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Save Madison Valley works on case Group to argue city erred in issuing permit for The Madison development during December hearing By Brandon Macz
Madison Park Times editor Save Madison Valley is facing a lengthy uphill battle when it makes its case for why the City of Seattle erred in permitting the construction of a major multifamily housing project in the neighborhood earlier this year. “We’ve been told, and we all know, community groups rarely win these kinds of things,” said Melissa Stoker during the Sept. 18 Madison Valley Community Council meeting. The neighborhood group in August filed an appeal with the Seattle Hearing Examiner. SMV challenges a final recommendation of the design review board, the director’s decision on a land use application by architecture firm Studio Meng Strazzara and the Seattle Department of Construction and Inspection’s land use code interpretation for The Madison project at
2925 E. Madison St. A preconference meeting was held on Sept. 13, and the hearing is now set for the entire week of Dec. 10. The Madison would replace City People’s Garden Store with a six-story mixed-use development that includes 82 housing units and a PCC Market. A tree canopy sloping down from East Madison to Dewey Place East would also be removed; six townhomes are planned to front Dewey. Save Madison Valley is arguing that the city erred in determining there would be no significant environmental impacts from the development, and did not properly apply its own codes when assessing the Velmeir Properties project for a master use permit. The appeal states the Seattle Department of Construction and Inspections director did not properly analyze adverse impacts related to slopes, surface water,
Photo by Brandon Macz Legal counsel for Save Madison Valley and Velmeir Companies will go before the Seattle Hearing Examiner regarding a challenge to The Madison on Dec. 10. it builds its case for the weeklong hearing. groundwater, sewer, wastewater, flooding, The neighborhood group has spent trees, land use, wildlife, transportation, more than two years challenging aspects parking, noise, infrastructure, aesthetics of The Madison’s design, including during and construction. Stoker said SMV is working with its legal counsel to gather data and witnesses as APPEAL, Page 6
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Only in Seattle funding available to boost business districts Staff report
Madison Park Times The Office of Economic Development is making $1.4 million in business district improvement funds available through its annual Only in Seattle initiative. Neighborhood organizations, businesses and property owners are encouraged to work on a common vision for a business district, and any can apply for project funding by 5 p.m. Monday, Oct. 29. The Only in Seattle initiative is a partnership between OED, SDOT and the Department of Neighborhoods, and the district grants can be used to boost neighborhood organizations, promote business development, physically enhance a commercial corridor, or increase cleanliness
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One of the most impressive plantings of monumental rhododendrons in Madison Park can be found in front of the brick condominium complex at 2320 43rd Ave. E. No one I’ve spoken with knows exactly what hybrid they are. I suspect they might be Rhododendron “Beverly Tasker.” These yellow flowering beauties stretch up, curving one way and another, their handsome dark brown/black trunks and limbs topped by dark green leathery leaves. They are, in a word, symphonic; although they could benefit from some judicious thinning out and limbing up to remove errant and twiggy branches and to amplify their magnificent upward swoops. Step across the street from this set of buildings and imagine the facade without those rhododendrons. It would be an imposing fortress of red brick, stark walls of almost aggressive military force. Instead, those plants distance that structure from the street and sidewalk and make it appear to be tucked gently into the Northwest’s natural flora. If you are fortunate enough to own an old rhododendron that has gotten big, recognize your good luck. To shape it into a statuesque broad-leafed evergreen tree, look at it long and hard. Look first at the major verticals, then the side branches, and then gingerly begin the pruning and shaping. Always remove limbs and branches from the ground up and from the inside out. Cut each as close as possible to the limb from which it shoots. Remember, you can always cut it off, but you can never put it back. Be cautious not to allow “prunitis” to set in, that horrible and often compelling feeling of, “Hey! I’m into this. What can I cut off next?” Do it right and you’ll be left with a piece of horticultural sculpture that will give you and successive generations a lifetime of pleasure. After all, anything of beauty should be allowed to reach its full potential.
