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Let's Keep 12 story buildings out of Rainier Valley!

118 Comments

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Ruth Wojtowicz
12 years ago

This neighborhood does not need more high rise developments! And this particular project of 12 stories is beyond the norm in this community! The increase in traffic congestion is not welcome nor keeping with the spirit of this community!

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James S. Grant
12 years ago

These schemes ignore fact most people have a car even if they don't commute. A look at Columbia City shows you what this gift to developers gets you.

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Herb Tsuchiya, 81 RainierValleyPioneer
12 years ago

My vote is NO buildings 12 stories

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Teresa Varney
12 years ago

Way too big for a small community!

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Mark Hannum
12 years ago

I object to the upzone.

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Anonymous
12 years ago

No 12 story buildings. Fix the infrastructure but not by over building the area.

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Arlene Murphy
12 years ago Featured

The traffic in that area is already a nightmare! It took me 30 min. to get from Dearborn St. to Coumbian Way recently. Please don't make it any worse by adding to the population in that neighborhood. Also, it would make the area UGLY.

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Chuck Adams
12 years ago

Sixty--five feet is apparently consistent with other 'tall ' buildings in the area and even that is too tall. The South end is unique and should not become another Denny Regrade or Mercer mess.

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Erik Stanford
12 years ago

65 feet is tall enough IN ANY NEIGHBORHOOD.

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Erik Stanford
12 years ago

No upzone in our neighborhood, no bow tie traffic disaster. No more 'special treatment' for Rainier Valley. 65 feet is tall enough any NEIGHBORHOOD.

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Barbara Chamberlain
12 years ago

No on 12 stories at Rainier & McClellan

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Thomas Parenteau
12 years ago

Renton and Tukwila are better suited for high rises

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Anonymous
12 years ago

Buildings at this height do not belong in neighborhoods. They belong downtown. Between light rail, bike lanes and other traffice revisions, our neighborhood is already too congested. Its a drag on the quality of life. the towering buildings block what little sun we have and ruin the character of the neighborhood.

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Dionne Malatesta
12 years ago

There is no good reason to add highrises to Rainier Valley. We already have major traffic and parking issues. I have to wonder- why Rainier Valley?

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Christian Sarason
12 years ago

a 12 story building at this location is very out of scale with the rest of the neighborhood. I would prefer so see other 65ft zoned areas built out completely before going higher.

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Jeannie O'Brien · petition starter
12 years ago

Every lot next to the Mt Baker Light Rail Station is zoned 65 and the only one being built to 65 is city owned.

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Carl Winter
12 years ago

This is a mid-rise zone, increasing the height limit to 125' isn't an upzone it's a problem. Highrises belong downtown. The one way street arrangements creates more problems than it alleviates, please do not authorize this change. Neigborhoods deserve a voice in Seattle's develpment.

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Jaisri Lingappa
12 years ago

No more upzoning! Let midrise stay midrise - it should NOT become highrise. We already have areas designated for highrise buildings!

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Lucas Walter
12 years ago

What will become of the boarded up and decaying buildings or the pot dispensaries if those buildings are replaced by new buildings and restaurants and stores and a sufficient number of new residents to use and live and work in them? What if the new building obscures the view of a parking lot or gas station that a $600K Mt. Baker home currently enjoys? What if your house was to increase in value by many tens of thousands of dollars because a few years from now it is near a highly desirable place to live- that all sounds awful, right?

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Lucas Walter
12 years ago

How many of those lots are next to light rail stations?