Urban Village Plan OKd
30 April 2003 - 8:00am
The Seattle suburb of Kenmore adopts a plan to reshape the city's downtown and also adopts new zoning to encourage denser mixed-use development.
"Despite organized opposition, the City Council unanimously passed a plan to reshape the city's downtown, aiming to transform the Seattle suburb's parking lots and strip malls into a denser, pedestrian-friendly urban village and beautify a cityscape currently dominated by asphalt."
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The Seattle Times, April 29, 2003
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