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a year, and for two years on any project he worked on while at SDOT under city ethics rules. Sparrman has also served in transportation management roles with the cities of Portland and Sacramento. He has a bachelor’s and master’s degree in civil engineering from Chalmer University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden, and is a license engineer in Washington. Former Highway 99 tunnel project administrator Linea Laird began serving as interim SDOT director on Sept. 1, and Mayor Jenny Durkan has assembled an 11-member search committee to find a permanent director.
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Image courtesy of Studio Meng Strazzara The Madison will include 82 housing units, which includes town houses on Dewey Place East, and a PCC Market fronting Madison.
APPEAL, from Page 1 the lengthy East Design Review Board process. Because the design review board lacked information that would have been provided through an accurate and complete environmental review, SMV argues, it made improper and uninformed decisions. The board also did not “allow for meaningful public participation,” according to the appeal. SMV doesn’t expect the project to be canceled, even if it wins its appeal before the hearing examiner, Stoker said. The hope is that the city will have to do a better job of reviewing the project, Stoker said, including requiring an environmental impact statement for the property, which has at least 39 trees on it that SMV argues are significant by the city’s own definition. “They could just say, ‘Looks fine — go forth. What are you complaining about?’” Stoker said. If the hearing examiner sides with the city, SMV could file a lawsuit in King County Superior Court, Stoker said. Calvin Jones, who rents an apartment in the Central Area, said people his age feel locked out of the “American Dream” because homes in Seattle are unaffordable, and questioned whether Madison Valley residents opposed more homes in the neighborhood. Stoker said SMV doesn’t oppose more housing, but the building being proposed “doesn’t comply with what needs to be
there.” “I don’t think this is an issue of not wanting homes there,” Stoker said, adding they feel a smaller project would be better. Jones left the Madison Valley Community Council meeting about 15 minutes later, as attendees continued recounting the issues they see with the project. Stoker said while the design review process is flawed, it did result in Velmeir having to produce more reports on the project, to which SMV responded with reports from its own consultants. Small victories included scrapping an exposed garage on Dewey, she said, though the entry point remains on the residential street. “What they did was kind of tacky,” Stoker said, “because they plastered some townhouses on it.” While the city required The Madison to include a landscaped pedestrian staircase from Madison to Dewey, Stoker said it appears the city may be working with Velmeir on a solution to its request to scrap that part of the project. “It is like the nicest part,” Stoker said. “They have nicer trees planted and …whatever.” Among the witnesses SMV’s legal counsel will call to testify during the weeklong hearing are arborists, traffic analysts and architects, including Peter Steinbrueck, who joined the Seattle Port Commission this year. Stoker said Save Madison Valley’s work has been sustained by generous donors. Find out more about the group at savemadisonvalley.org.
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Leschi, Lakewood moorage replacement could start next spring
Residents are still fighting plans to replace moorage at the Lakewood Marina, which could start next year.
Friends of Lakewood Moorage continue to challenge changes By Brandon Macz
Madison Park Times editor Marina Management partner Peter Joer expects permitting for replacing Leschi and Lakewood’s public moorage to come through in time for a spring 2019 start date. Meanwhile, residents continue to appeal decisions by the City of Seattle to turn over management of the marinas to a private operator while also pushing for more environmental scrutiny. Amid protests from residents who use the current facilities, the city council in August 2017 approved Seattle Parks and Recreation entering a long-term lease agreement — at least 20 years — with Marina Management to maintain, operate and improve public access to the North Leschi, South Leschi and Lakewood Moorage public marinas. The private operator took over management of Seattle’s marinas in January. “We should be done early next year in terms of when the fish window is, and the full expectation is the project will start next year,” said Marina Management partner Peter Joers. “If we had the permits, we’d be doing it today.” Friends of Lakewood Moorage filed a motion for summary judgment in King County Superior Court, arguing the city failed to hold a public hearing — as required under Initiative 42 — before approving the lease. The 21-year-old initiative states that all parkland held by the city will be preserved, and will not be sold, transferred or changed for another use without a public hearing and
