The new neighborhood

I went out in a car today! wow! There is so much more traffic in Seattle, the “fastest growing city in the USA” according to the news. Time for some city blips. Seattle is surrounded by water and there is no question that it needs to to densify somehow. But how?

Last august I blipped this house on Eastlake, my One Street. The house on the right is where Annie, my hair cutter, lives and works and she was busy on a scaffold painting the side of her house before the new one went in next door. Well, it’s now done. Not exactly the same angle but you get the idea from the telephone pole. A nice little single family dwelling has been replaced by FOUR 2000sf townhomes, all of which have space for a zoned live in business on the ground floor with kitchen etc. So that could translate into 8 units. There are 4 parking spaces in the back alley -the 2nd separate building is directly in back. (I know you want to know the price - each listed at $929,000!! and I don’t have to tell you there is no space from sidewalk to front of house or that those trees in between are gone…)

It’s not an apodment, or worse (one of those in a future blip) and it’s not THAT ugly ( I heard all about some of the building material problems from Annie) but it sure is changing the character of the neighborhood!

Once there was a home
Now there are 4-8 places
We call this progress?