Support More Housing Near Roosevelt Station

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To: Seattle City Council, Mayor McGinn, Diane Sugimura
Sirs and Madams-

We the undersigned are very much concerned about the Roosevelt Area Rezone. We think the draft plan would allow for buildings that are substantially smaller than what should be zoned for the area around a subway station. The draft plan does not allow for nearly enough housing and is not an effective use of the tax payer resources being spent on light rail in that area.

Every person who lives in Seattle is paying taxes into that Light Rail system and this is one of the only subway stations we're likely to see in Seattle in our lifetimes. Itd be a massive wasted opportunity, as well as a waste of tax payer money, to build a $5 billion subway line and only allow a few hundred more units of housing.

Please consider a more ambitious plan for the Roosevelt station area that will ensure the citizens of Seattle get a better value for the transit system we are paying for.

Sincerely,
The Undersigned

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  • Andrew M Smith
  • Ben Schiendelman
    • Comments
    • Seriously, even 65 feet is kind of ridiculous. Try 150.
  • chetan chandrashekhar
  • Justin Ferrari
  • Matt Gangemi
    • Comments
    • This is a 100 year investment in rail, and our city needs to grow 50\% by 2050. Upzoning for only 300 new homes will not permit an acceptable rate of growth for these conditions.
  • Michael Hoffman
  • Mark Yellen
  • David Bergman
    • Comments
    • Residents can compromise with 85feet heights with upper-level setbacks along parts of Roosevelt Ave, 12th, and 65th. Also, increasing FAR and reducing parking requirements may also increase the # of units without having to increase height that much. Considering there is so much vacant land owned by developed, this is a promising opportunity to add units before the station opens, and 500+ units would be significant benefit for the city's system.
  • Mike Knezevich
  • Jon Gunther
  • Christopher Cook
  • Brian Kernan
    • Comments
    • This is a subway station, zone accordingly.
  • Ian Barrere
  • Joshua Franklin
    • Comments
    • Put more height near I-5!
  • Kevin Burgess
    • Comments
    • Thanks for your consideration!
  • Troy Heerwagen
  • David Rice
  • Jeff Hammerquist
    • Comments
    • Very important issue - need more housing near station
  • Jorge Oswald
  • Christopher Tezak
  • Melissa Brown
  • Patrick Nelson
  • Grahm Satterwhite
  • Roger McManama
  • Chris Fiori
    • Comments
    • I recognize the constraints that the dominant single-family zoning in the area imposes, but the proposed 40-foot zoning along 65th should all be changed to 65' at minimum.
  • Kelsey O'Hollaren
  • Joshua Jones
    • Comments
    • You should allow developers to build Transit-Oriented Development (6+ stories) surrounding Link stations no matter what!
  • Andrew Schwerin
  • Megan Wolfe
  • Morgan Wick
    • Comments
    • I live just a few blocks south of the borders of the Roosevelt Urban Village.
  • Yorik Stevens-Wajda
    • Comments
    • I live within a mile of the station area and would be thrilled to see more development, more activity, and more neighbors around this amazing transportation asset.
  • Aaron Anderson
  • Andrew Cargill
  • Robert Baxter
  • Justin McCaffree
  • John Murphy
  • Brett Youngstrom
  • kristin nicole saunders
  • Phillip Garland
    • Comments
    • I've lived in the area for about 5 years, and would like our investment in transit to serve more people by allowing more businesses and more housing near the station
  • Michael Archambault
    • Comments
    • People are this city's future. More people, please.
  • Will Davidson
  • Marcus Stringer
  • David Seater
  • Shane Phillips
    • Comments
    • We should be taking as much advantage of our infrastructure investments as we can, and this zoning plan comes nowhere close to doing that.
  • David Dunneback
    • Comments
    • recommend that City review what Vancouver BC does for station-area implementation
  • Joseph Chilcoat
  • Molly Kernan
  • Kyle Rapinan
  • Chongsun
  • Jeffrey Miller