What will one of the area’s largest landholders build on the edges of Capitol Hill over the next decades? Seattle University is preparing for the first public hearing to discuss revisions to the plans which govern the way the school develops the property it owns. Major institutions like SU must follow a process regulated by the City of Seattle’s land use code when planning for development. The institutions complete a Major Institution Master Plan which must be approved by the Seattle City Council. This particular MIMP is a big deal.
The public hearing on SU’s MIMP is next Wednesday night. Doug is working on getting more details from the university about the update and we’ll have more from city officials and community experts in the days ahead.
PUBLIC HEARING
A public hearing to gather comments on the Draft Major Institution Master Plan is being combined with the DEIS hearing scheduled for June 3, 2009 from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. The meeting will be held at the following location:
Seattle University
Teilhard de Chardin Hall, Rm. 142
(The building is located in the southwest portion of campus – between Campion Hall and Logan Field — and north of E. Jefferson St.; the building is identified as #8 on Figure 2-4 in this Draft EIS)
Seattle, WA
We don’t yet have the new master plan documents but SU has made summaries of feedback and revisions made during the process of formulating the new plans with Seattle’s Department of Planning and Development. Here’s the latest report from that process.
One area to keep an eye on is the updated plan’s potential impact on development of the lot at Madison and 12th that is currently home to a storage business. Seattle University’s Associate Vice President for Facilities Michael Kerns told a group in April that the lot is the most important development issue in Seattle University’s future. “We have to get that one right,” he said, but would only offer a prediction of something happening on the SU land where the business is located “within the next 5 to 6 years.” Kerns said the development will likely be a mixed-use project. “Let’s just say that storage will not be the ultimate use for that site.”