Photo by Brandon Macz approved ordinance declaring “no reasonable and practical alternative.” The court determined in April that the city’s lease with Marina Management did not trigger Initiative 42 requirements, and subsequently denied a motion to reconsider. “I don’t think anybody disagrees that the Leschi and the Lakewood Moorage are not in the shape everybody would like them to be in, that they are deteriorating, and that there is an urgent need to fix them up,” said King County Superior Court Judge Catherine Shaffer during her summary judgment on April 6. “And I also don’t think there is any disagreement that for the memory of the people who are here in the court, including my memory, which is somewhat longer than yours due to my advancing age, these really haven’t been public marinas in the sense of being open to the public, they have been open to the boat owners that were using the moorage.” The judge said it is clear the City of Seattle does not
have the funding resources required to make the needed improvements to the marinas, and that the intent is to make them more open to the public. She did agree that it appears the moorages, particularly Lakewood, would be changed to accommodate larger boats, but that fact was not relevant to the case. “I sympathize with the plaintiffs’ desire that the moorages stay small, I get it, but large moorage spaces versus small moorage spaces is not a significant change in park use, to my way of thinking, the way something like, ‘Let’s have an amusement park where we have playfields’ would be a significant change,” Shaffer said, “or, ‘Let’s have big restaurants where we used to have playfields’ would be a big change. And I think that’s where the court kind of has to draw the line. Otherwise, everything the city does, even if it is in furtherance of an existing park use, requires kind of a ridiculous set of findings be made.” MOORAGE, Page 10
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Country Doctor on schedule for 2019 dental clinic opening First patients entering in January By Brandon Macz
Madison Park Times editor Country Doctor Community Health Centers executive director Raleigh Watts says the nonprofit’s new Capitol Hill dental clinic is set to open on time and on budget, taking current clients first in an effort to maximize its suite of health-care services. “We are going to clean teeth the first week of January, come hell or high water,” Watts said during a tour of the 19th Avenue site on Monday, Sept. 17. Watts inherited the project, located next door to Country Doctor’s Capitol Hill community clinic, 500 19th Ave., from former director Linda McVeigh — the first leadership change in 41 years. He had served on the CDCHC board for two decades, and provided consultant work previously for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, World Health Organization, UNICEF and the Center for Disease Control. Demolition of the old Betty Lee Manor building started in early November 2017, after Country Doctor spent two years working out its plans for a four-story dental clinic and apartment building through the East Design Review Board. The $7 million project has all its government funding secured, Watts said, and applications are out to several foundations. Bank financing will cover a portion of the construction cost, as will reserves. The capital campaign has reached about 93 percent of its funding goal, and the hope is to narrow that gap during Country Doctor’s annual fundraising dinner on Saturday, Oct. 20, at the Museum of History & Industry (MOHAI). Tickets are $135 per person and available for purchase at countrydoctor.org/dinner. The Country Doctor Community Clinic was already cramped for space before Betty Lee Manor came down. Demolition pushed auxiliary services and administrative offices over to the clinic. “We had to stuff everybody in,” said Watts, who has been working from home since coming aboard. The ground floor needed to be designed like a storefront, Watts said, and tenants will bank to the left to get to their apartments while patients keep to the right. There will be six rooms on the ground floor for nonmedical services, such as the WIC program and maternity and diabetes education, Watts said. The clinic will have eight dental chairs, and Country Doctor plans to serve 100 patients per day. There will also be a panorama X-ray room. Watts said Country Doctor is still determining the scope of the dental work it will be able to provide, but clients will need referrals for things like dentures or braces. People who have avoided or been unable to visit a dentist for years will require multiple visits to catch up, Watts said, and Country Doctor will first prioritize its medical patients, particularly people with compromised immune systems and pregnant women. “People who it really helps to have a healthy mouth to fight off infection,” Watts said. Many private dentists don’t take Medicaid payments, Watts said, and the University of Washington’s School of Dentistry and Neighborcare Health, which leases space at Country Doctor’s Carolyn Downs Family Medical Center on East Yesler, can only help so many patients.
(Above) Country Doctor executive director Raleigh Watts, right, provided a tour of the new Capitol Hill dental clinic under construction to a small group on Monday, Sept. 17. (Left) The Country Doctor Dental Clinic Building is being constructed at 510 19th Ave.
