -Significance for the <br />Comprehensive Plan map amendment and rezone of the 118 acre CEMEX site as referenced <br />above. <br />StockPot, Inc. owns and operates a 220,000 square foot state-of-the-art culinary campus located <br />at 1200 Merrill Creek Pkwy just a few thousand feet from the northeast corner of the CEMEX <br />site which represents an investment of nearly $100 million. <br />When StockPot developed its culinary campus in 2005, it anticipated that. the CEMEX site would <br />eventually be developed pursuant to its current industrial zoning. The proposed Comprehensive <br />Plan map amendment and rezone significantly changes how the CEMEX site will be developed <br />by allowing nearly 1200 housing units and 100,000 square feet of commercial use in place of <br />most of the anticipated industrial development. For an industrial facility — even a modern and <br />very clean industrial facility such as the StockPot Culinary Campus -- having residential and <br />commercial neighbors can be substantially more challenging than having other industrial <br />facilities nearby. The City's Industrial Land Use Policies 2.3.1 (which directs the City to <br />redesignate industrial land where compatibility between industrial land uses and more sensitive <br />land uses are promoted) and 2.3.9 (which directs the City to protect industrial land from <br />encroachment by other land uses that reduce the economic viability of industrial lands) recognize <br />this. While we acknowledge that this Comprehensive Plan amendment and rezone and the <br />subsequent residential and commercial development of the CEMEX property is not all bad for <br />DWT 120853490 0009244-000008 <br />