Queen Anne is home to many small single-family home lots, and some developers are eyeing them as candidates for oversized buildings… you may very well live near one in their cross-hairs. Now, an emergency vote by the Seattle City Council could stop this type of development. The Seattle City Council’s Monday agenda includes an ordinance drafted by Council-member Richard Conlin that will “prohibit incompatible buildings on undersized single-family-zoned lots”
The ordinance “declares an emergency requiring a three-fourths vote of the City Council so that the ordinance may take effect immediately.”
Contact the Seattle City Council to voice your support, concerns, and feedback at council@seattle.gov. Individual City Council members’ email addresses are also available, so contact each Council member to voice your support.
Note: the meeting is this Monday, September 10 at 2pm, so be sure to contact the City Council in advance!
For additional information and background, the Seattle Weekly has coverage of this upcoming vote, as well as an in-depth July cover article that highlights a Queen Anne incident of “big-house-tiny-lot” syndrome.
Thanks to a concerned Queen Anne resident for the tip on Monday’s emergency vote!