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Deb Williams <br /> From: adam.beck@vigormarine.com <br /> Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2012 2:44 PM <br /> To: Deb Williams <br /> Subject: COE Autogenerated:Commments on proposed zoning for former Kimberly Clark property <br /> Importance: High <br /> Email form title: Contact Email form <br /> To: DWilliams@ci.everett.wa.us <br /> From: adam.beck@vigormarine.com <br /> Email: adam.beck@vigormarine.com <br /> Subject: Commments on proposed zoning for former Kimberly Clark property <br /> Body: Council Members: I'm writing to express Vigor Industrial's support for the Everett Planning <br /> Commission's recommended zoning for the former Kimberly Clark site at the Port of Everett. The commission <br /> recommends retaining the site's existing M-2 maritime industrial zoning. This zoning allows for family-wage <br /> maritime industries such as ours, along with other water-dependent businesses, to locate and expand in Everett. <br /> Retaining the M-2 designation will help Everett preserve and further benefit from the city's well developed, <br /> deep-water industrial infrastructure. Our facility is adjacent to the Kimberly Clark site. Our craftspeople earn <br /> anywhere from$40,000 to $80,000 a year on average. We provide services for vessels including tugs,ferries <br /> and fishing boats, along with significant projects for the Navy and Coast Guard. We do this work in Everett <br /> because the area offers deep water access and excellent industrial infrastructure. We cannot do this work <br /> without these assets. Across the West Coast, cities are losing this irreplaceable industrial infrastructure to <br /> development for non-water dependent light industrial, commercial and residential uses. While such <br /> development is clearly beneficial to cities,these types of activities can be sited nearly anywhere. Water- <br /> dependent heavy industrial uses, on the other hand,must be located in places with deepwater access. As other <br /> West Coast communities make the mistake of erasing their industrial waterfront infrastructure,Everett's M-2 <br /> zoned land will only become more attractive and valuable to water-dependent industries. If Everett joins the <br /> growing number of cities turning waterfront into office parks,that valuable asset and the associated family- <br /> wage industrial jobs will be gone forever. Preserving this land for water-dependent industrial use is the city's <br /> chance to hold on to an increasingly scarce and valuable resource: a working industrial waterfront. Thank you <br /> for considering our comments during your public process. Sincerely,Adam Beck Director of Regional <br /> Operations Vigor Marine <br /> 1 <br />