Mayor Trivializes the impact of U District Upzone. We call Bull!﻿

Mayor Trivializes the impact of U District Upzone. We call Bull!

10/13/2016

Last month the Mayor came to the U District to tout his upzone plan and the reception got chilly rather quickly. According to displacement activist John Fox, CM Rob Johnson and the Mayor don’t feel that upzoning the UDistrict from 240′-320′ highrises from current 45′ to 65′ heights would “stimulate any increase in the amount of new residential and commercial development over what we’re already getting under current zoning.” That’s when the bullshit meter spiked, the residents howled, and the Mayor took a quick exit stage left. Please read the entire article .

2 Comments

Shirley Nixon

10/17/2016 11:22:13 pm

Late today, October 17, 2016, the City issued a Notice of Public Hearing for November 16, 2016 on the proposed U District Up-zone Ordinance. It doesn't yet have a bill number because it hasn't yet been introduced. But a version of the bill (185 pages) plus a Director's Report and appendices (nearly 200 total pages) appeared today on the OPCD web site.
Rob Johnson has scheduled a special PLUZ Committee meeting for November 29 to review comments, and likely plans to vote on the up-zone ordinance at the December 6 PLUZ committee meeting, That should get it to the full council for a vote the following week, and on the Mayor's desk for signature well before the holidays.
The overwhelming majority of U District residents do not want the extreme height increases and densities that this ordinance will entail. John Fox's summation tells it like it is.
Seattle neighborhoods city-wide are within similar sacrifice zones; livability everywhere is gravely at risk.
Not a very happy new year awaits.

Griggs

10/23/2016 12:04:01 pm

Shirley - this certainly warrants having coffee. Wednesday is quite open.

Griggs

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