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City wants solution for closed Lowell Elementary ‘S Path’ by end of month

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City of Seattle officials said Thursday night they intend to have a plan pounded out with Seattle Public Schools by the end of November for what happens next to the “S Path,” the curving public sidewalk between Federal and 11th Ave E that has been fenced off since the start of adjacent Lowell Elementary’s school year.

“We don’t take the situation we have at the path lightly,” Genesee Adkins, chief of staff for the Seattle Department of Transportation, said Thursday at the second of two community meetings to discuss solutions for the path that was closed following complaints about discarded drug needles, and garbage and human waste along the leafy path next to the school. Continue reading →

4 at 11th/Aloha, 6 on Bellevue Ave E, 2035 at City Hall

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Coming to 11th and Aloha

Coming to 11th and Aloha

(Image: CHS)

(Image: CHS)

Wednesday night brings two Capitol Hill projects in front of the design review board — one a local lightning rod for anti-development rancor, the other a plan to create a new apartment building on top of a rejected landmark — while City Hall hosts a public meeting on shaping the city’s development over the next 20 years.Screen Shot 2015-05-27 at 12.31.20 PM

  • 748 11th Ave E: Displacement is real. And so are concerns about building new apartments on Capitol Hill without parking, apparently. Bradley Khouri’s b9 Architects and developer Robert Hardy will bring their revised vision for a four-story, 30+ unit apartment building at the corner of 11th and Aloha in front of the design review board Wednesday night for what they hope is the final sign-off on the project that has faced pushback from neighbors living along the streets just above Lowell Elementary. In addition to paring back the project by shaving off two units and attempting to reduce the project’s scale, Khouri and Hardy have thrown concerned neighbors a bone on the parking front:
    Developer has a preliminary agreement with Diamond parking for tenants to lease stalls in the parking lot directly west of the site. The lot is currently used by Seattle Public Schools for teacher parking and other neighborhood events and is not fully utilized.

    Neighbors asked for the building to be reduced to three stories -- this slice shows the compromise

    Neighbors asked for the building to be reduced to three stories — this slice shows the compromise

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