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Staff recommends adding Colby corridor to Everett’s 'stay-out-of-drug-areas' map

6489373 · October 9, 2025
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Summary

City staff presented data and recommended adding Colby Avenue (Pacific to the 3600 block, two blocks east/west) to Everett’s designated SOTA (Stay Out of Drug Areas) zones; council will consider action in two weeks.

City staff on Oct. 8 recommended expanding Everett’s Stay Out of Drug Areas (SOTA) designations to include a stretch of Colby Avenue from Pacific to the 3600 block, with two blocks of buffer on either side.

Angela (staff lead) and law enforcement presented substance-use calls, drug and narcotics arrests, and overdose incidents covering Sept. 2023–Sept. 2025. The material showed 66 drug/narcotics arrests in the proposed area during that period and multiple overdose incidents, and…

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