Good to see things getting started. Funny the way things work out. The neighbors delaying the project should put more money in the owners hands. Also, the grade looks just the way it was before construction. Carry on.

“39th Ave Resident” –

Can I just see if I understand you correctly?

You believe established & invested Magnolians should simply give in to an Eastside developer, with no prior ties to Magnolia, who paid nearly twice the going rate for this parcel, gambling that their ties to City Hall would allow them to prevail with a loophole in a variance meant to save wetlands?

You give up too easy.

If this development moves forward as planned, it will negatively change this part of Magnolia, forever.

Typical. Knocked back on your heels, with cold hard facts and reality that don’t jibe with your vision, so you swing away with ad hominem attacks.

This development should not have been allowed to proceed as submitted by the City.

It all fits with the high density urban plan. Pack as many in as the developers can. The invasion into single family home neighborhoods has been going on for quite a while, Magnolia thinks they should be immune. Ahh…nope. Be thankful the economy tanked and you had your idyllic neighborhood for a bit longer. Now welcome your developer overlords with open arms and puckered lips the way Ballard did.

The developer has deliberately misstated what this site will look like. The City has been complicit in allowing the developer to build up the grade and start his first floor height calculations at the elevated grade (all of course for pure greed and views). As a homeowner, I am very excited that I can just bring in fill or move the dirt around in my yard to do exactly what this developer has been allowed to do.

The proof is in the pudding. Wait and see. It will look like a townhome crammed condo development – ruining this neighborhood forever. It is sad that the City does not care or even listened to the neighbors.

This development is what you call “ten pounds of crap in a five pound bag”. Way too many houses in such a small lot.

I think “Neighbor Dave” is actually the developer, or a friend. Or he’s crazy, because nobody in their right mind would think that this is a good idea unless they planned to profit from it.

HaHaHa, wrong . no developer. Just a happy neighbor. i will miss walking my dog on the PRIVATE PROPERTY.
Hope the developer does well.

Dave -

People investing in single family dwellings should not need to fear a rock crushing business opening up next door – hence zoning laws.

In this case, the developer siezed on a loophole in a variance designed to protect wetlands, and DPD doesn’t have the backbone to inject a little common sense into this farce.

PRIVATE PROPERTY does not mean you have the freedom to do whatever you want with your land.

Good greif.

That confirms it, “neighbor” dave’s cheese has slipped off his cracker. He still can’t list one good reason to buy one of these.
I’ll come right out and say that I hope the developer loses his shirt over this project. I think he actually will since there’s little reason to pay so much for a home in such a cramped neighborhood.
If this happens, call it retribution for barfing out so many homes in an area that obviously doesn’t support it.
He would have been better off building these homes on nice, large lots that people actually want to buy.

I truly believe that this person who calls himself “Neighbor Dave” is definitely not a neighbor. No one in our neighborhood recognizes his name and we live a block from the development. So, Dave, if you are a front man for John Cochenour, please stop your untruthful statements. You comments have no truth and do not speak for the neighborhood.

I think Michele’s comments do speak for the neighborhood. I live close by too, although not that close, and haven’t met one person who thinks this is a good idea.
And since “developer” Dave, er, I mean “neighbor” Dave is a bit sensitive, I suppose I’ll clarify my statement above… No I don’t like when people lose money, but in this case, it’d be great if this developer lost money on this project so he’d have less capital to ruin neighborhoods in the future.
The Lexington website actually shows some pretty nice homes on large lots. I wonder why they’re straying so far from what’s worked in the past? Let’s just hope the homes are nice, so we can refer to this as “ten pounds of nice crap in a 5 pound bag”.

Nobody “speaks for the neighborhood.” You speak for you.

I meant developer

Given that Lexington implied years ago that the Briarcliff homes would sell for $800,000 and up, it was interesting to see that the building permit for this first house claims the cost at just under $400,000. Assuming three stories and a basement garage, that’s about $100 per square foot, which does not sound like luxury construction to me. Of course the house’s anticipated sales price of $1 million has to include the cost of the land, which—to contradict an earlier post—was at the time considered a real bargain. Many of us still question why the financially-strapped school district sold so cheaply. It said it had to due to asbestos in the old school, but no abatement was done during the demolition, and Cochenour’s crew testified that there was no asbestos. It is sad to see how the existing trees that neighbor the west and south sides of the project are threatened by the excavation and re-grading that has been done—certainly demonstrates how little Cochenour cares about the neighborhood.

The Seattle DPD is to blame for this fiasco. They have repeatedly sided with an obviously greedy developer. The DPD director should be fired for such letting so many homes be built on built-up land in such a small space.
Didn’t the DPD also just approve the opening of a strip club right next to Safeco Field? Another obvious failure on the part of DPD. And aren’t they at least partly to blame for the Belltown highrise that is being taken down? I could be wrong here, but there seems to be a string of letdowns from DPD in the last few years.

I’ll think of that every time I hike in the Cascades or have a drink of cheap, clean municipal water from the protected Cedar River.

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