A popular and changing neighborhood in Seattle has recommitted itself to urban design.
"[T]he Seattle Office of Planning and Community Development released draft changes for the South Lake Union design guidelines," reports Stephen Fesler.
The design guidelines were mostly recently revised in 2013, but these draft changes respond to rapid growth and development in the area since that time. "The existing guidelines are quite a bit thinner and shorter than the proposed changes," writes Fesler.
The changes organize into three general areas of urban design, which Fesler describes in ore detail: "context and site (e.g., urban form and patter, architectural context and character, and natural features), public life (e.g., walkability, street-level relationship, active transportation, and open space connectivity), and design concept (e.g., open space, architectural, and uses)."
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