Design Review: Adding Color and Costs to Housing
Over at Capitol Hill Seattle yet another example of why design review adds costs and complication to housing projects. A Department of Planning and Development representative confirmed to CHS that the developers of Viva Capitol Hill, the six-story, 105-unit mixed-use apartment building finishing construction in the triangle at 12th, E Union and Madison, has been denied a temporary […]
Look! It’s Still Happening! NIMBY Intolerance.
Well, I was going to use the word “bigotry” in the headline of this post. But that word doesn’t quite get at what’s going on in the postering campaign we first discovered was being planned about a week ago. It’s not that the word is too strong, but that current valance of the word bigotry […]
Tonight on KIRO Radio: Out of Scale? Look Across the Street!
Tonight at 7:30 I’ll be on the Jason Rantz Show broadcast on KIRO FM, 97.3 to respond to this morning’s story on microhousing. I’ll be pointing out that the microhousing being built in Eastlake is completely in scale with everything else in the neighborhood. See for yourself what the neighborhood looks like in the pictures […]
