Garage not needed at Key Bank site

I was at the Everett City Council meeting Wednesday and sat through the discussion, reported in Thursday’s paper, about Art Skotal’s plan for the city of Everett to tear down the former Key Bank building and build a parking garage at Wetmore and California. In reporting that the City Council rejected the plan, The Herald failed to mention that the consultant working on the city’s downtown parking study discouraged use of that site, and that there is an existing 374-stall private parking garage across the street from it that is at 68 percent of capacity, and that Mr. Skotdal’s plan for public financing applies just as well to other sites. These were important points and I’m surprised your article didn’t mention them.

Annie Lyman

Everett