Photos by Brandon Macz The east half of the second floor will be dedicated for social services, triage nurses, behavioral health, an HIV team and nurse case managers, while the west end will include administrative officers and a staff conference room. Sarah Huffbauer, a family medicine doctor who joined Monday’s tour, said staff has been meeting at the Miller Community Center due to a lack of space currently. Once the dental clinic building is completed, which Watts anticipates will be in mid-December, the additional space will also be a boon for the community clinic next door. Country Doctor plans to use its freed up space to add an additional exam room, with enough space for staff to collaborate when working with a patient. “What we really want to do is be able to provide teambased care,” Watts said. The community clinic’s pharmacy also lacks the capacity to carry all of the medications its patients need, Watts said, meaning half of them have to get their prescriptions filled at Walgreens or Bartell’s. The top-two floors of the dental clinic building will include eight market-rate apartments, with an even mix of one-bedrooms and studios, which will provide a con-
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sistent revenue stream for Country Doctor. Watts said Marathon Properties will manage the apartments, and is helping Country Doctor determine the rental rates that would be most reasonable. Country Doctor had discussed making the apartments available to low-income residents, but discussions with affordable housing developers led the nonprofit to realize it wouldn’t be feasible from an operations standpoint, Watts said. The hope is to start advertising the units soon. “People will have to rent them sight unseen,” he said. The building’s elevator will be double-sided, so clinic staff can enter on one side while residents enter through the other. Key cards will be also be used to keep the clinic side of the building secured. Country Doctor is constructing the building to meet LEED standards, but isn’t seeking certification. That includes adding features like a rainwater retention deck, solar panels on roof and a staff showering facility to encourage people to bike to work. Learn more about Country Doctor’s services at countrydoctor.org.
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MOORAGE, from Page 7 While the ordinance was not “crystal clear,” the judge said the city did hold a hearing before it signed a lease with Marina Management, and was in compliance with Initiative 42. Last year residents living near Volunteer Park were unsuccessful in using Initiative 42 to fight the loss of parkland for the Seattle Asian Art Museum expansion. Lakewood would lose all 12 of its 20-foot slips under the new configuration proposed by Marina Management, as well as 12 30-foot slips. Seven 50-foot slips would be added, plus one 54-foot slip, two 35-foot slips and a 96-foot slip, none of which are current options at Lakewood. Despite some residential claims, Joers said, the shore does not provide the means to create a yacht basin. None of these moorage figures include dry dock space or guest moorage facilities. Friends of Lakewood Moorage member Jeannie O’Brien said plans to replace two docks with larger slips will not only result in larger boats being able to dock at the marina, but it will also result in higher fees that are expected to push out longtime tenants and Trimmed size sailboats. their smaller �.� xJoers � said construction costs can end up being very high, and Retail there may be a desire to recover Coated those costs in moorage fees, “but it doesn’t matter, because you’re not going to be able to charge more than the market rate.” Rates at the Lakewood and Leschi marinas are already low, he said, because of their current condition. A 24-foot slip at one of these marinas has a $196 monthly rate, where a 25-foot slip at Harbor Island West Marina has a monthly rent of $431.25. Parkshore Marina in Seward Park charges $250$260 per month to rent a 26-foot slip, while Leschi and Lakewood marinas currently charge around $212. The nearby Spinnaker Bay Marina has 30-foot slips for rent
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at $350 per month with a one-year lease, while Leschi and Lakewood currently charge $244 a month at that size. Leschi South tenant Remmert Wolters said he expects the rate he pays to go up 50 percent when the marina project is completed. Leschi South is proposed to lose all 30 of its 24-foot slips, but will have 52 25-foot slips in its replacement, and another 52 30-foot slips and two each of 60- and 62-foot slips. The replacement project also cuts 60 26-foot slips, which are not considered usable. Seattle Parks and Recreation had been taking income from the moorage rates for years, Wolters said, but without any significant maintenance in 15 years. “I’ll probably end up getting pushed in a 30-foot