This bare-bones blog will address zoning and boundaries in and around the Haller Lake neighborhood, which lies between Northgate Way and Shoreline and extends from SR99 (Aurora Avenue North) and 15th Avenue Northeast.
Due to a Seattle City mapping error most of the maps available on the Seattle.gov website portray the eastern boundary to be I-5, and subsequently so do maps at such sites as Wikipedia, Google maps, Yahoo maps and the maps used by real estate companies. While it may be possible to correct all these maps, it's a daunting proposition.
The western portion of this neighborhood is home to the Haller Lake Community Club, Haller Lake Access Park and Northacres Park.
The eastern portion of this neighborhood is shared with the Pinehurst neighborhood and is the location of Jackson Park, one of Seattle's largest, the home to Jackson Park Golf Course, which occupies almost all of Haller Lake's northeast quadrant. In the southern portion of this area is the recently opened Hubbard Homestead Park.
Much of the Haller Lake neighborhood lies directly north of Northgate Urban Center which overlaps the two blocks up to 112th Street and actually extends north and west to enclose the UW Medicine/Northwest Hospital campus. Almost all of the neighborhood is also located in the "Northgate Overlay", a geographical area created by the City to allow Northgate to exert some political control of abutting and surrounding neighborhoods.
Homeless in Haller Lake? Part 2 – The impacts of 2000 new families in Haller Lake
ReplyDeleteZoning “Magic Loophole” converts a couple of hundred affordable housing units to about 2,000 mid- and high-income units on six square blocks across the street from Northgate, puts low-income residents on the street. Likely not since lower Queen Anne was scraped clear of its affordable Victorian apartments to make way for the 1962 Seattle World’s Fair have so many Seattle households been so adversely affected.
The impacts: Dramatic increases in already challenging neighborhood traffic, congestion, noise and pollution, an alarming spike in homelessness.
Here’s the KING 5 video and news story: oo.gl/vIT4t
by LINDA BRILL / KING 5 News/KING5.com
(Posted on April 10, 2012 at 5:49 PM, Updated April 10, 2012 at 7:21 PM, edited April 18, 2012, updated May 20, 2012 by Haller Lake Community Club Land Use Chair Rick Barrett. Note that the zoning appeal has been rescheduled for June 30, 2012)
SEATTLE -- Community groups and housing advocates have appealed a planned development just north of Northgate Mall and across the street from the famously congested Northgate exit on I-5, are concerned that low-income housing is disappearing in Seattle.
The property in question is Northgate Apartments at 11200 1St Avenue NE, just across the street from the Northgate mall, and located in the southern portion of the almost entirely single and multi-family zoned Haller Lake neighborhood.
There are 207 low-income units that will likely be replaced by nearly 2,000 mid-and high-income units.
The Seattle Department of Planning and Development has granted the developers a rezone but is not requiring one-to-one replacement of the low-income units.
Go to oo.gl/vIT4t for the full story and video.
A leading realtor states, “The traffic will be just horrible”, which may be putting it mildly. There are currently 2009 residential addresses in the portion of the Haller Lake neighborhood between Aurora and I-5 (due to a City mapping error no figures are available for the rest of the neighborhood). In terms of traffic impacts adding 2000 more in a towering structure that dwarfs everything near it, including Northgate itself, will be the equivalent of putting a second house on every existing lot.