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FINDINGS AND CONCLUSIONS: SUMMARY STATEMENT Findings: The proposed Mixed Use development known as The Colby is located in the northerly portion of the Central Business District. The B-3 Zoning District is designed to implement the City's Comprehensive Plan Goals: efficient use of land, pedestrian-oriented uses in certain areas - including this site, mixed-use development, affordable housing, use of transit and lower parking standards than required in areas to be developed less intensively than in the downtown area. This mixed-use proposal contains 3,496 square feet of retail on the first floor and includes sixteen studio, forty one-bedroom, and eight two-bedroom units in four stories above the parking. The retail area is located so it serves the pedestrian from Colby and thus meets the pedestrian-oriented goal. The project, as described by the Applicant, is designed as affordable housing, and thus meets that Comprehensive Plan Goal . In terms of transit and lower parking standards, the project, as proposed, meets the Zoning Code standards which were designed to meet the Comprehensive Plan Goal of lower parking standards. The retail space of 3 ,976 square feet does not require any off-site parking because it is less than 10 ,000 square feet. The residential tenants will be served by 32 parking spaces. This number is calculated on the zoning code basis of .5 spaces per dwelling unit in the B-3 zoning district. Currently, the Central Business District does have some vacant land, including the site of this proposal. In terms of surrounding land uses, Everett High School is located to the North, and Multi-family and Office uses are located on adjacent properties. A vacant lot is located immediately to the south. The issues raised by the Appellant all relate to parking. The Appellant appealed the three mitigation measures volunteered by the Applicant to address parking concerns raised during the SEPA comment period. Much of the B-3 area has limited time parking. However, on the east side of Colby between 25th and 26th, the block on which The Colby is proposed, there are no parking time limits. The LOJIS Corporation prepared two parking studies. One was prepared in response to the comments made during the MDNS comment period. The other was prepared in response to the appeal. The LOJIS report of September 5 describes parking in a several-block area for the evening of August 29th, the morning of August 30, and the morning and mid-day September 4. The August dates are before the school year began and the September date was at the beginning of the school year. Voluntary mitigation - provision of additional parking - is mentioned in the 8 clbyffcr