I guess we're not making our point clear enough, we're not against redeveloping this building. Let me repeat, 'we're not against redeveloping this building'.
Put in multi-family housing and put in some good retailers. However, as it stands this is not a well-designed building and we are going to fight to make sure that the city applies the existing design guidelines it has on the books to reduce the bulk of this project.
Anyway, the blog post does bring up a good point about the lack of affordable housing in our neighborhood. And there really isn't any plan (whether private or governmental to address that).
Unfortunately though, this project isn't going to help with any affordable inventory - condo units will be priced at $475 a sq. ft. and will range from 580-1240 sq feet so that amounts to $275,500 - $589,000 at a minimum.
Here's the Seattle Weekly Blog post.
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Seattle Weekly Blog says, "Wedgwoodn't you lighten up?"
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Actually, speaking for those of us who raised our families here and have lived in Wedgwood over 20 years? We ARE against the redevelopment of the building. We are FOR preserving the character of the single-family neighborhoods in Seattle, which made the city environment what it is today.
Really, you don't want to change anything? But done right this could be a good thing for the community.
I am yet a different anonymous! I live in what will be the shadow of the building and I support mixed redevelopment on the side. Overall it is good and will help Wedgwood -- it just needs to be a little smaller. Frankly, while the architecture is not the most innovative in town, it looks to be far less ugly than similar projects in Seattle.
Picking up on something that was said at the meeting, According to the City of Seattle's Land Use Code the following are allowed uses for that site.
Bus Barn, work release building, light manufacturing, vehicle repair shop (Midas, etc) Boat Dealership, Theatre (ie, screaming kids waiting in line for a saturday movie) A food processing facility, AN ADULT CABARET !!!!, How about a McDonalds or Burger King with a 40' tall sign.
I'll take the condo building.
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