2010/11/03 Council Agenda Packet

Everett City Council September.29,2010 Page 3 Further, "Existing public access shall not be eliminated unless the applicant shows that there is no feasible alternative and replaces the public access at another location". Finally and perhaps most importantly, the Public Access Element of the Everett Shoreline Master Program charges the City Council and other officials with upholding the following policy: 15. Public access provided by street-ends, utility corridors, and public rights-of-way should be addressed in public access plans and should be preserved, maintained and improved. A copy of Everett Shoreline Master Plan Figure 4.16 is enclosed for your reference, showing the street end at 11th and its unique location along Grand Avenue, with no other street-ends existing North of that point along Grand, with the exception of the obstructed.view at 10`h Street. City of Everett Real Property Manager Mike Palascio advises that the City may consider requiring maintenance of a 20' "view corridor" as a condition of vacating the existing 80' easement. Apparently, a purchaser is interested in buying the lot at 1120 Grand and building into the street-end now owned by the City, if the petition is granted. As the enclosed photographs demonstrate, vacating the easement and reducing the view corridor at all would be an impermissible diminishment of a street-end public access, • • contrary to EMC 33D.080. The 80' view corridor should be maintained consistent with the goals, objectives and policies of the Public Access Element of the City's Shoreline Master Plan and should not be exchanged for money, especially where no other street-end public access exists north of 1 lt . Especially not in a real estate market that has widely depressed property values and would greatly reduce the revenue to be generated from a private sale at appraised value. 1 5 2 99999 00 9293104(SNP)