Madison BRT Open House: With the mayor announcing a revision to the planned levy that will help pay for it — Since announcing an initial draft proposal in mid-March, the Mayor’s Office and SDOT have engaged people across Seattle, seeking feedback on transportation priorities. The revised proposal reflects what the City has learned through this engagement effort. — the Madison BRT project will be on the board Wednesday night at an open house to gather feedback on the $87 million project:
SDOT would like your input on:
-BRT design options, routing, terminals, and station locations
-Priorities for transit service and capital investments
-Design concepts for a Central Area protected bike laneMadison BRT Open House – 5/6/15 5-7 PM at Seattle Academy of Arts and Sciences Middle School 1432 15th Ave
CHS wrote here about the biggest design questions for the “bus rapid transit” project planned to create a corridor of speedy bus service from the waterfront all the way up to the Central District through the heart of First Hill and along the southern edges of Capitol Hill.
12th Ave E Design Review: The review board has a light session Wednesday night with only one project on the docket. A four-story building with 51 apartment units and no parking is planned for 12th Ave just south of John. The old house standing at the site — like many others along 12th — will be demolished for the project.
Design Review: 121 12th Ave E
Design Proposal (PDF)Review Meeting
May 6, 2015 6:30 pm
Seattle University
902 Broadway
Administration Building Room 221
Review Phase
REC–Recommendation
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Cool, lets cram another 50-75 people on 12th and not give them anywhere to park. How are these developers not required to build underground parking? This is ridiculous.
Objective:
Design and construct a residential building containing 51 apartment units
Number of Residential Units (Approx.) 51
Number of Parking Stalls (Approx.) 0
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You’re right where are those cars going to go? Maybe they’ll find 51+ people all willing to walk and bus to work?
Works for me! Right next to the upcoming light rail station–an ideal no-car location.
Maybe you should instead be asking why the developers aren’t choosing to build parking? Maybe building parking is too expensive, so if the developer built parking they’d lose money on them, which would only drive up the rents further to make up for the loss.
I’d hate to be their neighbors. Just doesn’t seem fair to shove off their building’s parking on the rest of the neighborhood like that at no cost to them (assuming those people will have to park on the streets).
Well, my house is so close to this project that it shows up in a half-dozen maps in their design review doc — and these to-be-demolished buildings presently share my side sewer.
Why would I assume that the city is going to provide us with free on-street parking in perpetuity? We have a garage for our car.
Why do you assume that they are going to be parking anything, anywhere? It’s a dense urban neighborhood, with everything you need in walking distance, well served by buses, cabs, Uber, Lyft, Zipcar, Car2Go, and Pronto. It’s probably the most appealing place in all of Washington State for people who don’t want to own a car.
not everyone needs a car to function in life, stop imposing your auto addiction on everyone else
This is one of the tradeoffs for making housing (somewhat) more affordable. Underground parking is expensive to build.
I loved living on the hill and my wife and I rarely used our shared car.
I live a half-block from this project and am thrilled to see no more parking. It provides an organic cap on the number of cars in our neighborhood, and means that these units will more likely go to people seeking to walk, bike, and use transit — rather than people who want to clog up our streets.
Agreed.
Plus this location is on two main arterials and a couple blocks from the upcoming rail station.
When a 55 unit aPodment complex opened across the street from me I thought, well there goes what street parking we have left. I was wrong. I can’t tell the difference before and after. To think everyone here will have cars is short sided.
I hope the BRT will use existing busses rather than a fleet that is special to this route and does not include a special center load/unload lane.
I think it’s a crime that they are tearing down all of these old houses. They don’t build houses like this anymore. Modern day materials are poorer quality and craftmanship is non-existent. Once these old homes are gone they are gone forever and it is a crying shame.
I agree these modern day apartments lack charm and architectural appeal.