Amendments to the HALA legislation for Downtown/SLU will be under consideration at the PLUZ [Planning, Land Use, and Zoning Committee meeting in City Council Chambers next Tuesday, March 21, at 9:30 AM. 

This way, the City can have it all…livability, health, and safety protection for downtown residents, no reduction in development capacity for developers, and generate the necessary funding for affordable housing.

If it weren’t for our strong support of the homeless and affordable housing, we would fight this ludicrous DNS all the way to Superior Court if necessary....

While Ed Murray was elected Mayor, his autocratic rule has many citizens saying that he's acting more like a King....

Downtown Seattle won’t be a place that people want to live if the City continues to erode livability by allowing taller and fatter residential high-rises closer together without adequate light, air, and privacy....

Because our persistent calls for reasonable livability protections for all downtown residents have so far been ignored in the rush to pass the Mayor's Housing and Livability Agenda (HALA)...

If Seattle is going to be a great City in the future, it needs to better align its policies with its political pronouncements....

We do not believe it is in the best interests of Seattle and its residents to rush to bolster the Mayor's reelection campaign by ignoring serious environmental impacts and passing HALA without the proper protections for its residents.

In Vancouver, it's not just about tower spacing. It's about wide functional alleys and many other characteristics of high quality downtown livability....

Seattle Treats Downtown Alleys And Its Residents Like Trash By Refusing to Establish Alley Setback Requirements....

No need to travel to exotic foreign deserts to view unique solar displays now available in downtown Seattle alleys courtesy of the developer loophole...

Downtown Seattle’s 19th century alleys are dangerously overloaded with traffic and are threatened with gridlock by monstrous new developments...

Great example of downtown residential density done right. A pencil like tower, green setbacks and beautiful design create an oasis at 5th and Madison...

“When density is done right, it gives people more of what they like, and less of what they don’t like in a neighborhood...”

The Mayor’s HALA proposal offers a window of opportunity to fix land-use code flaws, bring our alleys into the 21st Century, and raise the much-needed funds for Affordable Housing at the same time...

Today we are announcing the founding of the Downtown Residents Alliance and launch of the Downtown Residents Alliance blog: seattledra.squarespace.com.

Funding HALA on the backs of downtown residents is neither a fair nor a livable solution for the future of downtown Seattle. Downtown residents want and deserve a “Real Deal”, one that puts the “L” in HALA...

If this continues, it will kill the livability of downtown, one of the things that made Seattle great....

Light, air, privacy, and safety are the essential elements of good livability....

Most new downtown development is residential, but there are not the development standards in place to protect Downtown Residents’ Livability....

It was not even a serious consideration to propose raising allowable height to 400' unless you also provided 60'-80' tower spacing...