Serving on one of Seattle’s Design Review Boards offers an excellent opportunity to provide guidance to the design of individual projects in the city and to stay abreast of development activity in your neighborhood. From now until Dec. 16, 2005, DPD is accepting applications for 10 board positions that will become open on April 4, 2006, when retiring board members’ terms expire.

For a full description of the opening positions, desired qualifications and the application process, please visit the Mayor's request for applicants. For more information on the Design Review program, please visit DPD's Design Review website.

About Design Review
Design review provides an alternative to prescriptive zoning requirements and fosters new development that better responds to the character of its surroundings. Each five-person Design Review Board holds public meetings twice a month during the evenings to evaluate the design of development projects based upon citywide and neighborhood-specific design guidelines. Projects reviewed include mixed-use developments, multifamily housing, and commercial projects of certain sizes.

Each Design Review Board includes a:

• design professional/architect (at large)
• development representative (at large)
• community representative (at large)
• business community representative (local)
• residential representative (local)