MyNorthwest—Report: Advisory committee considers idea of eliminating zoning for single-family homes in Seattle.
If adopted, ideas being considered by a Seattle housing committee would be devastating to the city’s appeal, KIRO Radio’s Dori Monson said.
Get rid of single-family zoning in Seattle. That’s the big message in a draft report being worked on by Mayor Ed Murray’s housing committee, obtained by The Seattle Times.
According to a draft letter, the city needs to move away from the idea that all families can live in their own home on a piece of land, the Times reports.
“Today, as Seattle expands rapidly and experiences massive economic and population growth, we are held back by policies and historical precedents that are no longer viable for the long-term survival or our city,” the draft letter from committee co-chairs Faith Pettis and David Werthheimer states.
The draft letter says that single-family zoning has “roots in racial and class exclusion. The zoning remains “among the largest obstacles to realizing the city’s goals for equity and affordability,” the Times reports.
“So owning your own home, on your own lot, is a blow against equity, according to this draft report,” Dori said.
Some of the challenges the city faces includes almost two-thirds of the urban land being restricted to single-family homes, the letter continues. The letter considers increasing density almost everywhere in the city, the Times reports.
With a 19-3 vote, the committee recommends replacing single-family zoning with zoning that would allow for more multi-unit buildings, according to the Times.
That means developers are going to buy up homes and turn them into duplexes and apartments, if the draft is approved, Dori said.
The draft is a working copy, which was seen by the committee last week, the Times reports. Pettis told the Times that parts of it were revised.
The draft recommendation is an example of the problem with the city, Dori said.
“This city is becoming unrecognizable,” Dori continued. “This is a blow against tradition.”
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Thankfully, I live in the country, and in a different county, but I’m sure something ‘effed up is heading our way soon.
I live on the East Coast on 200 acres. I’m waiting for the government to say you can’t have 200 acres. It isn’t fair.
Please don’t let this dumbass idea cross the Cascades and come over to Eastern Wash. I love the Ballard area in Seattle, it’s a beautiful old established neighborhood in N Seattle. Wonder if they’ll try the same idea around Green Lake or on the E side of Lake Washington around Bellevue? Why can’t the progs just leave us alone? Maybe it’s we time establish prog free neighborhoods where we can live freely in a neighborhood of our choosing. What bunch of ninnies whose shorts are all bunched up in a wad if everyone is not the same and miserable as everyone else. Maybe they can get all the white folks to want to move to the Rainier valley area of Seattle. let’s see how well that would go over.
Attn: All socialists, liberals, Marxists, perpetually offended, Fascists, Communists!!!
Move to Seattle immediately! Your fondest wishes will come true and Utopia awaits!
Especially settle in the path of the pyroclastic flow, um, I mean, in view of beautiful Mt. Rainier!
The Norwegians who originally established the Ballard area of Seattle in the early 1900’s might want to all come back and go full Viking on this dumbass idea and the idiots who are proposing it.
Owning your own home is now racist…
You know, I would love to own my own house. I currently own an apartment in a cooperative housing complex, and I an SO over co-ops. My neighbors are pretty low-class, the corporation’s directors are all batshit crazy, and the managing agent is a total Nazi. I’ve gone through periods in this place where I had as much stress at home as I did at work. And all this is really a shame, because it’s a nice apartment in a wonderful location.
Don’t these dipshits get that people aspire to single-family home ownership because they crave control over their own lives, not to mention some peace and quiet? So the leftist urban planners in Seattle think that’s racist? Yeah, well fuck them. I wouldn’t want to sign on for the huge responsibility of owning a house, only to have the neighborhood overrun with too many people intent on transforming the place into some third-world hellhole.
Unless you’re a politically correct minority and have somehow obtained it by stealing it from whitey or having it subsidized by the man.
I think even white people will now be restricted to 40 acres and a mule.
Stan Boreson is rolling over in his grave (and he’s not even dead yet).
What a wonderful idea for Mercer Island. I think a Somali relocation center for Mercer is also a top notch idea.
