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This is THE WORST. A site walkable to light rail & U District should be dense multifamily mixed-income housing. Instead, developer is building a few McMansions on private streets (!) & forever burying a creek that should be daylighted. Housing and climate crises be damned.

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It could be so much more, like 500+ housing units! Rowhouses and apartments with 9 acres to spare

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Yes! It is so preposterously wrong. This is a chance to do something beautiful and exemplary of Seattle’s green + creative + inclusive values. But nope we get the worst version of crass suburban dumb. Thanks to you &

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et al. for showing what is possible.

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Is there anything we can do to push for better development here?

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Yes- Connect with

and their activism at affordabletalaris.org. Not a simple path to change it but it’s worth the effort.

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Thank you for sharing this important example of failed land use policy with your followers.

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Ugh. They’re actually getting rid of more of Yesler Creek?

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