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- Low income rental housing assistance - $2,400,000; and - Low income rental housing production - $4,100,000. Appellants have failed to provide data or analysis, and the record does not contain, support for the position that such mitigation is reasonable under SEPA. Even if such data was available, mitigation could only address these issues to the extent the City policies will allow--within the Everett City limits. • Snohomish County's SEPA ordinance does not include a housing policy. Nor does the record indicate that any other SEPA ordinance for any other city in Snohomish County contains such a provision. • The Responsible official is required to balance his decision and to take into account environmental impacts "along with other relevant considerations or documents in making a final decision on a proposal", (WAC 197-11-448(1)). With regards to this provision of the WAC, the Responsible Official considered that the application of SEPA policies and the exercise of his substantive authority to require mitigation beyond that permitted in either the City or County SEPA ordinances would exceed his authority. • The Decision Document does contain mitigation measures related to housing including measures intended to reduce impacts by hiring locally, and $2,000,000 worth of investment tax credits which Boeing has agreed to purchase for the construction of low income housing (see Decision Document pp 44-46). The investment tax credit is a voluntary measure on the part of Boeing and is therefore outside of the restrictions of the City ordinance which limit mitigation to within the City boundaries. • The combined Snohomish County and the City of Everett Housing Assistance Plans estimated in 1988 that 20,795 households would be in need of rental assistance in the next three years. In Appendix J of the DEIS, page 2-16, the estimate of an additional 4,350 households in need of assistance represents only a 20 percent increase in households in need of assistance. Conclusions: • Under the provisions of the SEPA rules (WAC 197-11-660(1)(a)) and the City's own ordinance, the City can impose mitigation regarding housing only to the extent necessary to mitigate adverse impacts within the boundaries of the City of Everett. • The record contains no factual basis to support the assertion that the Boeing expansion "...would require a doubling in the size of the County's assisted housing stock for 1994". The assertion in the appeal is incorrect. The assertion presumes that all assisted housing needs will be met in Snohomish County. 59