slip, and my moorage rates will probably double,” Wolters said, “but you can’t blame Marina Management.” Wolters said the private operator has taken over neglected moorage with derelict boats that haven’t paid fees in years. Removing those vessels is now also Marina Management’s problem. “The boats, you literally cannot give them away,” Joers said of the derelict vessels left at the marinas. O’Brien, an attorney, whose family uses Lakewood Moorage for its 24-foot motorboat, said Marina Management lied when it communicated to residents that usage wouldn’t change after construction. There is an existing building on Ohler’s Island that provides Lakewood tenants with shower facilities and other amenities, but the lease agreement contemplates adding to the marina a food and beverage concession, plus kayak, canoe and paddle board rentals. “It’s overkill,” O’Brien said of the project. “We don’t need that. People have survived for a long time. All we want is our docks fixed.” While some residents would prefer to have the docks replaced in the same configuration they’re in today, Joers said the city wouldn’t permit such a project, because the current marinas are not up to code. Pilings have to be replaced, the docks have to be ADA-accessible and there are also coverage standards, he said. Widening slips means losing some spaces. Joers adds there has been a steady decline in purchases of small boats, but that those vessels are also easier to pull out of the water and store on a trailer, as opposed to larger boats that require year-round moorage. The South Leschi marina is in the worst condition of the three, and needs to be replaced first. The outer row of floats at South Leschi were removed in July 2017, according to Seattle Parks and Recreation’s Determination of Non-Significance, because they had sunk and created what the Seattle Department of Construction and Inspections deemed a safety hazard. Putting a plywood surface down at South Leschi would help create more “structural rigidity” in the interim, Joers said, but is not feasible due to current conditions. “The rot’s such that it won’t
even hold,” he said, which is why replacing the moorage sooner than later is so critical. “When it’s done, it will be a real benefit to the community and the businesses.” North Leschi, which is expected to be replaced last, is gaining one 60-, 70- and 80-foot slip, plus an additional 25 25-foot slips. All 43 of North Leschi’s 28-foot slips and 46 38-foot slips will go away. Plans are for 22 30-foot slips, 21 slips at 40 feet and 10 at 50 feet. Joers said the City of Seattle will manage the installation of breakwaters and pumpouts on its own schedule. “We’re not going to allow that to slow us down,” he said. “We’ll put these (moorages) in regardless. You’d rather have the breakwaters in before.” Plans are to construct the new moorages offsite, then demolish the old structures, and tow in the new docks. Joers said Marina Management is still working on plans for relocating current tenants when demolition starts at their marina. “We’ve got some ideas in terms of places to put people at the other marinas,” he said, “but there is going to be inevitably some impact in terms of a number of boats.” Friends of Lakewood Moorage also argued in its motion for summary judgment that the city did not follow the State Environmental Policy Act, which requires further environmental analysis of the impacts of the replacement projects. Shaffer determined that a SEPA action was not required because the use of the property for moorage will not change, and the lease between the City of Seattle and Marina Management contemplates environmental review as development permits come through. O’Brien tells MPT that larger, diesel-powered boats using the marinas will have an increased negative environmental impact, as will increased activity planned at the marinas. Friends of Lakewood Moorage is continuing the fight through the Washington Court of Appeals. O’Brien said attorneys for the City of Seattle and Friends of Lakewood Moorage met on Sept. 6, and it remains unclear whether a compromise can be reached that satisfies both parties. Friends of Lakewood Moorage have an Oct. 19 deadline to provide its opening brief to the Court of Appeals. The expectation is to have a proposal from the city to offer at the Oct. 9 Friends of Lakewood Moorage meeting to discuss whether it may be acceptable. O’Brien said the proposal she would accept would be to amend the lease agreement and require Marina Management to remodel the moorage at its current configuration. That would also make her comfortable with dropping her SEPA appeal with the Hearing Examiner, which is set for a hearing on Jan. 22. Friends of Lakewood Moorage will meet 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 9, at the Lakewood Seward Park Community Clubhouse, 4916 S. Angeline St.
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