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Old Posted Mar 7, 2014, 11:13 AM
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Alki, I hear and agree with some of your points. However, I also think that some of the "growth angst" that is being expressed is due to people forgetting that some of this development was to have already happened before the Great Recession hit. Instead the log-jam is being cleared and it feels like excess development when it's still barely making up ground. The pent-up demand is moving into slow-to-come-online units nearly faster than they can be completed.

I'm curious what happened to the talk about modular construction that drastically speeds up start-to-finish construction times? I think we've seen just one example of this with a Belltown project. But there was supposed to have been one or two projects like this in the U. District before the GR. Those projects still haven't started, meanwhile slow woodframe construction is still the only game in town as far as I can see.

Regarding access to and from WS to other parts of the city, I think this can be handled through more frequent rapid-ride buses and eventually (ideally) a rail construction that is fast start-to-finish. There could also be streetcar just in WS if density supports it. On that note, I don't know why streetcar construction here takes so long and doesn't seem to take as long in other cities.
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