| 1 | Mar 1, 2010 4:44 PM | Develop community-based guidelines for new buildings |
| 2 | Mar 2, 2010 4:45 PM | Absolutely limit large chain stores (including starbucks) - keep it local! |
| 3 | Mar 2, 2010 6:14 PM | A mixed use,neighborhood center for many activities including denser housing, activities for young chilcren and seating for older generation. |
| 4 | Mar 2, 2010 6:54 PM | I would love to see Wedgwood develop a more robust business district on 35th (similar to Greenwood, Fremont, Queen Anne). To achieve this we will need to change the zoning of some properties along 35th to allow commercial and to allow greater density. Design standards should be developed to ensure high quality future commercial projects that enhance the pedestrian environment. |
| 5 | Mar 2, 2010 6:54 PM | limit mixed-use 40' buildings on 35th |
| 6 | Mar 2, 2010 7:43 PM | Promote more restaurants on 35th |
| 7 | Mar 2, 2010 11:23 PM | character and quality of new development |
| 8 | Mar 3, 2010 2:48 PM | safe cross walks to businesses across 35th Ave NE |
| 9 | Mar 3, 2010 3:37 PM | more marked crosswalks in current business areas |
| 10 | Mar 3, 2010 4:30 PM | Put in public gardens, less lawn |
| 11 | Mar 3, 2010 4:56 PM | parking in back, storefront close to sidewalk & pedestrians |
| 12 | Mar 3, 2010 5:33 PM | In question 3, are you asking about re-zoning the single-family zoning sections of 35th Ave. NE? I would strongly oppose such a move. |
| 13 | Mar 3, 2010 8:08 PM | Traffic issues MUST be addresses for homeowners living within 2 blocks of the 35th AVE development, especially 85th through 92nd Streets |
| 14 | Mar 3, 2010 8:25 PM | Depends on chain stores, e.g. auto store no, well done book store or food store like Metropolitan Market, yes |
| 15 | Mar 3, 2010 8:29 PM | Small parks in business district; public art |
| 16 | Mar 3, 2010 8:31 PM | Encourage businesses useful to home owners - hardware, lumber, electrical, plumbing supplies, etc. |
| 17 | Mar 3, 2010 10:44 PM | Keep chains out. Keep houses on NE 35th street. |
| 18 | Mar 4, 2010 2:04 AM | no fancy plans that cannot be funded or saddle non-benefitting taxpayers need be considered |
| 19 | Mar 4, 2010 2:06 AM | Large stores might fit onto Lake City Way NE |
| 20 | Mar 4, 2010 2:26 AM | Not to remove single family homes. |
| 21 | Mar 4, 2010 3:17 AM | plants not murals (aka graffiti magnets); town square is too easy to get wrong (drugs, transients, crime) |
| 22 | Mar 4, 2010 3:54 AM | Road improvements |
| 23 | Mar 4, 2010 4:49 AM | I don't care for the "town square" idea where the homeless and unsafe situations can occur. |
| 24 | Mar 4, 2010 8:22 PM | Improve ease of parking for exisiting and new development. Is it better to have parking in front (e.g., mini-malls), side or back (out of sight, but safe?)? How and where would a town square space be developed??? |
| 25 | Mar 5, 2010 3:55 AM | A new and improved Safeway would be great! |
| 26 | Mar 5, 2010 4:56 AM | more family style resaurants |
| 27 | Mar 5, 2010 8:30 AM | Hum, I have no problem with chain stores. I shop at Target, and would love a Target to move into Wedgwood. As for diversity of business, the market will and should take care of that. If anyone can make a go of a business on 35th, I say that is great. Who is to say if it should or shouldn't be another Thai restaurant or a nail salon. Sure, I would love a great bookstore, but, the days of small independent bookstores is probably come to a close. |
| 28 | Mar 5, 2010 4:46 PM | We need to be more like Fremont or Ballard!! |
| 29 | Mar 5, 2010 5:19 PM | You should extend this continuous business district up to 87th |
| 30 | Mar 6, 2010 3:57 AM | Create smaller business storefronts 10 x 50 so more can fit in. |
| 31 | Mar 6, 2010 4:23 AM | Wedgwood residents and local business owners would be dominated by big business interests if chain stores increase any further in Wedgwood. |
| 32 | Mar 6, 2010 4:43 AM | murals are troublesome to maintain over the long run. |
| 33 | Mar 6, 2010 5:00 AM | Develop sign code regulations. |
| 34 | Mar 6, 2010 10:08 PM | Any major change of the face of Wedgwood business district would change the character of the area. |
| 35 | Mar 7, 2010 3:04 PM | I love the town square idea! |
