The best way to increase the amount of affordable housing is to allow small houses and ADUs with incentives rather than fees.
There need to be standards to keep neighborhoods livable, particularly setbacks from taller buildings. Any new zoning should allow for design standards.
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Glenn Singer
9 years ago
The City needs to impose Impact Fees for developers
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Gwydion Stone
9 years ago
Seattle's neighborhoods are among its defining identity features. They are a non-renewable cultural resource. Stop this madness, and come up with reasonable, community-driven solutions!
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Elizabeth Walter
9 years ago
HALA upzones are not providing affordable housing -- they are tearing down affordable housing and replacing it with un-affordable housing.
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Carolyn Lewis
9 years ago
Enough is enough of these poorly thought out ideas that are already damaging our community and NOT helping with the housing shortage.
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Mark von Walter
9 years ago
City wide HALA upzones will drastically inflate all properties in Seattle = less affordability. A measured, incremental process to meet actual demand makes more sense.
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Elizabeth J Douglas
9 years ago
Why aren't the up zones in Queen Anne or Magnolia. I live where affordable housing exists already...only to be torn down if this passes.
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Maureen Cartano
9 years ago
HALA and MHA are not about affordable housing, but rather serve as cover for city hall's primary agenda of increased development in desirable neighborhoods at the cost of existing affordable units.
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Anondave
9 years ago
I agree with everything said here. The developers and their neo nazi urbanist friends are destroying the entire city to have pocket parks, parklets, green streets, bike lanes that adult homeowners like us can't use don't want. Say no to density. Say no to bike lanes. Say no to "upzones" for affordable housing.
Most importantly vote out the bums who enable homeless pan handlers, who enable non-profit developers with "affordable housing" levies.
We need to unite and get strong PROGRESSIVE activists like Jon Grant who understand the nuances in our opposition to housing. Please support him, he's the last hope for protecting single family homes from rapacious development and from our owner-beloved neighborhoods becoming havens for renters. After all, we pay the taxes!
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Dorothy Darrow
9 years ago
These development enrich the developers only. They do not add money for infrastructure or additional public transportation. Plus, they are ugly!
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April Atwood
9 years ago
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Catering to developers does nothing to create affordable housing. The housing being built is very expensive, and contributes to driving the poor out of town (or into homelessness). Heavy development is also seriously reducing the greenscape that makes neighborhoods livable.
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Ann G Brown
9 years ago
SAY NO!!
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David Baum
9 years ago
Yes! It is time for the neighborhoods to stand up, speak up, and reject this affordable housing upzones of HALA.
We don't need upzones to build affordable housing. We can build it down south. Or in Renton. Or Kent. We have other communities we must force to build affordable housing so that our wonderful, stable neighborhoods do not succumb to being overrun by new people, by immigrants, by transients.
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Kristin Stone
9 years ago
The property owners in current single family zones should get to decide if their zoning is changed to LR3. We worked for 25 years to afford to buy our house in a desirable single family area, and this is obviously a land grab by the city and developers that is not needed to increase density. I support increased density via more ADUs within SFH zones, across the board, before changing any SF zoning areas to LR3 without the property owners' approval.
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Ability D Bradshaw
9 years ago
Seattle needs city council members with vision. All I see are dollar signs in their eyes, not a vision for Seattle to grow and prosper...and be a pleasing, artful place to live. Come on!
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Evelyn Lim
9 years ago
I'm not against growth but rampant development in this city is going to have detrimental effects that will be irreversible. Impact fees need to be paid by developers to help pay for infrastructure improvements that are very necessary to cope with increased population.
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Martha J Shuker
9 years ago
By allowing developers to take over our city, we are destroying the American Dream.
The best way to increase the amount of affordable housing is to allow small houses and ADUs with incentives rather than fees. There need to be standards to keep neighborhoods livable, particularly setbacks from taller buildings. Any new zoning should allow for design standards.
The City needs to impose Impact Fees for developers
Seattle's neighborhoods are among its defining identity features. They are a non-renewable cultural resource. Stop this madness, and come up with reasonable, community-driven solutions!
HALA upzones are not providing affordable housing -- they are tearing down affordable housing and replacing it with un-affordable housing.
Enough is enough of these poorly thought out ideas that are already damaging our community and NOT helping with the housing shortage.
City wide HALA upzones will drastically inflate all properties in Seattle = less affordability. A measured, incremental process to meet actual demand makes more sense.
Why aren't the up zones in Queen Anne or Magnolia. I live where affordable housing exists already...only to be torn down if this passes.
HALA and MHA are not about affordable housing, but rather serve as cover for city hall's primary agenda of increased development in desirable neighborhoods at the cost of existing affordable units.
I agree with everything said here. The developers and their neo nazi urbanist friends are destroying the entire city to have pocket parks, parklets, green streets, bike lanes that adult homeowners like us can't use don't want. Say no to density. Say no to bike lanes. Say no to "upzones" for affordable housing. Most importantly vote out the bums who enable homeless pan handlers, who enable non-profit developers with "affordable housing" levies. We need to unite and get strong PROGRESSIVE activists like Jon Grant who understand the nuances in our opposition to housing. Please support him, he's the last hope for protecting single family homes from rapacious development and from our owner-beloved neighborhoods becoming havens for renters. After all, we pay the taxes!
These development enrich the developers only. They do not add money for infrastructure or additional public transportation. Plus, they are ugly!
Catering to developers does nothing to create affordable housing. The housing being built is very expensive, and contributes to driving the poor out of town (or into homelessness). Heavy development is also seriously reducing the greenscape that makes neighborhoods livable.
SAY NO!!
Yes! It is time for the neighborhoods to stand up, speak up, and reject this affordable housing upzones of HALA. We don't need upzones to build affordable housing. We can build it down south. Or in Renton. Or Kent. We have other communities we must force to build affordable housing so that our wonderful, stable neighborhoods do not succumb to being overrun by new people, by immigrants, by transients.
The property owners in current single family zones should get to decide if their zoning is changed to LR3. We worked for 25 years to afford to buy our house in a desirable single family area, and this is obviously a land grab by the city and developers that is not needed to increase density. I support increased density via more ADUs within SFH zones, across the board, before changing any SF zoning areas to LR3 without the property owners' approval.
Seattle needs city council members with vision. All I see are dollar signs in their eyes, not a vision for Seattle to grow and prosper...and be a pleasing, artful place to live. Come on!
I'm not against growth but rampant development in this city is going to have detrimental effects that will be irreversible. Impact fees need to be paid by developers to help pay for infrastructure improvements that are very necessary to cope with increased population.
By allowing developers to take over our city, we are destroying the American Dream.
Thanks for doing this!!
enough is enough. stop ruining our neighborhoods!
I oppose developer driven HALA up zones.