This is just a quick follow-up to Wednesday’s Ugly Townhomes post. I wasn’t able to go to the Seattle City Councilmember Sally Clark’s townhome forum on Saturday, but thankfully intrepid reporter Tracy Record with the West Seattle Blog was, and she reports on it there at length: Townhouse forum consensus: They CAN be saved, if…
By most accounts at this morning’s townhouse forum, an official meeting of City Councilmember Sally Clark’s Planning, Land Use, and Neighborhoods Committee held at the Capitol Hill Arts Center, townhouses themselves are not inherently evil. “There’s nothing intrinsically wrong with” them, Clark said in her opening remarks. However, the current form so many of them take — and if you think West Seattle has its share, it’s nothing like some of the photos shown of sprawling blocks of them in the North End — is primarily blamed on the city code, which as reported here and elsewhere, may soon be changed. Clark half-joked that the topic was a sneaky way to engage citizens with those upcoming revision proposals, saying at the start, “this is a way to keep people from getting narcoleptic about the Multifamily Code.” Definitely not a sleep-inducing event. Our full story, ahead…
If you’re interested in the regulation side of the townhome debate in Seattle proper, I highly recommend you check out the full article.