| 36 | Mar 8, 2010 3:50 AM | Limit large chain stores, if possible. It can be hard to start little businesses. |
| 37 | Mar 8, 2010 4:39 AM | we still miss McVicars |
| 38 | Mar 8, 2010 5:29 AM | having a bike lane along 35th |
| 39 | Mar 8, 2010 8:37 PM | If create a town square would be nice to limit to ONLY locally owned businesses. |
| 40 | Mar 8, 2010 10:00 PM | Put parking in back or underground; put storefronts along the street. |
| 41 | Mar 9, 2010 3:37 PM | build more developments like Wedgwood Estates where there is quiet, secluded private space facing an inner courtyard, and businesses facing the streets. |
| 42 | Mar 9, 2010 6:26 PM | if development continues on 35th, please plant more trees and pay attention to the visauls. 70th to 75th is needs help!! |
| 43 | Mar 9, 2010 6:50 PM | more business=more traffic,congestion=BAD |
| 44 | Mar 10, 2010 5:00 AM | Need a town square space (easier said than done, I know)---but the Edmonds town center, even in a smaller scale in WW, would be ideal |
| 45 | Mar 10, 2010 5:22 AM | Hunter's property could be better utilized during the year, i.e. farmers market, etc. |
| 46 | Mar 12, 2010 9:20 PM | As my property borders the businesses on 35th between 80th and 82nd I would not want to see any of these businesses expanded or allowed to build up. No seven elevens or grocery store atmosphere. Keep it small,quiet and unabtrusive. |
| 47 | Mar 13, 2010 8:06 PM | could use a hardward store here |
| 48 | Mar 15, 2010 1:23 AM | No icky murals, please! One man's "art" can be another's atrocity. |
| 49 | Mar 15, 2010 8:06 PM | Maintain convenient parking without sacrificing appearances too much. |
| 50 | Mar 17, 2010 4:44 AM | Sidewalks and crosswalks to ease walking to local businesses are more important to me. |
| 51 | Mar 17, 2010 8:23 AM | We don't know what the zoning is exactly, but we would like to protect as much as possible of 35th Ave NE. The family that sells the Christmas trees (I'm sure everyone knows who we're referring to) has owned that particular property for at least 50 years or more. They also own all the property and all three houses on the West side of 35th between 88th Ave. NE and 89th, kitty corner to the Catholic church. We spoke to the tenant in one of those houses several years ago after we moved back to Wedgwood and he said he had been trying for years to purchase the house from them, but they refused saying they would ONLY sell all three houses, the whole eastern end of the block on 35th, to one person or one company. This disturbs us immensely since we live on 88th and 35th, and it should disturb everyone else in Wedgwood as well. That tells me that all we can look forward to is condos, or townhouses stacked together with 2 units per building {we lived in Eastlake, almost as close to downtown as you can get, for about 20-some years and we saw it happen there}, four feet between bldgs. and three or four stories high, or apts., etc. They also own multiple other properties in Wedgwood, and in other nearby areas [Bryant-Assumption] but we cannot swear to that and have not researched it; it was second-hand information. Unadulterated greed upsets us. Can you imagine what that would do to Wedgwood? Parking is bad already. Perhaps we should think about an underground garage, OR if someone IS going to put in condos or apts. MAKE THEM provide two parking spaces per unit so the rest of us are not further bothered by parking issues. Just the idea of any kind of development on that scale really upsets us. Look at what happened to the Stroum Jewish Center. They were forced to sell out at a bad time, for everyone it seems, and now it sits idle. It was so convenient, and it was always wonderful to see the children. It's so sad. Glad we're not going to be around to see the rest of the decline. |
| 52 | Mar 24, 2010 3:32 PM | Increase visual interest through better design. Put parking lots in back of businesses and pull the buildings onto the streets. Parking lots are visually boring and difficult to walk through. |
| 53 | Mar 27, 2010 4:50 AM | I wouldn't want the emphasis on business development to interfere with the possibility of park or recreational development. |
