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• ORDINANCE NO. 2232-97 An Ordinance Amending Ordinance No. 1671-89, as amended, by Rezoning the Everett Community College Main Campus Site from R-1 and R-2 to R-2 I (Residential - Institutional) and Adopting a MasterPlan for the Everett Community College Campus. WHEREAS, Everett Community College (ECC) is an institution of higher learning which is located in a residential neighborhood with residential zoning; and WHEREAS, ECC has been operating continuously in this location since 1958 and has expanded occasionally as it has been able to obtain State funding for on-site improvements; and WHEREAS, on street parking by college students and staff has created long standing concerns in the surrounding neighborhood regarding insufficient off-street parking capacity; and WHEREAS, at the time of its last previous expansion,the City of Everett advised ECC that there would be no further land use approvals for expansion of buildings or facilities unless a master plan is approved by the City which contains a long term plan of future expansion and improvements to reduce on-street parking impacts caused by student and staff vehicles; and WHEREAS, ECC proposes to expand east of the existing campus to construct a new Instructional Technology Center building and additional off-street parking for both the new building and to reduce the existing on-street parking impacts caused by student and staff vehicles; and WHEREAS, the City Council approved an amendment to the Land Use Element of the Comprehensive Plan in 1996 which authorized the expansion of ECC into the next block east of the existing campus, giving ECC the following specific direction: Everett Community College shall work with the neighborhood in the development of the detailed master plan. The master plan shall provide for off-street parking and access improvements, with the principal access to the campus on Broadway (not North Broadway), which reduces the use of on-street parking by college students and staff, shall provide for the safety of school children walking to the adjacent Whittier Elementary School campus, shall include measures to direct college traffic away from the residential neighborhood, shall integrate public transit improvements to the greatest extent possible, shall provide for efficient on-site pedestrian and vehicular circulation, and shall include landscaping along street frontages and within parking lots that meet City standards. ; and WHEREAS,the Everett Zoning Code provides for an Institutional Overlay Zone which allows institutional uses such as ECC to develop in accordance with standards established through a public review process rather than the standards applicable in the underlying zone; and