{"id":2021,"date":"2008-06-09T09:49:06","date_gmt":"2008-06-09T16:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/?p=2021"},"modified":"2008-06-09T09:49:06","modified_gmt":"2008-06-09T16:49:06","slug":"follow-up-ugly-townhome-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/09\/follow-up-ugly-townhome-forum\/","title":{"rendered":"Follow-Up: Ugly Townhome Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is just a quick follow-up to <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/04\/seattle-city-council-hates-ugly-townhomes-too\/\" title=\"Seattle City Council Hates Ugly Townhomes Too\">Wednesday&#8217;s Ugly Townhomes post<\/a>.  I wasn&#8217;t able to go to the Seattle City Councilmember Sally Clark&#8217;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: <a href=\"http:\/\/westseattleblog.com\/blog\/?p=8135\" title=\"Townhouse forum consensus: They CAN be saved, if \u2026\">Townhouse forum consensus: They CAN be saved, if\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>By most accounts at this morning\u2019s townhouse forum, an official meeting of City Councilmember Sally Clark\u2019s Planning, Land Use, and Neighborhoods Committee held at the Capitol Hill Arts Center, townhouses themselves are not inherently evil. \u201cThere\u2019s nothing intrinsically wrong with\u201d them, Clark said in her opening remarks. However, the current form so many of them take \u2014 and if you think West Seattle has its share, it\u2019s nothing like some of the photos shown of sprawling blocks of them in the North End \u2014 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, \u201cthis is a way to keep people from getting narcoleptic about the Multifamily Code.\u201d Definitely not a sleep-inducing event. Our full story, ahead&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested in the regulation side of the townhome debate in Seattle proper, I highly recommend you check out <a href=\"http:\/\/westseattleblog.com\/blog\/?p=8135\" title=\"Townhouse forum consensus: They CAN be saved, if \u2026\">the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is just a quick follow-up to Wednesday&#8217;s Ugly Townhomes post. I wasn&#8217;t able to go to the Seattle City Councilmember Sally Clark&#8217;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\u2026&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[198],"tags":[269],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-townhomes"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Follow-Up: Ugly Townhome Forum \u2022 Seattle Bubble<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/09\/follow-up-ugly-townhome-forum\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Follow-Up: Ugly Townhome Forum \u2022 Seattle Bubble\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"This is just a quick follow-up to Wednesday&#8217;s Ugly Townhomes post. 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