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July 29, 2015 at 7:37 pm #818045
Josh BradleyMemberGreat, now some of these City Council candidates are arguing that the Mayor’s recommended changes to single-family zones needs to be rushed! This group includes Lisa Herbold, running here in West Seattle.
“They say Murray’s plan heads in the right direction but argue more “immediate policies” are needed.”
Ugh. This is disgusting. We like our neighborhoods. I don’t want a giant apartment complex without any parking going up next to my house. I don’t want apodments, little rat dens, in my neighborhood.
July 29, 2015 at 7:48 pm #826307
WSBKeymasterHi – I haven’t seen the plan yet but the link you have merely said they were GOING TO announce something today. Heidi @ The Stranger has written a bit more:
and it does NOT mention accelerating the single-family changes (which, as we have reported, are not universal citywide – some are rule changes but not zoning changes). Have you seen a link to the actual counterproposal? If you have, please include. I’m still looking.
-TR
July 29, 2015 at 8:25 pm #826308
Ron SwansonMemberRat dens! Glad to see our city council candidates are trying to move things in a productive direction instead of vilifying affordable housing.
July 29, 2015 at 8:43 pm #826309
JoBParticipantthey are churning so much dust it’s almost impossible to see what they actually plan to do.
it’s nice to call this all a move towards affordable housing.. but there is very little in it that’s actually affordable…
if you have enough money you can simply buy your way out of anything…
even the call to replace affordable housing units with like affordable housing units doesn’t actually specify where those units would be built.
let the buyer beware
July 29, 2015 at 9:47 pm #826310
wakefloodParticipantTrue, JoB, there’s lots of smoke but I haven’t seen a flame. Watch, something will get passed without any further public comment and we’ll all be dropping our collective jaws.
My concern is that nobody REALLY knows how to create affordable housing in places that are highly desirable WITHOUT some fairly draconian policies. Meaning rent control and inclusionary zoning over some significant portion of the city. Will it come to that here? Hard to say but let’s at LEAST vet the options and the plans pretty thoroughly for the law of unintended consequences is a bitch and you won’t be able to put the genie back in the bottle.
Here’s my issue with rezoning large swaths of Single Fam. – you get two or three houses on a lot that ALL cost at least – if not more – than the single house it replaced. That’s not affordability, that’s simply playing monopoly.
Let’s start with upzoning in currently multifamily areas and inclusionary zoning for new development and see where that gets us for a while, eh?
PS – I just drove almost the length of WS today and noticed dozens of 1&2 story apts. that could be 4 or 5 story units that would increase the inventory and potentially uninflate the rents some. But even that might need to have inclusionary/rent controlled units to make it work.
And for gawd’s sake, we’ve been stacking carts in front of the dying horse for years now without really addressing TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE BEFORE we open the floodgates again. Really? Have we learned NOTHING? I want to slap somebody/thing.
July 29, 2015 at 9:51 pm #826311
Josh BradleyMemberMayor Murray just pulled the plug on HALA’s proposed changes to single-family zoning.
http://murray.seattle.gov/murray-to-focus-on-housing-affordability-in-denser-neighborhoods/
July 29, 2015 at 10:00 pm #826312
wakefloodParticipantJuly 29, 2015 at 10:15 pm #826313
WSBKeymasterNot *all* proposed changes to SF zoning … this was the one proposed for SF outside urban villages. Upzoning of SF in urban villages, the other 6 percent, still alive so far as we see. We’re continuing to add to report with the N/R Josh has linked above.
The specific change that is being scrapped for now – at least by the mayor – remember, the council (the *new* council) has the last word – was explained in the last several paragraphs here last week, after both the first City Council discussion of the mayor’s plan and our sit-down with Cindi Barker, a West Seattleite who represented the City Neighborhood Council on the HALA committee:
-TR
July 29, 2015 at 11:56 pm #826314
TanDLParticipantNow this is what democracy looks like! :)
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