Community Meeting Thursday On Future Plans To Help Unhoused At Catholic Church Site On Cedar Street In North Everett

On Thursday night (June 29th) at 7:00 PM there will be a public meeting at Hensen Hall at 2619 Cedar Street in north Everett, Washington where the community can learn about plans for the Catholic Church Site.

The City of Everett has suggested the location as a proposed Day Center for the unhoused.

Topics to be discussed include security and the City of Everett’s recently passed “Buffer Zones” that would provide two-block areas around service providers where it would be against city-ordinance to sit or lie in areas designated by the Mayor. Click the link below to read the full ordinance.
Chapter 9.54 Everett Municipal Code – Buffer Zones for Service Providers and High Impact areas in Everett, Washington

The meeting is being hosted by Our Lady of Hope Parish. Staffers from the City of Everett, Mercy Watch and others were in attendance to answer questions and also take ideas and suggestions at an earlier meeting June 8th. They are also expected to be at Thursday’s meeting.

Pre-registration is requested and you can do that at this link.

Last year the parishes of Immaculate Conception and Our Lady of Perpetual Help were merged to form a new parish known as Our Lady of Hope. Our Lady of Hope Parish operates on what was the Immaculate Conception campus on Hoyt and most Masses are celebrated there. The combination of the two parishes has created a surplus of property for the Catholic Church and an opportunity that many say can help address street-level issues in Everett. Now the Archdiocese of Seattle is considering what to do with the property on Cedar Street. Our Lady of Perpetual Help was formed in 1891 and the Church on Cedar street was built in 1925. It currently serves as a Chapel.

Right now this is still an information session and no final plans have been set. That earlier public meeting was attended by a couple-dozen people, and this is another opportunity for more folks to learn about the issues and share ideas.

Everett City Council President Brenda Stonecipher and Mayor Cassie Franklin have both called for more services to be put up in each of the Everett City Council’s five districts to address the multiple problems of mental health, homelessness, drug addiction and crime that have been adversely affecting all parts of Everett, Washington for the last several years.