That’s our video from the first half of last night’s Southwest Design Review Board doubleheader, the second Early Design Guidance meeting for 4745 40th SW (our coverage from the first one, in May, is here).

It’s a mixed-use project to be built on a site that currently holds a two-story office building across from the Alki Masonic Lodge and its parking lot. It’s planned for about 150 residential units, apartments with some live-works, and a 1,000-square-foot commercial space on its north side, which abuts the now-vacant site of a future city park.

As noted here briefly after last night’s meeting, the board gave its approval for the project to move out of the EDG phase, which means there will be at least one more design-review meeting. We’ll be adding our notes to this story later, but not likely before tonight, so for anyone who missed the meeting but is interested in the project and what was said by the architects, board members, and community members, we are publishing the video for starters.

Note that for this part of last night’s meeting, our video does NOT include a view of the projection screen (apologies), just the presenter, as well as the board and members of the public, so to follow along with visuals, review the packet of graphics provided to board members – see it here. If you have comments about the project – design, traffic, or any other related topic – you can get them to city planner Bruce Rips, whose e-mail address is bruce.rips@seattle.gov. (Our video from the second review last night, 4755 Fauntleroy, will be up soon.)