Neighborhoods Are Seattle’s Bedrock

    

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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                 Neighborhoods are the bedrock of Seattle, and while many of them have neighborhood plans that ensure some kind of well-ordered basis for their existence and development, the City of Seattle has recently initiated a process to open up those plans for review and possible reconstruction.  Whether the City makes good on its promise to honor these existing plans remains to be seen.  One thing that has not changed however is the City’s refusal to allow those neighborhoods without plans to acquire one. 

             Always critical to all neighborhoods, those with or without a plan, is how to control and address the development that the City designates for them to accept, how can people acquire and have an actual say in the City’s decisions, decisions that can alter or even negatively affect the makeup and character of a neighborhood.  Two documents of interest to this question are below, one is from a town back east, Chapel Hill, it has a process whereby its residents do get to have an active and very vocal voice in their  neighborhood development, the other is written by Elizabeth Campbell and is a preliminary document  that seeks to provide a framework for determining how much of the growth and development is occurring in Seattle, particularly seeking to put a solid human dimension into neighborhood planning decisions.

             These are the kind of things that would inform a Campbell municipal administration: 

 

· Chapel Hill Petition Process

· Guiding Neighborhood Development