Comments on: West Seattle development: New proposal for ex-Mastro property at 3257 Harbor Avenue SW

By: Tyleredmo

Tyleredmo — Sat, 01 Feb 2014 06:22:46 +0000

This very well could be two projects. SW city view is between these two properties and would require vacating. SDOT does not like to vacate land, if you look at the huge retaining wall on the East Side of Harbor ave that passed city council approval to vacate over 18 years ago and still is not vacated. In fact they let the Port of Seattle build that wall with no permits. Bottom line my guess is two seperate projects.

By: K

Fri, 31 Jan 2014 15:49:37 +0000

On google maps, both of those addresses are apparently located as the Harbor/SW Spokane intersection? This is south of the actual location of the project. This is going to make getting in/out of Alki much worse than it already is. How do we go about finding out how the City plans to handle the additional traffic? I emailed about the project at the corner of SW Harbor/SW Spokane but never heard back.

By: WSB

WSB — Thu, 30 Jan 2014 21:35:52 +0000

Very interesting – the other half is 3303 Harbor and it’s not clear from the DPD docs whether it’s a duplicate or a twin or what. The only one on the Design Review schedule at the moment is 3257. Will check with them about what it looks like in their system – two addresses for one site, or proceeding with this and maybe with the other half later, or …

By: Gatewooder

Gatewooder — Thu, 30 Jan 2014 21:16:55 +0000

Looks like the the proposed development is for just half the site, which is 22,880 in total, so it doesn’t seem to me that the ultimate project will be any smaller. The original design had a pedestrian stairway for the community above it that would have been paid for by the developer, has this taken out of the project? Breaking it into two pieces may be a way for the developer to avoid the public improvement, do you know?