Comments on: 23rd and Union http://hugeasscity.com/2008/01/30/23rd-and-union/ > so much wonderful packaged in such a mess Tue, 08 May 2012 11:36:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: What The Corner Really Needs | hugeasscity http://hugeasscity.com/2008/01/30/23rd-and-union/comment-page-1/#comment-30128 What The Corner Really Needs | hugeasscity Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:20:51 +0000 http://noisetank.com/hugeasscity/2008/01/30/23rd-and-union/#comment-30128 [...] eleven years I have lived two blocks from the notorious intersection of 23rd and Union where Mike McGinn recently held a press conference on public safety. We all know that the crime [...] [...] eleven years I have lived two blocks from the notorious intersection of 23rd and Union where Mike McGinn recently held a press conference on public safety. We all know that the crime [...]

]]> By: Etiquette Question | hugeasscity http://hugeasscity.com/2008/01/30/23rd-and-union/comment-page-1/#comment-178 Etiquette Question | hugeasscity Wed, 27 May 2009 07:56:58 +0000 http://noisetank.com/hugeasscity/2008/01/30/23rd-and-union/#comment-178 [...] to Seattle:  there be a whole lotta crack smokin going on around 23rd and Union.  All day every day.  Odd, isn’t it?  Gosh, it’s so un-Seattle!  But there it is, a [...] [...] to Seattle:  there be a whole lotta crack smokin going on around 23rd and Union.  All day every day.  Odd, isn’t it?  Gosh, it’s so un-Seattle!  But there it is, a [...]

]]> By: Some Rules Are Begging To Be Broken | hugeasscity http://hugeasscity.com/2008/01/30/23rd-and-union/comment-page-1/#comment-177 Some Rules Are Begging To Be Broken | hugeasscity Sun, 06 Apr 2008 05:55:58 +0000 http://noisetank.com/hugeasscity/2008/01/30/23rd-and-union/#comment-177 [...] Given the apparent popularity of bloviations on density such as this, as well as all the recent hyperventilating over proposed changes to Seattle’s multifamily zoning code, it is perhaps surprising that there hasn’t been more of an uproar over the prospect of tinkering with allowed building heights in a residential neighborhood. The short answer is this: 23rd and Union ain’t Wallingford. That intersection has been a gaping wound for so long that most neighbors are probably willing to cut the developer a whole lot of slack. Furthermore, the location of the building is such that it will impact very few surrounding properties. [...] [...] Given the apparent popularity of bloviations on density such as this, as well as all the recent hyperventilating over proposed changes to Seattle’s multifamily zoning code, it is perhaps surprising that there hasn’t been more of an uproar over the prospect of tinkering with allowed building heights in a residential neighborhood. The short answer is this: 23rd and Union ain’t Wallingford. That intersection has been a gaping wound for so long that most neighbors are probably willing to cut the developer a whole lot of slack. Furthermore, the location of the building is such that it will impact very few surrounding properties. [...]

]]> By: Dave http://hugeasscity.com/2008/01/30/23rd-and-union/comment-page-1/#comment-176 Dave Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:22:20 +0000 http://noisetank.com/hugeasscity/2008/01/30/23rd-and-union/#comment-176 23rd and Union simply sucks. I intentionally avoid the area at all cost, and encourage my friends who take the bus down here to visit me to get off at the 18th ave stop and walk through the neighborhood to get to my place, since the corner is so shady. I really think that all four corners need to be completely torn down and rebuilt up with multi-use buildings. The large parking lots remind me more of the suburbs of detroit that i grew up in rather than an area that is 15 minutes by bike from the core of downtown. This will require our neighbors to stop putting up hissy fits about 6 story buildings, which in my opinion are even too short. The other thing we need to do is increase the walkability of the area, which means slowing down traffic and making crossing the street not an exercise in self preservation. We've already discussed a road diet for 23rd which will do much to make the area more livable and conducive to the urban center it should be. In other news the old barbershop building on 23rd and marion is up for sale, we need to be vigilante about whatever gets built on that corner. Seriously no more craftsman townhouses. Dave 23rd and Union simply sucks. I intentionally avoid the area at all cost, and encourage my friends who take the bus down here to visit me to get off at the 18th ave stop and walk through the neighborhood to get to my place, since the corner is so shady.

I really think that all four corners need to be completely torn down and rebuilt up with multi-use buildings. The large parking lots remind me more of the suburbs of detroit that i grew up in rather than an area that is 15 minutes by bike from the core of downtown. This will require our neighbors to stop putting up hissy fits about 6 story buildings, which in my opinion are even too short.

The other thing we need to do is increase the walkability of the area, which means slowing down traffic and making crossing the street not an exercise in self preservation. We’ve already discussed a road diet for 23rd which will do much to make the area more livable and conducive to the urban center it should be.

In other news the old barbershop building on 23rd and marion is up for sale, we need to be vigilante about whatever gets built on that corner. Seriously no more craftsman townhouses.

Dave

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