(yes, another geeky meeting. However, these guidelines will guide building design for 20 years or more, and so will govern what our [rapidly changing] neighborhood will look and feel like in the future. So it’s in our best interests to go along and help the City get it right. Andrew)
Seattle Design Guidelines!
Public Meeting to Review Draft Updates
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
The City’s design guidelines, Design Review: Guidelines for Multifamily and Commercial Buildings, have been the cornerstone of the Design Review Program since 1994. Beginning in 2008, the Department of Planning and Development (DPD) has led a process to update the 16-year-old citywide guidelines, and is now releasing a first draft for public review.
We are hosting a public meeting at which staff will present the updated guidelines and offer opportunities for public comment. We welcome your attendance!
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
5:30pm Open House/6:00-7:30pm Presentation and public comment
Bertha Landes Room, City Hall
600 4th Ave., 5th Avenue entrance*
With the release of detailed Draft Guidelines, Seattle is taking the critical step of renewing its vision of the priorities and values that will inform our approach to design review. One of the key values we share is the importance of neighborhoods taking a lead in establishing their own guidelines, which 19 neighborhoods have already completed. At the same time, a citywide document enables neighborhoods throughout the city to share a common approach to key issues for design in our city and in our time: design excellence, the physical environment, sustainable development, and the diversity of people and cultures that exist here.
The design guidelines have been updated to reflect emerging issues in urban design and sustainability, and improve general usability for Design Review Boards, the public and City staff.
The guidelines are posted on DPD’s website at http://www.seattle.gov/dpd/Planning/CitywideDesignGuidelinesUpdate/Overview/
and comments may be made online. For more information, please contact Cheryl Sizov, Project Manager, at (206) 684-3771.
* Bertha Landes is fully accessible. Please contact DPD as soon as possible to request special accommodations.
[Bertha Landes was Seattle’s only (to date) female Mayor and is dead, and hence inaccessible! The large meeting room at City Hall is the Bertha Knight Landes Room which is fully accessible. I presume they are referring to the latter. Andrew]