| 54 | Mar 27, 2010 5:12 AM | Frankly I am very happy with 35th Ave NE just as it is, and I patronize many of the businesses there, from dentists to lawyers to cafes to nail salons. |
| 55 | Mar 27, 2010 3:53 PM | Pragmatism is needed. Use what we already have, or add to what we have, not redo whole thing |
| 56 | Mar 29, 2010 2:32 AM | fight graffiti |
| 57 | Mar 30, 2010 2:53 AM | promote car-free with bike racks, walking areas and out of sight parking parking |
| 58 | Mar 30, 2010 4:20 AM | For the most part, current businesses are not very desirable destinations other than QFC |
| 59 | Mar 30, 2010 4:48 AM | How about a slow-speed 'jitney' service running up and down 35th btwn 65th and Meadowbrook (or even Lake City) for ten cents a throw? |
| 60 | Mar 30, 2010 1:45 PM | Plant Forest Garden and Fruit Trees for Food Security |
| 61 | Mar 30, 2010 11:39 PM | Isn't that Pharmacy a chain? There was a smaller pharmacy there before, with some other store fronts on that block. Tore it down and put up a mega store with a HUGE block long wall on 35th nice. |
| 62 | Mar 31, 2010 3:58 AM | Really it starts at 65th or 70th; Need focal area especially in dated section between 80th and 82nd; more planting and people spaces but fewer murals |
| 63 | Mar 31, 2010 6:00 PM | There should be a crosswalk at the post office. Somebody's going to get killed! |
| 64 | Apr 1, 2010 4:30 AM | More upscale restaurants. Hardware store. |
| 65 | Apr 1, 2010 7:57 PM | Reduce speeding on NE85th |
| 66 | Apr 1, 2010 8:10 PM | I would love to see guidlines for businesses for signange: All that dance has been in their location for YEARS and they have a temporary looking banner in the window. Please make a commitment to the neighborhood by making it look like you'll stay! |
| 67 | Apr 4, 2010 5:26 AM | 35th needs some cuteness and character. I like to walk, and I take my children up 35th sometimes to run errands, but when you compare it to other neighborhoods, it's just so boring. It lacks a cohesive personality. There are certainly some nice businesses, but their is a lot of empty space, that's not pretty or fun. Not enough incentive for people to come here from other neighborhoods. |
| 68 | Apr 4, 2010 11:23 PM | How dare you suggest that we spend money on "visual interest" items? Look at that skating wart on Dahl Field. What an embarrassment. |
| 69 | Apr 5, 2010 5:19 PM | I think you should go even futher with the the plan up to 95th it's a main exchange it's where the signage for Wedgwood and thats where it's starts not at 85th Have you looked at what North city has done? I kknow it's a challenge but |
| 70 | Apr 7, 2010 6:12 AM | Need a higher end restaurant/bar like Ballard has. |
| 71 | Apr 8, 2010 3:31 AM | I would like to Wedgwood have mixed-use space like in Ravenna, with apartments on second and third floors with restaurants on main floors. |
| 72 | Apr 8, 2010 3:39 AM | Do something with that dang building across from Laundromat/Javasti!!! |
| 73 | Apr 8, 2010 2:31 PM | the latter only if it's done with real class, not amateur |
| 74 | Apr 8, 2010 4:11 PM | improve access & parking for post office |
| 75 | Apr 8, 2010 5:33 PM | I would love to see development of the Hunter Tree Farm property - part park, part business. |
| 76 | Apr 8, 2010 7:35 PM | limit height of bldgs to 3 stories, inc. setback from street, limit front parking lots, inc. width of sidewalks or limit obstructions in sidewalks |
| 77 | Apr 9, 2010 4:21 PM | I am suspicious of the concentrated business "district"--integration into residential is a better model |
| 78 | Apr 10, 2010 5:33 PM | Enable complementary businesses with space for people to socialize without having to pay |
| 79 | May 3, 2010 1:42 AM | 4- Encourage Safeway to expand their hardware section-perhaps an entire aisle. |
| 80 | May 3, 2010 2:06 AM | Town Square: but where? |
| 81 | May 3, 2010 2:42 AM | Large Chain Stores: Depends on the chain |
| 82 | May 4, 2010 3:17 AM | no more large chain stores; need hardware store |
| 83 | May 7, 2010 5:07 AM | to do something that gives a sense of Wedgwood when coming into area. Not sure if that's possible. |
| 84 | May 9, 2010 4:46 AM | Encourage locally/independently owned businesses out. Keep corporations out. |