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More work, more traffic Along with a yearlong closure of the Broadway Bridge, crews plan to replace expansion joints on a bridge over I-5. By Chris Winters Herald Writer
EVERETT — The 102-year-old Broadway Bridge is expected to be closed next month for a year-long replacement project.
The city of Everett already has marked out a detour route to try and keep the traffic moving. But drivers in and around Everett are going to need to get creative, because another project on the horizon may just add
to regional traffic woes. The state Department of Transportation is planning to replace the bridge expansion joints on I-5 over the Ebey, Union and Steamboat sloughs, between downtown Everett and Marysville. That project will start in late summer or early fall, department spokeswoman Kris
Olsen said. The joints, which allow the bridge to expand and contract in response to changes in temperature and traffic volume, are 20-30 years old and are at the end of their lifespans, Olsen said. “They are cracking, the seals See TRAFFIC, back page, this section
Counting on an end Annual tally’s goal is to find homes for everyone living on the streets
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Annie Gjesvold sits on the sidewalk where she spent the night near the Everett Gospel Mission on Thursday morning in Everett. Gjesvold took part in the Point in Time survey annually administered by volunteers. Memory Meader (right), who works at Catholic Community Services, asks questions and offers services during the one-day census of people who identify as having no permanent housing.
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EVERETT — Few people expect that their lives will ever take a turn that leads them to sleeping on the sidewalk covered with a blanket, or finding shelter in a cold, damp, shadowed corner under a freeway overpass. Sometimes it begins with an injury that leads to the loss of a job. For others, like a 43-year-old
woman walking along the side of Eclipse Mill Road on Thursday morning, it was the end of a 14-year relationship that she said involved both drug use and domestic violence. As she told her story of not only losing her housing but her children, too, she broke down in tears. She was one of the people found by volunteers who fanned out across the county Thursday for a 12-hour search for people
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who are homeless, called the Point in Time survey. Volunteers asked each person a short list of questions, such as how long they had been homeless. Then the volunteers informed them of where they could get help finding temporary housing, mental health services and drug and alcohol counseling. The annual count is at best an estimate, a one-day census of
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people willing to identify themselves as having no permanent housing. “A lot of homeless people want to stay hidden,” said Robin Hood, a grants manager for the county’s Human Services department. In Everett, surveyors Memory Meader and Kirsten Murray,
1975, anyone who entered would have been required to wear a white belt and white shoes and possess a valid AARP card. Legal nightmares: Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay’s on the hook for $1 million in rent for the building that houses one of his restaurants, after a judge rejected
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the shouty Brit’s claim that his father-in-law forged his name (Short Takes, Page D6). Covering the debt shouldn’t be a problem for Ramsay. He just needs to launch another half-dozen reality shows on Fox. World’s poor demand Windows 7: The lives of Sports . . . . . . . C1 Stocks . . . . . . .A8
Everett rejects county plans A new, $162 million courthouse could be in jeopardy unless officials can resolve concerns about a lack of adequate parking. By Noah Haglund Herald Writer
EVERETT — City officials have deemed Snohomish County’s plans for a new courthouse inadequate and sent a rejection letter to that effect last week. Parking worries threaten to put the $162 million project on hold and blow through its budget. The city is pushing for hundreds of additional spaces. Until county staff can answer the city’s questions, there’s little to talk about, Mayor Ray Stephanson said Thursday. “Once that work is done, then we can take that discussion to the elected officials,” Stephanson said. The mayor’s office this week canceled an upcoming meeting with counterparts in county government. Everett’s planning department issued a notice of incomplete application Jan. 16 in response to environmental impact documents the county submitted a month earlier. The letter is the most recent signal of the city’s dissatisfaction with the new building’s parking provisions. The City Council passed an emergency ordinance Dec. 24 that blocked the project unless the county provides at least 300 parking stalls. The requirement is based on one parking stall per 800 square feet of interior space and applies to all future government buildings in the downtown area. The county designed the building with 30 secure parking spaces for judges and other officials, reasoning that the employees in the current courthouse already have the ability to park in the county’s underground garage nearby. From their point of view, it simply replaces 1967 building that would later be demolished. The new building’s footprint, however, would take out about See COURTHOUSE, Page A2
poor people around the world will improve more in the next 15 years than at any time in history, says the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (Page A7). Poor people’s lives are expected to continue improving, as long as they don’t try to use Windows 8 on a cheap laptop.
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