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Planning & Projects |
Transportation |
Mobility
Pilot
 The goal of
the Permit Review and Mobility Pilot for South Lake Union is to
improve the City's permit review process and link more meaningful
transportation projects with expected development in South Lake Union.
The City is undertaking this pilot to help improve mobility in South
Lake Union and identify funds for transportation improvements like
those recommended in the neighborhood plan.
The City's current approach to development review can lead to an
expensive process and piecemeal approach to traffic impact
mitigation (e.g., traffic signals, turn lanes) as opposed to helping
fund areawide transportation improvements (e.g., Mercer/Fairview
realignment). Also, transportation improvements are expensive and the
more funding that can be identified, the better.
A transportation consultant team will work with the City to review the
current approach to permitting development in already congested
neighborhoods such as SLU. Based on this work, the City and consultant
will identify ways to improve the permit process. An important part of
the consultant analysis will describe how the identified
transportation improvements reduce or eliminate the traffic impacts of
new development. It is expected that this approach will:
Link development projects to neighborhood plan-identified and other
areawide improvements and strategies to mitigate development impacts;
Increase predictability for development; and,
Provide for more expedient environmental review - smaller projects
that incorporate improvements and strategies may not need to go
through an EIS process due to transportation impacts.
For further information:
City of Seattle, Department of Design,
Construction and Land Use
Mike Podowski, DCLU
phone: (206) 386-1988
email:
mike.podowski@ci.seattle.wa.us
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