Four appeals of the proposed Ken’s Market expansion have been filed with the Seattle Hearing Examiner.
Each of the appeals take various aspects of the Seattle Planning Department’s written decision (.pdf file) to task. Everything from traffic impacts, to concerns about there being enough parking (and that parking being across the street), to the basement of the house behind the store being used for storage, to questioning whether the expansion conforms to the Greenwood/Phinney neighborhood Design Guidelines.
The Seattle Hearing Examiner’s office provided .pdf copies of the appeals for the business at 7219 Greenwood Ave. N, which you can view here:
Appeal 1, Appeal 2, Appeal 3, Appeal 4. UPDATE: Hang tight, we’re having technical difficulties setting these up for downloading… OK, it should be working now. Post a comment if it’s not.
Two are from residents on NW 73rd, one a resident on 65th and one from a former tennant displaced by the expansion. Demolition work is now under way.
According to a hearing examiner’s office employee, a pre-hearing is set for 9 a.m., Nov. 13, to give the parties a chance to “to consider identification, clarification and simplification of the issues, the disclosure of witnesses and exhibits to be presented, motions, and other matters as appropriate for the orderly and expeditious disposition of the proceedings.”
2 responses so far ↓
1 Jakey // Nov 6, 2008 at 4:33 pm
When I read through the appeals, I was expecting a bunch of whiny NIMBYs. However, each one of the appeals has merit and raises legitimate issues that don’t seem to have been adequately addressed.
As much as I love shopping at Ken’s and look forward to a bigger selection, I think they should step back and be more honest and realistic about the impact of their expansion. The parking situation is already impossible there during evening commute / dinner buying hours… a lot of people stop there on their way home. As much as we’d like less auto use, Ken’s is being shortsighted to think parking won’t be a mess with 3x the size of their current store. (More selection invites more customers who take longer per visit).
And I agree with Appeal 4… there is no way they can fit six more spaces in the Greenwood Mandarin shared parking lot without turning it into one of these driveways you see in the 6-plex and 8-plex townhouse structures popping up everywhere.
2 Neighbor // Nov 6, 2008 at 6:27 pm
Let’s close 73rd between the Ken’s alley and Greenwood and turn it into permanent parking. Everyone goes away happy, and I don’t have to read any more hippies’ handwriting on these PDFs.
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