Talking townhouse design (and more), two years later

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It’s just a couple months shy of two years since Councilmember Sally Clark convened a forum to talk about townhouse design. Zoning/code changes have been in the pipeline ever since, but the process isn’t over yet, and for those still interested in the topic, we wanted to make sure you’d heard about a special City Council committee meeting this weekend. Like that famous forum in 2008, this one is a Saturday morning meeting, not in West Seattle, but not that far. Clark now chairs the Committee on the Built Environment (before, it was Planning, Land Use and Neighborhoods – that last part has split to a different committee), and its special meeting on low-rise multi-family housing, including townhouses, is set for 10 am-noon this Saturday at Taproot Theatre in Greenwood (map). Lots more info here, with meeting documents/agenda here.

marty March 19, 2010 (10:09 am)

Too late!! This should have happened before these “beauties” were built all over West Seattle.

Silly Goose March 19, 2010 (11:34 am)

Let’s hope Sally can get the construction of these ugly eye sores stopped.

grant March 19, 2010 (12:19 pm)

Yeah really- to bad someone didn’t give it more thought BEFORE all those cookie cutter ugly a** places went up…maybe there is some hope left, but i’m not counting on it.

(required) March 20, 2010 (11:38 pm)

“marty” and “grant,” your’e right. Sad to say, but you’re right. Where it has already happened — and that’s been WAY too many places here in West Seattle — it is too late. The owners of those pieces of garbage and those who live next to them are all stuck. The townhomes will never be re-sold at a profit. They will sit forever, and eventually, there’s probably even going to be neat lawsuits between miserable co-owners who are left with having to quibble — loser to loser — about dumb issues that only lawyers can dream up. The builders don’t live where they built — they know better. They live in places which will never see the monstrosities they’ve been allowed to thrust upon everyone else.

The city of Seattle really let itself get bought out. If Sally can take steps to correct this, I’ll volunteer for her re-election campaign.

leslie March 22, 2010 (3:07 am)

I think the picture on this blog says it all. How much more UGLY can you get? And yes, they are there for years to come. Don’t sell your soul Seattle!!

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