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January 29, 2014 at 12:51 am #610327
MellyMelParticipantI admit, I am not as involved as I should be regarding the various land use development issues West Seattle faces. I am trying to learn more.
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Can folks help me compile a list of the groups that are involved in development struggles? I feel like there are many each set up to deal with a very specific problem. I guess I am excluding the neighborhood associations. Here is what I have so far:
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West Seattle specifically
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N.E.R.D (Neighbors Encouraging Reasonable Development)
Involved with a particular development on Avalon Way
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Benchview group
http://benchviewblog.wordpress.com
Was involved with a particular development in that neighborhood
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The Morgan Neighbors
mailing list?
Involved with a particular development of a 30-unit building in the 6900 block of California
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Alki Neighborhoods for Sensible Growth
http://www.whereiamnow.net/p/alki-rowhouse-controversy.html
Involved with a particular development of a Alki 11 rowhouse project MUP 3014675
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Getting It Right For West Seattle
http://gettingitrightforwestseattle.com/
Involved with the particular development of the Weingarten Megaproject on SW Corner of Fauntleroy & Alaska
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Groups outside of WS
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Seattle Speaks Up
http://seattlespeaksup.wordpress.com/
Capital Hill based group challenging height increases on LR1,2,3 zones
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One Home Per Lot
Against “lot splitting” that allows multiple homes on what was formerly a single lot
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Smart Growth Seattle
http://www.smartgrowthseattle.org/
Pro increased density group (an industry group, with a paid executive director, not a grass-roots group)
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Reasonable Density Seattle
http://reasonabledensityseattle.wordpress.com/
Specifically challenging microhousing/apodments
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January 29, 2014 at 1:07 am #803762
WSBKeymasterUnfortunately many of the neighbor coalitions that spring up to deal with a specific development don’t coalesce around a public website … Benchview, though, did/does have one:
http://benchviewblog.wordpress.com
The Morgan Neighbors who have been working on the 30-unit building in the 6900 block of California have a mailing list, I think.
Neighborhood councils do sometimes get involved. The one most involved lately – especially in trying to help educate interested residents about how the processes work/don’t work – is the Morgan Community Association, http://www.morganjunction.org
Of those you have listed – SGS is an industry group, with a paid executive director, not a grass-roots group. Doesn’t invalidate their work or mission – but just so you know, since the others are all grass roots.
Good luck! – TR
January 29, 2014 at 1:20 am #803763
MellyMelParticipantThanks! Edited first post to add info.
January 29, 2014 at 1:28 am #803764
DianeParticipantSmart Growth Seattle is a paid lobbyist group, paid by developers that all the other groups are fighting; it’s like the tobacco companies, that make up a cool sounding friendly name; this group is opposite of smart growth
January 29, 2014 at 6:27 am #803765
CeeBeeParticipantAnother place you can plug in is the Neighborhood Planning Committee of the City Neighborhood Council (CNC). We are chartered as a citizen based group to advise the city on policy issues around neighborhood planning, and that often includes land use issues. You can contact me at cbarker@qwest.net for more information, we meet monthly.
January 29, 2014 at 11:53 pm #803766
DianeParticipanthttp://www.djc.com/news/ae/12061762.html
January 28, 2014
Valdez to head smart growth group
By JOURNAL STAFF
SEATTLE — Smart Growth Seattle announced that Roger Valdez will be its new director.
Valdez helped found Smart Growth Seattle a year ago with Blueprint Capital, a local real estate investment trust.
have to pay to read the whole story)
wasn’t Roger already the director?
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