Capitol Hill resident Patrick Tompkins has his say Tuesday

Seemingly frustrated by yet another compromise proposal, home — and townhome — owners from around Seattle added their voices to the opposition Tuesday to City Council member Mike O’Brien’s revised legislation to update zoning rules for Seattle’s lowrise neighborhoods.

Capitol Hill microhousing opponent Carl Winter was part of a parade of speakers during the public comments on the proposals who said they were not happy with O’Brien’s legislation strengthening restrictions on the size and scale of developments in Lowrise 3 zones. Winter called O’Brien’s “rewrite” “unacceptable.”

CHS reported in early May on the attempt at strengthening the Lowrise 3 restrictions without stifling the creation of new housing being offered by O’Brien.

Like Winter, many of the public commenters at Tuesday’s session of the Council’s planning and land use committee have been part of recent battles over development on Capitol Hill. Patrick Tompkins, a microhousing opponent and a big part of an unsuccessful fight against the Capitol Hill Community Council’s representatives in the light rail development process, was one of several Capitol Hill residents to voice opposition to O’Brien’s bill. Check out C is for Crank for quotes from many of the day’s speakers and some brutal analysis of the situation.

Seattle’s anti-density and slow growth advocates have kept up the fight even when faced with a city that has continued to boom — and is being planned to continue to do so. Many of the fights have ended in uneasy truces where elements like microhousing developments are still underway in core areas of Capitol Hill and the Central District. Some push-back has been unilaterally successful. But other victories have been mostly empty like the fight against the four-story development at 11th and Aloha that remains four stories and was not required to add parking despite protests from neighbors and conciliatory statements from the developer to a local TV news crew.

We’ll have to wait for later this month to see if the latest wave of slow growth protest will have its desired impact and sway Council members to reject O’Brien’s revisions.