Stories about Land Use including zoning, design review and design guidelines, and permitting.
The Roosevelt Legislative Rezone is now on the “front burner”. This is the process by which Seattle City Council will consider rezoning of blocks around the future light rail station area. Discussion of building heights for specific blocks is under great scrutiny at this time. On Monday, September 19th at …
This past week over 100 of you wrote to Mayor McGinn and other City officials to request action on the Roosevelt Legislative Rezone process, and on Friday, he wrote back. If you didn’t receive a direct response, you can find the letter at this link: http://hosted.verticalresponse.com/621526/340d194bc1/317587849/8d4df55024/. Thank you again for your …
Thank you very much to all who have contacted City officials to press for completion of the Roosevelt Legislative Rezone. I’ve received copies of some of the great e-mails you’ve written. I know that they will have an effect. The good reputation of the Roosevelt/Ravenna community is burnished with each one …
It’s been a while since the last land use update. Here’s what’s going on… The “legislative rezone”, as you will recall, is a broad set of rezoning proposals for the future light rail station area in Roosevelt. The RNA submitted a detailed list of recommendations to the Department of Planning and …
I’ve just discovered an event being held at City Hall tomorrow (Thursday) at Noon where the Seattle Planning Commission is presenting their “Transit Oriented Communities” report featuring recommendations for land use planning in several neighborhoods, including Roosevelt. Ed Hewson from RDG is on the agenda. Here is a link with …
Neighbors, Only minutes ago, City Council’s Committee on the Built Environment (COBE) voted unanimously to *remove* the RDG Comp Plan amendment from further consideration on this year’s Comp Plan amendment policy docket. This is exactly what we asked them to do, and I’m thrilled to be able to share …
There are two separate events unfolding right now with respect to the Sisley properties near Roosevelt High School. One is the “contract rezone”, which was the topic of the EIS Scoping Meeting last week at Calvary. Comments on that issue are due by Aug. 4, as outlined in another recent …