4310 COLBY AVE MEDICAL ASSOCIATES 2018-01-01 MF Import

Page 2 There is a single medical suite in the building which is not rented at this time and belongs to Dr, lJilliam Salama. The occupants of this sixth suite could certainly impact the parking lot but �ur survey would suggest that theYe is more than encugh room. The next exceptional condition is that we believe our parking lot to be frequented by patients and visitors to the Everett Orthopedic & Fracture Clinic at 43rd & Hoyt and to the Colby Manor Nursing Care Center at 42nd & Colby. No vigorous efforts to date have been made to police onr parking lot and to i.ncrease the availability of parking spaces. Should parking space ever become tight, then efforts could easily be made. B. This variance is necessary for the appellant to continue to practice comfortably at thi.s site, Unfortunately the need for storage and for additional volum� for employees in the office building demands an addition to the building. I want to stress again that this addition is not to bring another practice to the oEfice building. C. Our reyuest is not based on dep�ivation of rights arising from special circumstances applying to the property. The variance request will not be detrimental to the pu6lic welfare or injurious to the properties or improvements in the vicinity. Our building partnezships submitted a nearly identical request for a parking variance at the time of this building's original construction in 1979. That variance was granted but proved not to be necessary Uecause the final size of tlie building ended up being substantially �maller than that originally designed. In 1983 we requ ested a variance for a 4,000 square-foot addition to this building ahich was granted. At that time Dr. Piarsidi ar.d his associates were planning on an addition to the building and their practice was already housed within the building. They elected to be part of a medical office building elsewhere in Everett and the expansion w��s not undertaken. As our site plan shows, parking on this site has been maximized. D. The granting of th is variance will not adversely affect the comprehensive general plan. As one can see from the supporting d�ta supplied �aith this request, th�t there is :nore than adequate parking at this site and that no new practices are being added to this building. Plantings on the site have been maximized wi.thin the constraints of parkir.g requirement in order to maintain the visual quality of the neighborhood and the building has been well maintained over the years . lJe have provided a pleasant surrounding for the existing hus stop and continue to maintain that surrounding.