Neighborhood Business District Strategy planning efforts are focused on providing an opportunity for citizens to generate ideas and input about shaping their urban villages and to generate continued public comment as DPD planners finalize the Neighborhood Business District Strategy.
DPD planners presented a draft proposal at two public forums in September 2004 and met with six neighborhoods in October 2004 to discuss mapping a pedestrian designation. The Mayor forwarded his recommendations to City Council in mid-2005. The City Council will hold a public hearing before making any changes to the commercial sections of the Land Use Code.
NOTE: All documents on this page are presented in Acrobat PDF format unless otherwise specified.
Upcoming Events
Upcoming events will be posted once they are scheduled.
- Council Hearing
November 28, 2006
City Council’s Urban Development and Planning Committee held a public hearing to take comments on the proposed Commercial Code revisions. (view hearing notice) - Panel Discussion
April 11, 2006
A panel discussion on neighborhood commercial area parking requirements. (See April 4, 2006 news story.) - City Council Notice for Additional NBDS Public Review
- Council Hearing
June 2, 2005
City Council’s Urban Development and Planning Committee held a public hearing to take comments on the proposal (view meeting notice and presentation). - Public Forum
April 13, 2004
The first public forum to gather input and ideas on the Neighborhood Business District Strategy (see event flyer, objective brochure, and public comments). - Neighborhood Workshops
June 2004
Six Seattle-area workshops were held to discuss the strategies and tools to protect and enhance Seattle's pedestrian-oriented, mixed-use urban villages with Seattle residents (see event flyer, agenda, and public comments and summary). View the presentation materials from each area workshop: - Northwest (3MB): Ballard, Crown Hill, Greenwood-Phinney Ridge, and Magnolia areas
- Northeast (2.9MB): Aurora-Licton Springs, Bitter Lake, Lake City, and Northgate areas
- North central (3MB): Fremont, Green Lake, Ravenna, Roosevelt, University, and Wallingford areas
- South central (3.1MB): Capitol Hill, Central Area, Eastlake, First Hill, Madison Park, Madison-Miller, Pike/Pine, Queen Anne, South Lake Union, and Uptown areas
- Southwest (3.1MB): Admiral, Alki, Delridge, Highland Park, Morgan Junction, South Park, West Seattle Junction, and Westwood areas
- Southeast (3 MB): Beacon Hill, Columbia City, Georgetown, MLK@Holly, North Rainier, Rainier Beach, and Rainier Valley areas
- Two Public Meetings
September 29-30, 2004
DPD planners presented a draft proposal to the public at two public forums (see event flyer, proposal brochure, presentation (10MB), anotated proposed code, background report, and public comments). - Six Neighborhood Meetings
Fall 2004
DPD planners met with community residents, property owners and business people in six neighborhoods to map the boundaries of the retail core in each neighborhood.
Getting More Information
For more details on the Commercial Code Changes, explore this website and read the proposal brochure (1.2 MB) or Description of Urban Development and Planning Committee Recommendations.