Sorry to hear your life in Yonkers sucks the big one. I really feel sorry for you.
I lived in a big city my whole life in a very small apt.
I dreamed of one day having a home of my own with no one around for miles.
When I retired that’s what I did. I bought 200 acres and built my dream house on it with a swimming pool and horses and my own 18 hole golf course.
I retired at 50, I’m now 61. This is the way to live. Not jammed all together.
Wide open spaces. Don’t fence me in, bro. Someday. Someday….
It would never happen on Mercer Island. Too many established old white families live there including my brother and his girlfriend. They ain’t giving it up, that’s for the suckers in the poorer neighborhoods.
Check out the Wildlands Maps via Agenda 21 – that’s really all that’s going to matter anymore
All the Internationalists have infiltrated or subjugated the Feds, the States, and the Local govts…
International Residential Codebook been adopted by your town, yet?
NO LIFE FOR YOU !!!
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But what about all the homeowners that can suddenly “identify” as a minority? Instant integration, instant fix!
Have you seen the housing prices in Seattle lately, a modest older house in Ballard sells for 300-500K? How are the poor folks supposed to afford that when even hardworking white people and others are having a hard time making large payments for their houses? And if Boeing or Microsoft etc. ever leave Seattle for good it could be as bad as Detroilet.
But what about all the homeowners that can suddenly “identify” as a minority? Instant fix!
You are never a home owner. Even when it is paid off, you are still renting it from the government. Don’t pay your taxes one year, and you will find out what you own.
@illustr8r: get out of there NOW!
True. But me personally, I would rather rent it directly from the government than rent it from someone who rents it from the government.
@LadyGun I know. We love our house and we have a beautiful view that we’ve worked hard to afford. We have a pot smoking passive aggressive liberal hippy neighbor we absolutely hate (long story).
I can truly appreciate needing 200 acres because a half acre is obviously not big enough.
but…Mr Illustr8r is in the tech industry so Seattle is the place to be-for now. 🙁
Wow! The rodents of this land are taking over single family properties?
I never thought I’d see the day when vermin dictate where people live.
Welcome to Obama’s world.
They are going to do it everywhere. This is Agenda 21.
Please, please go online and read about Agenda 21. It is global governance and it is coming to your neighborhood.
Folks, you are probably just starting to gain some appreciation for just how screwed up Seattle is. But guess what, it is more than ten times as screwed up as you are beginning to realize it is. It is a hell on earth, I have two relatives who are in the medical field in Seattle and one in Portland and all patients have to fill out a medical history and the shitfinger progs are all on antidepressant meds and this is because they have created hell right here on earth with all their grandiose ideas and social engineering being put into practice. But the morons cannot figure out that their own misery is in any way connected to their own actions and the actions of like minded tyrants. They are in every way imaginable a menace.
I would love to build a fence around Seattle and sit back and watch a show that would make the Roman Circus look like a walk in the park.
Take it and shove it Soviattle. Keep your utopian bullshit to yourselves.
Why do they keep pushing the commune housing projects type of BS over and over? It has been tried, ever drive the cross Bronx expressway?
Bible quiz – where is the warning about building house unto house?
This has zero to do with diversity and all the liberal bullshit. This is all about the money.
If one homeowner pays say $5000 a year in property taxes, the committee reasons that if you put 4 condos on the same property, they can charge $2500 a year in taxes and double their revenue for the same piece (size) of property.
Trust me. If the gov’t couldn’t charge more in property taxes for all multi-family units combined that replace a single family house, this new zoning would go nowhere.
Two quotes from Ayn Rand should put a stop to this Libtard Collectiviest Statist Socialist Altruist Stoopidity. A firm, resounding, emphatic “NO! WWNC!” (We Will Not Comply) will help. That, and a buttload of laughter (Libtards HATE to be laughed at)
“Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).”
“The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.”
“build a fence around Seattle.”
To keep people out? Or keep people in?
(and would you sell tickets?