New Northgate Design Guidelines will be effective August 1, 2010. Download a copy of the new guidelines here.
In the last two years, City staff pursued a number of initiatives to advance Northgate Urban Center planning. These included:
- completing a Final EIS about rezones in the Northgate Way corridor (published 12/21/09)
- completing amendments to the City's Comprehensive Plan
- completing updates of Northgate's Design Guidelines (effective August 1, 2010)
- completing green street concept designs for 3rd and 8th Ave. NE by adopting intoCiy rules (pending August 2010)
- adopted a "voluntary transportation mitigation payment process" to simplify methods of evaluating and resolving transportation mitigation needs (October 2009)
- evaluating Northgate Stakeholders' final guidance in Advice Memorandum #11
- evaluating next steps
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Work is now underway to revitalize Seattle's Northgate urban center. Over the past several years, key projects completed or under construction include:
Details may be found on our Northgate Projects page. |
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Stakeholders Since March 2004, a Stakeholders Group has provided broad-based representation of residential, business, property owner and citizen interests. This group has evaluated proposals and advised decision makers on key issues affecting the Northgate urban center. |
For a more detailed overview of the Northgate Revitalization effort, explore this website and read the summary of the Northgate Agreement, which was reached in December 2003 by Mayor Greg Nickels and Seattle City Council.
