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By: Geiser

Geiser — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:59:40 +0000

Touche, David in Burien. I should have used somewhere really awful, like Lynnwood, for my example.

By: Bill

Bill — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:47:50 +0000

This looks like a fabulous housing type for a pied-à-terre/crash pad. I visit Seattle occasionally, and if I were regularly in town more than 4 or 5 nights a month this would make way more sense than shelling out for a hotel room.

If they had something like this in Portland I would be all over it.

By: Joe G

Joe G — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 21:22:59 +0000

I tend to agree with the point of view that for some people this would be plenty of space. I make a reasonable income and live in a 348 studio in downtown. I pay more than I would like for it, but I love the building that I am in. Growing up in the suburbs I dreamed of owning a 3400sf Victorian mansion and soon after moving to Seattle I realized that my life is great in just 348sf. Now I dream of just being able to come up with the $150K in cash I will need to put down on a condo of probably only 600sf. Space is a relative thing and very personal. I now live a life where every time I buy a new pair of shows I have to get rid of a pair. It’s fun and challenging and just the life that I love!

By: Finishtag

Finishtag — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 21:15:58 +0000

Clever zoning aside, this *type* of housing fits an important niche. I lived in a similar project at a time in my life when I needed autonomy, a lock on my door, a clean bathroom of my own and but didn’t make enough $$ for a studio apartment.

By: David in Burien

David in Burien — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:47:32 +0000

“Not having a private kitchen would suck, but so would having to move to Burien and commute into work.”

Really? I hadn’t noticed. FWIW, Link Light Rail.

By: Gordonthestudent

Gordonthestudent — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:12:55 +0000

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By: Gordonthestudent

Gordonthestudent — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:12:15 +0000

I’m living in a dorm room of roughly equivalent size this upcoming year. All you people arguing that this is forcing people to live in cramped spaces: maybe you should consider that no one will be forced to live here and for a lot of people its much better than nothing.

By: Joshua Daniel Franklin

Joshua Daniel Franklin — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:40:01 +0000

@22: Maybe remodels would be enough. I think NIMBYs are just as concerned about being able to cash in eventually as about parking and so on. For neighborhoods like Maple Leaf that have mediocre transit access, I’d rather trade full protection of SF (for example, full design review on all projects) for upzones around arterial streets that already have some commercial activity. My hope would be that it would become possible to bike/walk for most trips.

By: Paul de Manuel

Paul de Manuel — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:26:48 +0000

Anyone know the average sized of a jail cell?

By: dan cortland

dan cortland — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 21:53:10 +0000

That was a facetious comment @20.

Sisley didn’t want to do the minimum upkeep, iirc. Lots of other owners rented out their houses to mostly young people of limited means and it worked very well, with no remodeling necessary (so everyone shared the kitchen).