Residents fear Lawton (Seattle) proposal is "too urban"

Seattle Times ^ | July 20, 2008 | Sanjay Bhatt and Arla Shephard

[Lorianne]

As the military prepares to close Fort Lawton, an Army Reserve base nestled in Seattle's Magnolia neighborhood, a city proposal to develop a 200-home subdivision that includes housing for the homeless angers some residents. ___ A newly released city plan to redevelop the soon-to-be-closed Fort Lawton in Seattle calls for building a 200-home subdivision of market-rate and affordable housing on about 18 acres.

At a final community meeting Saturday at Fort Lawton, those living near the Army Reserve base said they didn't oppose housing for the homeless, but they worried that the total number of homes proposed and the percentage of units for the formerly homeless were both too high for their quiet, remote enclave next to Discovery Park.

About 40 percent of the proposed units — a 55-unit building for seniors and 15 duplexes for 30 families — would be set aside for the formerly homeless. Six town homes would be allotted to Habitat for Humanity. The rest would be market-rate town homes and single-family houses starting at about $500,000.

"We don't want to be urban," resident Lisa Schade told city officials. "The character you're imposing on us is urban."

[Lorianne]

You gotta love liberal NIMBYISM

[Psycho_Bunny]

The homeless scam is already oversold in Seattle. I can’t imagine who they’d put in these homes.

[enduserindy]

“We don’t want to be urban,” resident Lisa Schade told city officials. “The character you’re imposing on us is urban.”

LMAO! What did you expect to happen Lisa? Man that’s funny. Liberals, want to change the world, not their neighborhood.

[rockrr]

“Build it and they will come”...;’}

[Chode]

Fountainhead...