City Hall
Extra Fizz: Laurelhurst and Children's Reach Settlement
I'm sitting in a conference room in the Seattle Municipal Tower across the street from City Hall, watching city employee after city employee after city employee pillory Mayor Mike McGinn for targeting their job classifications for cuts. More on that later today.
Meanwhile, I just got word that the Laurelhurst Community Club and Children's Hospital, who spoke before the city council at 9:00 this morning, have reached a settlement in their ongoing dispute over the hospital's proposed expansion. (Laurelhurst residents claimed that a larger hospital would create excessive noise and traffic in their neighborhood).
Under the terms of the settlement, Children's agreed to a number of concessions, listed below the jump.
• Reducing the size of the addition from 1.5 million square feet to 1.225 million square feet.
• Limiting the expansion of the campus and not expanding across Sand Point Way.
• For 50 years, Children's cannot expand into residential areas to the south, east, and north of its current campus.
• No more than 20 percent of the campus can be taller than 90 feet, and no more than 10 percent will be more than 125 feet tall. The overall height limit is 140 feet.
• A new parking garage has to be underground, not at-grade.
• Buildings must be 75 feet from Northeast 45th Street, not 40 feet as previously proposed.
• Children's and LCC agree to form a permanent committee to "resolve any issues that surface" in the future "in a timely manner."
Meanwhile, I just got word that the Laurelhurst Community Club and Children's Hospital, who spoke before the city council at 9:00 this morning, have reached a settlement in their ongoing dispute over the hospital's proposed expansion. (Laurelhurst residents claimed that a larger hospital would create excessive noise and traffic in their neighborhood).
Under the terms of the settlement, Children's agreed to a number of concessions, listed below the jump.
• Reducing the size of the addition from 1.5 million square feet to 1.225 million square feet.
• Limiting the expansion of the campus and not expanding across Sand Point Way.
• For 50 years, Children's cannot expand into residential areas to the south, east, and north of its current campus.
• No more than 20 percent of the campus can be taller than 90 feet, and no more than 10 percent will be more than 125 feet tall. The overall height limit is 140 feet.
• A new parking garage has to be underground, not at-grade.
• Buildings must be 75 feet from Northeast 45th Street, not 40 feet as previously proposed.
• Children's and LCC agree to form a permanent committee to "resolve any issues that surface" in the future "in a timely manner."
