Slog - Comments on Go West, Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/go_west_seattle Three proposed developments are up for reviews today, and they’re all in West Seattle. The first is up for an administrative design review – so there’s no public meeting – because the developer requested departures from zoning standards requiring a front yard setback. Here’s the plan for Beach Drive SW. The proposal is for one single-family residence and one duplex townhouse with surface-level parking. More info is over here. California Giants Next on the docket is an early design guidance meeting for two mixed-use buildings that would contain 200 condos and retail on the ground floor. It's smack dab in... Copyright 2008 Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:05:23 -0800 Fri, 11 Apr 2008 21:51:57 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Cato the Younger Younger I could not agree more about West Seattle by the Junction, since the dealership went under that entire area looks damn nasty! Amazing how much space a car lot really does take up.

I say get rid of ALL the dealerships in Seattle!!

]]> Cato the Younger Younger http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/go_west_seattle#c995498 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/go_west_seattle#c995498 Boom Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:24:06 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle The main problem is that we never built the monorail out to there, so the increased transit is mostly missing in that TOD zone.

At some point we might need to at least get light rail out to there, although BRT might work in the INTERIM (not long term).

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/go_west_seattle#c995521 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/go_west_seattle#c995521 Boom Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:39:09 -0800 Comment by kerri harrop Developers are fucking up my neighborhood, tearing down charming mid-century Westside structures and replacing them with god-awful townhomes. Four such sites within three blocks of my home in this past year alone.

Until the city figures out what is going to happen with the viaduct, I say no more West Seattle construction. Traffic across the bridge already sucks enough. More people are just going to make it worse.

NIMBY? Yup.

]]> kerri harrop http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/go_west_seattle#c995558 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/go_west_seattle#c995558 Boom Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:54:53 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle Well, since you're zoned for higher density, looks like your NIMBY won't stop the changes.

Know your zoning codes. Even single-family housing zones permit breaking former two lot single family one story house construction into two story duplex.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/go_west_seattle#c995577 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/go_west_seattle#c995577 Boom Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:14:09 -0800 Comment by Mr. X @3, not NIMBY at all, just concurrency.

(For those who don't eat land use and planning minutiae up, concurrency is a critical growth management principle that density advocates have apparently forgotten that says that, even in Seattle, you have to have the transportation (and other) infrastructure in place to support new development).

]]> Mr. X http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/go_west_seattle#c995585 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/go_west_seattle#c995585 Boom Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:19:52 -0800 Comment by Mr. X ...oops, hit post too soon - last sentence should have read "...in place to support new development within 6 years of it occurring."

]]> Mr. X http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/go_west_seattle#c995588 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/go_west_seattle#c995588 Boom Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:21:19 -0800 Comment by notonthehill West Seattle really needs a Quizno's and a large Petco (RIP The Charleston)....

]]> notonthehill http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/go_west_seattle#c995591 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/go_west_seattle#c995591 Boom Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:23:41 -0800 Comment by Cale right on west seattle! now for some light rail over there...

]]> Cale http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/go_west_seattle#c995595 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/go_west_seattle#c995595 Boom Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:27:59 -0800 Comment by lorax Traffic across the bridge sucks because not enough people take the bus. Solution: more people take the bus (or the water taxi). Let's not road-build our way to density. (As if we could.)

]]> lorax http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/go_west_seattle#c995614 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/go_west_seattle#c995614 Boom Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:39:07 -0800 Comment by MacJ @7 West Seattle needs neither a Quizno's (Husky Deli) or Petco wasting valuable community business space. They should find a building in Westwood Village or something. It's ugly in the Junction, and it'll be ugly on Charlestown.

]]> MacJ http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/go_west_seattle#c995766 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/go_west_seattle#c995766 Boom Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:58:34 -0800 Comment by JW @10: I think #7 was perhaps being facetious.

Petco is supposedly moving to a planned new building where Charlestown Cafe is currently, displacing many fans of whatever it is they serve.

And there's some rather justified fear that the only businesses who can afford the rent in these shiny new mixed use buildings are the likes of Quiznos.

]]> JW http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/go_west_seattle#c995772 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/go_west_seattle#c995772 Boom Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:16:14 -0800 Comment by Gomez I don't care if it's incorporated: if I have to cross a separated-grade bridge to get there, it's a suburb. (And no, Spokane Street doesn't count.)

]]> Gomez http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/go_west_seattle#c995773 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/go_west_seattle#c995773 Boom Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:20:16 -0800 Comment by notonthehill @10 - It was a sarcastic joke. I do agree with you 100%.

@11
The Charleston was a restaurant that served awesome breakfast and affordable homestyle dinners. My gf went there alot and we recently tried to go there for breakfast only to find it closed due to construction of a colossal Petco.

]]> notonthehill http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/go_west_seattle#c996198 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/go_west_seattle#c996198 Boom Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:56:38 -0800 Comment by notonthehill @10 - It was a sarcastic joke. I do agree with you 100%.

@11
The Charleston was a restaurant that served awesome breakfast and affordable homestyle dinners. My gf went there alot and we recently tried to go there for breakfast only to find it closed due to construction of a colossal Petco.

]]> notonthehill http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/go_west_seattle#c996253 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/go_west_seattle#c996253 Boom Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:36:11 -0800 Comment by west seattle blog Correcting some of what's above in the comments ... The Charlestown is currently closed because of a fire in February; it's slated to reopen as soon as repairs are complete, a month or so. The Petco proposal for the site is dead, though some sort of redevelopment is inevitable. Our list of site categories (down the right sidebar) has a Charlestown Cafe archive as well as a development archive where you can read the latest on both topics until your eyes start to swim. We're typing as fast as we can.

]]> west seattle blog http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/go_west_seattle#c996806 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/go_west_seattle#c996806 Boom Fri, 11 Apr 2008 21:51:57 -0800