Seattle center redevelopment

Armory Exterior Improvements. The removal of awnings on the west side of the building and a fresh new paint job as approved by the Landmarks and Preservation Board have been completed. Signage will also be updated. Campus ADA Improvements. Monorail Upgrades. Monorail work is being performed in anticipation of the opening of Climate Pledge Arena at Seattle Center.

It also upgrades outdoor spaces on the site and signage. Transportation plays an important role in the success of an event facility of this scale. Arena negotiations laid the way for a focus on improvements in mobility in the north downtown area, while putting in place specific plans to mitigate transportation impacts of arena activities on surrounding neighborhoods.

It sounds like a negative for neighborhoods. How can we change that? This means houses on big lots , and square feet. Some smaller lots are grandfathered in, and there are a lot of bigger lots. This results in an all-or-nothing development pattern. Nice old houses , that could easily be converted to an apartment, get torn down because the multi-family land is extremely valuable being so rare.

You have small apartments that suffer the same fate. Meanwhile, just a block away, you might have a rundown house on a big lot that gets replaced by a McMansion. What is also common in some parts of town like the area mentioned here is that the single family lots are really big, well beyond the even generous minimums.

Typically these are old farm lots, even though they are clearly part of the city now. But they sit inside the single-family zone, so the only thing that can be developed is new houses. So the developer splits the lot into as many pieces as they can, and then builds big houses.

If you have a 25, square foot lot, you get three lots with three houses the minimum lot size is 7, square feet. This house , for example, was part of an old lot about that size. If you peruse the King County parcel viewer , you can find quite a few large lots like that.

These will likely suffer the same fate torn down, with only a handful of McMansions going up. It has been used in other places, and it results in the same thing: high housing prices. That same lot where three houses went up, could have had a couple dozen town houses.

Or it could have a small apartment, with a nice courtyard. It would certainly be in keeping with the style of the neighborhood middle class, not snooty. What we need to do is keep pushing for a change of zoning to allow it. We should get rid of regulations on density as well as parking. As long as the building adheres to the same physical limits as a house e. Is that a gigantic above-ground parking garage integrated into the M2 building?

Those apartment unit to parking ratios are astounding considering they are only a couple blocks from light-rail. Yeah… I just pulled up the draft plan set for the building. Monday, 25 October, Sign in. Forgot your password? Get help. Do you want to find out how you can be involved in the redevelopment of the Seattle Center Arena?

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