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4 <br />WHEREAS, at the February 16, 2010 public hearing, after taking into consideration public <br />input, the Planning Commission did recommend to City Council that the comprehensive plan <br />amendment and rezone be approved, subject to conditions stated in a development agreement <br />between the applicant and the City; and <br />WHEREAS, THE EVERETT CITY COUNCIL FINDS: <br />1. The sole purpose for the requested comprehensive. plan amendment and rezone is to allow <br />Everett Gospel Mission to use a single family residence as an office in support of its <br />Woman's and Children's shelter located in the Lowell neighborhood, which the requested <br />B-2 zone will allow, <br />2. To allow the proposed office use the City needs amend the Land Use Map of the <br />Comprehensive Plan from "1.3, Single Family Residential" to "Community Business" and to <br />rezone the single family structure from R-2 (Single Family) to B-2 (Community Business), <br />3. The public health, safety and welfare would be provided for by the proposal only if the <br />comprehensive plan amendment and rezone were implemented by a Development Agreement <br />between the City and the Gospel Mission, and <br />4. The proposed rezone promotes the best long term interest of the Everett Community only if <br />the proposal is supported through use of a development agreement that will ensure the <br />conditions specified herein will be met. <br />WHEREAS CITY COUNCIL CONCLUDES: <br />The public health, safety and welfare would be provided for by allowing the Everett Gospel <br />Mission to use the subject single family structure as an office, which would be made possible <br />if the Comprehensive Plan land use map designation is revised from Single Family (1.3) to <br />Community Business (4.4) and the property is rezoned from R-2 (Single Family) to B-2 <br />(Community Business), and if steps are taken to protect nearby homes from commercial <br />intrusion, <br />2. The proposed rezone promotes the best long term interest of the Everett Community only if <br />the proposal is supported through use of a development agreement; and <br />3. The approval as requested does not constitute a grant of special privilege to the proponent, due in part <br />to the unique nature of the requested use. <br />SK <br />-2- <br />