Our Wedgwood group is featured in this week's edition of the North Seattle Herald-Outlook

Check out this article in this week's North Seattle Herald-Outlook, it's a great article about our efforts to bring in a better building to our neighborhood.



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Group forms to amend condo-development plans for 35th N.E. and N.E. 86th

In an on-line community ranking of Seattle's hippest neighborhoods, Wedgwood was ranked 76th of 99. That's tragically un-hip, according to the Amazon.com poll, though some residents are far more concerned with other neighborhood issues.

Neighbors living in nearby single-family homes are more worried about an 85-unit condominium unit set to break ground next spring on the corner of 35th Avenue Northeast and Northeast 86th Street.

The four-story building would stand nearly 40 feet tall and feature nearly 6,000 square feet of retail space on the first floor.

A group of developers from Murray Franklin began its plans in December 2006 and brought the designs to the Wedgwood Community Council in January. When community member Greg Raece - who lives just a few feet away from the property - saw the plans, he almost immediately spoke up.

"It just doesn't fit in with the scheme here," said Raece, who has lived in Wedgwood since the late 1990s. "There hasn't been much development in Wedgwood over the years, and a building like this will really set the tone for all development that's to come."

Since Raece and a number of other concerned residents saw the plans in January, they have formed the Wedgwood Action Group, a group that hopes to amend the current plans, if not halt them entirely.

"It is such a big complex, and with the downward slope of the land, it could [negatively] affect the natural landscape of the area," said Raece, who also noted that the building's proximity to existing single-family housing is a major point of concern. "It's going to be 8 feet away from our houses."

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