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Central Area Land Use Review Committee to host meeting on 23rd/Cherry Acer House development

The Central Area Land Use Review Committee community group will hold an online meeting this week with developers behind the Acer House project,  a five-story, mixed-use building planned to rise at the corner of 23rd and Cherry.

CHS reported on the project here in what developer Ben Maritz said he hopes will be the “first truly anti-racist private sector development” in the city by addressing issues of ownership, displacement, and equity a privately financed project.

The Acer House project is also seeking a rezone to allow an extra floor of height from the Seattle City Council. Legislation for the rezone is beginning its path through City Hall after being transmitted last month. The city’s design review process will also start soon with community feedback first on elements of massing and context and later on the finer points around the afrofuturist design and colors.

Central Area Land Use Review Committee
Join us for our monthly meeting.
When: May 27, 2021, 6:00-7:30 PDT
(Meeting ID: 833 5105 0722 Passcode: 008494)
We will consider a presentation from the developer and architects for a project proposed for E. Cherry and 23rd Avenue (701 23rd Avenue — the current site of Flowers Just 4 U). To carry out the project a rezone of the site is being sought from the current NC1 zone with a 40 foot height limit to NC1 with a 55 foot height limit. The project, known as Acer House, proposes a 5-story mixed use building with 120 apartments, including affordable housing, and up to 8 retail spaces on the ground floor, including a childcare facility. The developer describes the project as a “truly anti-racist private sector development.” The aesthetic of the proposed design is described as “Afro-futurism”.

The group has posted more information including the developer’s proposal for design review here.

 

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anna
anna
2 years ago

No parking? Ouch.

dave
dave
2 years ago
Reply to  anna

This is located in a place with good walk, bike, and transit access to shopping, schools, and employment destinations. Studies have shown that including parking in a new development increases costs for the developer which usually gets passed on to tenants in the form of higher rent. People who want to live in a place with parking can live somewhere else.

Dale
Dale
2 years ago
Reply to  dave

but many will still have cars and will overwhelm an already busy parking situation. They won’t just “live somewhere else”. They’ll look up and down the street and see a few places to park and make the calculation that they can just deal with parking on the street.

The parking on these blocks already gets slammed during school events and they serve as overflow parking for the hospital a few blocks to the West.

We don’t have to look at the future to see this. The past is a good teacher… if we can just remember.

Building developments like this with no parking will just make our own property value go up… because we do have off street parking. Thanks? I guess?

We must look past idealism and deal with the reality that people have cars. Some need them, some don’t but we still have them and failing to plan for them is planning to fail.

No matter how you slice it, a development like this with no parking is simply a gift to the developers who can squeeze more square footage of living space out of the land, meaning more $$$ in their pocket and they won’t have to deal with the consequences.