Environmental Review for Fred Meyer’s Greenwood Expansion

Thursday, March 11 is the next public comment on the environmental impact of Fred Meyer’s Greenwood expansion. This is an important project for our community and many have voiced concern on the impact to the peat bog.

Make sure to attend this meeting if possible and we’ll be sharing our coverage with the neighborhood.

MEETING DETAILS:
Thursday, March 11, 2010 at 7:00 p.m. at the Loyal Heights Community Center, Room 2, 2101 Northwest 77th Street.

Written and/or oral comments may be submitted at the meeting.

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Fred Meyer Greenwood Expansion – March Public Review Scheduled

Seattle’s Department of Planning and Development (DPD) is holding a public meeting to gather comments on the Fred Meyer project in the Town Center. This meeting is focused on information relating to soils and hydrology issues and to receive comment on other environmental issues.

A geotechnical report has been submitted by the developer which identifies the soils on the site and will allow designers to accommodate for the soil conditions.

It will address any peat found on the site and the potential impacts and/or recommendations for anticipated construction.

Electronic copies of the project are not available. Hardcopies may be obtained from the DPD Public Resource Center, 700 5th Avenue, Suite 2000 (206) 684-8467. The Public Resource Center is open 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and 10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday and Thursday.

MEETING LOCATION:
A public meeting to review this application will be held on Thursday, March 11, 2010 at 7:00 p.m. at the Loyal Heights Community Center, Room 2, 2101 Northwest 77th Street. Written and/or oral comments may be submitted at the meeting.
LINKS:
Fred Meyer Meeting Bulletin

Peat Settlement Issues

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Fred Meyer Greenwood Design Survey Results

As the Design Review Board approved the Fred Meyer Greenwood Design with comments from the audience, our survey showed the public roughly 57% supporting the project to 43% opposed. Some great comments from the survey are listed below:

Survey Quotes:
Why do I support the project? Because it has financial backing and will happen. GG.DDAG dreams of mix use development on this site are nice but unsustainable.

Combining the store and grocery makes sense, since they’re both already Kroger and shopping all together is convenient, and the current set up is pretty ugly (but I hope the combo would retain the local feel of Greenwood Market as well as good organics and bulk sections). But the neighborhood does not need 300 new apartments. Traffic is bad enough already, and new condo projects all over town are sitting incomplete with no buyers. A quick Craigslist search comes up with 285 apt listings with keyword Greenwood.

We don’t need a superstore in a small retail area.

Megastores are an abomination.

Can’t wait for this project to happen! We need a decent, low-price grocery in this area and to in-fill around Greenwood to build a better neighborhood.

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