The first one went so well, the Seattle City Council is ready to do it again. Monday night will bring another public meeting on microhousing in Seattle as the city’s leaders wind their way toward changing the rules for how the boarding-house style apartments are reviewed and permitted.
[mappress mapid=”61″]Unlike the first session last month — Notes from the Seattle microhousing forum: ‘fact finding’ + ‘podners’ + ‘out of scale’ — May 6th’s meeting will include testimony from community representatives and developers. It will also take place at a friendlier hour for those who work during the day in a location much closer to the Capitol Hill epicenter of pushback seeking to throttle the developments. And, yes, there will also be time for more public feedback.
If you can’t make it Monday night, consider dropping session sponsor Tom Rasmussen an email with your thoughts.
City Council to host second meeting on micro-housing developments
Public invited to share feedback with Councilmembers
SEATTLE – City Councilmember Tom Rasmussen today confirmed that a second public meeting on micro-housing developments will be held. The meeting will be on May 6 at 6:00 p.m. at Seattle First Baptist Church on First Hill.
The first meeting was held in April in response to questions and concerns raised by residents of several Seattle neighborhoods where micro-housing units are being constructed.
The purpose of the second meeting is to hear from neighborhood representatives who will give their views and recommendations on the micro-housing projects. Representatives of the developers who build micro-housing projects will be present to describe the projects and the market for this housing alternative and their response to concerns they are hearing from the community.
In addition to Councilmember Rasmussen co-sponsors of the meeting include Councilmembers Nick Licata, Sally J. Clark and Richard Conlin.
Councilmember Tom Rasmussen stated: “A portion of the meeting will include an opportunity for the public to provide comments on what they have heard during the meeting and to provide recommendations on what, if any, regulations should be enacted for this unique type of housing.”
WHAT: Micro-housing development discussion
WHEN: Monday, May 6, 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
WHERE: Seattle First Baptist Church
Fellowship Hall (downstairs), 1111 Harvard Ave. (on First Hill)
WHO: Seattle City Councilmembers and Council staff
Representatives from communities and neighborhoods
Representatives of micro-housing developers
They are using a graphic of a DeLorean to illustrate the relative size of medium parking space?
The graphic is not even accurate – the DMC-12 covers approx 78 sq ft rather than the 128 sq ft depicted… details, people, details !
Construction workers just started framing the *seventh* floor of the Apodment on boylston and Thomas. I thought we had 60 foot height limits? Have developers exempted themselves from this rule somehow, or am I remembering wrong about the height limits?
Stacy – The height limit within MR zones is 75 feet as outlined in Seattle Municipal Code Section 23.45.514
I think your counting is off, Stacy, which is an easy mistake at this stage. 1st level is daylight basement with 5 floors above ground, the 5th of which is a loft height partial floor.
The graphic doesn’t need to be accurate to get the point across. The details don’t matter.
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