New Crown Hill apartments get the green light

The address makes it appear this is North Ballard

Nice addition to the neighborhood. 15th Ave NW should be at least four stories up and down the corridor.

“Change is good!”
Later:
“This place looks like everywhere else.”
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“Seattle is unique.”
Later:
‘This happens everywhere why are you mad?”

UGH – THIS AGAIN !!!!!

36 apartments…. 28 vehicles…..

And these apartments will be expensive as hell and attract 2 vehicle families. I live in this neighborhood so I know exactly how good the public transportation is.

Why is it so hard to be realistic? 36 apartments = AT LEAST 36 additional vehicles.

Taki’s has a plan…we aren’t losing them.

All my friends living in Ballard don’t own a car. I know it’s hard for old people to believe, but young people don’t want to own cars. Why would you want to pour a ton of money into a rapidly depleting asset. Uber, car2go, bus, bike. It’s the future peiple.

Maybe if the boomers weren’t so car-centeric they could afford to eat out in Ballard.

@Concerned
I see lots of millennial hipster women driving their cars around, and why the boomer hate? The millennials bought all the bankrupt, warmed over 60s/70s boomer crap wholesale, and are the same type of entitled goobers who believe in New Age nonsense and magical woo woo solutions to problems. Yoga, anyone? Tax hikes, anyone?

You’re right about cars, but from the looks of it Seattle isn’t giving the autos up anytime soon.

I hope they rip down that strip joint, it’s a magnet for slimeballs at that intersection.

Haha old people – my god I was born in the 80s I am ANCIENT! Everyone I know has a car, but in my neighborhood (which is about 5 blocks from this building) every young family on my block (30 something’s so yeah probably “old people”) have two cars!! Per family! I think they want them because they have children, like ease of getting to grocery store, other parts of Seattle, etc. I’m all for public transport, but it has hardly kept up with the number of people moving to Seattle and moving into our totally sweet denser neighborhoods. So that incentivizes car ownership as well. Wealthier people are moving into the new construction and wealthier people prefer to drive and not spend hours on the bus. Maybe that’s good, maybe it’s bad, but it is what actually happens. So not planning for parking is just ignoring reality. I’m sure part of the plan is that it won’t affect traffic at all either. Why would it lol

If wealthy people prefer to drive, then certainly they have the money to pay for parking.

Sure this place will add some cars to the neighborhood (I really doubt 2 per unit– there are many one car families like mine that get by just fine even with kids). But the reality is there’s still plenty of parking available in this neighborhood and if it truly becomes scare, people will gladly pay.

I don’t think this building in this location is going to attract the “wealthy, multi-car/multi-kid families” people are envisioning. I suspect residents of this construction will be more moderate-income singles, couples, and young families with at most one car, or none.

That’s pretty funny Julie because I don’t own a car yet I go skiing, hiking, kayaking, etc. frequently.

See there’s these things called busses. In fact some even go from the the city to local trail-heads.

And by bussing to work w/o a car, I save a shit-ton of money and rent an SUV at least once a month (and still come out way ahead w/o having to look for precious parking in the city).

“Can’t take an Uber or Car2go skiing, hiking, kayaking.”

This is the problem. The old people don’t understand how the world works.

I take a car2go hiking every weekend in the summer.

Here’s an idea. Build the infrastructure first THEN start up building. Think our bus system is good enough to support growth without cars? For those millennials who think it’s so easy, do an experiment and travel from this location to Tacoma, Redmond, Everett then Portland and Vancouver B.C. and see how long it takes you. How much does it cost? Now add bags, a stroller with a 20lb bag of rice and your dog just to simulate a non-single person experience. If we had a system like Japan, building a big apartment complex with no parking would be no issue….but we don’t. Focus on infrastructure.

I read that the building will have 60 off-street parking spots. Is that correct?

From the city’s PDF: “The proposed development includes 40 residential units with 60 off street vehicular parking spaces.”

There will undoubtably come another massive apartment building where currently stands three closed business storefronts in one building and the former Bento Sushi. I hope the city is wise and allocates more frequent bus 15, D-Line and 40 trips in peak hours. There are certainly plenty of Lime Bikes and Car2Go to accommodate the new neighbors.

P.S. The developer is going to need to pave that alley if that’s where parking will be accessed. It’s a pothole dirt road MESS not suitable for garbage collection, let-alone 60 cars coming and going daily.

Wild Orchid restaurants, delicious!

I wish they would fix the traffic on the 15th and 85th intersection then. If you’re heading East on 85th they’ve purposely installed these sideway barriers that bottleneck cars into one lane each way. It’s created a ton of unnecessary traffic heading from Sunset Hill to the freeway. Those pedestrian lights could have been implemented without adding the barrier…