CM Rinck is framing Kettle's amendment as technical, allowing a regular setback from the portion of Queen Anne Boulevard that is designated as parkland. CP Nelson says her staff visited QA Blvd and calls that a "valuable experience" also is also in support. - ThreadSky

typewriteralley.bsky.social • 28 days ago

CM Rinck is framing Kettle's amendment as technical, allowing a regular setback from the portion of Queen Anne Boulevard that is designated as parkland.

CP Nelson says her staff visited QA Blvd and calls that a "valuable experience" also is also in support.

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nickhat.ch•28 days ago

Backstory on QA Blvd is kinda wacky https://www.djc.com/news/const/10024416.html

Surprised that the city is so chill about encroachments

typewriteralley.bsky.social•28 days ago

CM Saka is calling his work to consider this amendment a "tabletop exercise."

Says he's in support of "reasonable tweaks around the edges" but wants to revisit the amendment in the permanent code update.

typewriteralley.bsky.social•28 days ago

CM Rivera says she's in support because there are only two historic boulevards in the city, and the other one doesn't have any homes on it. (That's Cheasty Blvd)

Kettle's amendment passes.

catlikesbridges.bsky.social•28 days ago

CHEASTY BLVD IS A HISTORIC BOULEVARD??? Wow how is it not revered and treated nicely… oh wait south end right

pwalchtaylor.bsky.social•28 days ago

Also the people who live along Cheasty Boulevard will be surprised to know that no one lives along it.

r343l.bsky.social•28 days ago

Also I thought Mt. Baker Blvd was a historic boulevard too. And Lake Washington Blvd. So very weird. Is there something actually special about the Queen Anne one or sone rich people pushed thru some paperwork decades ago??

qagggy.bsky.social•28 days ago

The Queen Anne rich people landmarked it in 1979.

catlikesbridges.bsky.social•28 days ago

I was thinking that too. Like wait there are no driveways on it???

typewriteralley.bsky.social•28 days ago

Amendment 5 from Rinck keeps in place existing requirements around building on smaller lots. She frames the amendment as technical, restoring a requirement that was removed when the bill was drafted.

CM Rivera is questioning central staff on her assertion that it's simply technical.

dirtypuer.bsky.social•28 days ago

Rivera completely misunderstanding the amendment...

typewriteralley.bsky.social•28 days ago

CM Rivera says she's concerned about tree retention and says she wants to vote no. Rivera is alone in voting no, though, and the amendment passes.

typewriteralley.bsky.social•28 days ago

Amendment 6 is Rinck's omnibus technical amendment. The biggest change here is that it ensures that HB 1110's requirements around building 4 or 6 units per lot are put into effect, overriding the arbitrary density limits that had been in place in the original bill.

typewriteralley.bsky.social•28 days ago

CM Moore says this amendment makes her "very nervous" because it doesn't specifically call out the fact that stacked flats are exempt from the density limits that apply to single-family and townhouse development. Says she's abstaining.

jessicagallegos.bsky.social•28 days ago

Here’s another example all thanks to our city council. If you are tearing a home down to place 4 to 6 units, make them affordable.

https://www.redfin.com/WA/Seattle/3502-W-Emerson-St-98199/unit-C/home/181298546

jessicagallegos.bsky.social•28 days ago

What gets built is this at $930,000. Where’s the affordable housing?

It’s offensive that our inept Seattle City council backs developers.

https://www.redfin.com/WA/Seattle/3818-36th-Ave-W-98199/home/127748

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