Design Review tomorrow; The Kenney’s proposal online today

Tomorrow night, the Southwest Design Review Board is scheduled to meet at the Madison Middle School library, with two projects to review, including the $150 million redevelopment proposal for The Kenney in Fauntleroy. Design proposals are often made available online before DRB meetings, and we wanted to let you know that the presentation The Kenney will make tomorrow night has just been posted. See it here; it’s shorter than most of these “packets” — six pages, showing five possible configurations of the project – one that The Kenney showed as its “preferred alternative” at the October 23 meeting (WSB coverage here), one that would be “code compliant” (not requiring zoning changes or other “departures”), one that is self-explanatorily titled the “Saving Seaview Alternative” (that’s the historic Kenney building with the cupola), one called the “L3 Perimeter Alternative Plan” (subtitled as “permitting better transition to adjacent single-family structures,” and finally the “December 18 preferred plan” (shown above; tallest structure would be 5 stories, west-east wing in the middle of the campus). Again, you can get a closer look at that, and all five versions, here. The Kenney is on tomorrow night’s agenda at 8 pm, following a 6:30 pm review for 4502 42nd SW (as reported here, with links to the previous review as well as the new presentation). Here’s a map to Madison MS. And you can see all WSB coverage of The Kenney’s redevelopment plan (dating back to our first in-depth preview four months ago) archived here.

1 Reply to "Design Review tomorrow; The Kenney's proposal online today"

  • peg staeheli December 27, 2008 (12:41 pm)

    Improved information however still lacking:
    -potential elevations (heights)of roof line. 4 stories along California with a pitched roof could be 50 feet high so having some actual references of height from existing ground plane is important.
    – setback information from the property line is not provided on all view. This is important to understand the building massing since the adjacent right of ways are narrower than typical. If they are increasing density they should be required to dedicate additional right of way in order to allow planting strips and 6 foot sidewalks.
    -information on street widths required to meet the increased density. They show a partially widened street but this half block configuration is not typical in Seattle and it does not resolve the sidewalk connections.
    -traffic report?? this is needed to give indication of required street width to support the doubling of units and vehicles for the additional apartments
    -information on existing trees and Seattle’s Tree Ordinance

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