2 Background (click here first)

Did you know that University Preparatory is expanding into our residential neighborhood?

• They have filed a permit to build a 39,630 sq ft, 3 story building with a partial basement and surface parking to expand their high school.
• North Seattle Friends Church (address 7740 24th AVE NE) and the NE Seattle Tool Library will be demolished.
• The project has been planned for the past 6 years without neighborhood input. Almost every project of this size in any other zone in the City would require multiple opportunities for public input and an interactive design review process between the City, the Client and the Public, which is NOT required for this private project.
• The expansion will increase enrollment at U. Prep. by 180 high school students; only 15 parking spaces are planned. Do you think this will affect parking and traffic on your street as high school students zip to get to school on time?

We are members of the neighborhood have been actively working to protest this project (since only the middle of August, as none of us knew before). Come join us and learn more and how to petition and protest the Conditional Approval provided for this project.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The Seattle Comprehensive Plan, first adopted in 1994, sets forth long term policies and goals for the City of Seattle. The Land Use element in Chapter 2 includes policies for the Single Family and Multifamily zones. Single Family policy LU65 provides as follows:

Control the location, scale, access and development standards of institutions and facilities in single-family areas in order to reduce negative impacts such as noise, traffic and parking problems and protect Seattle’s single-family housing stock through a conditional use or master planning process that considers:

1. Concentration of institutions of facilities

2. Bulk and siting

3. Traffic and parking

4. Demolition of residential structures

5. Height and scale.

There have been at least two Land use Interpretations requested by the Applicant and provided by SDIC referenced to this proposed project: Interpretation DPD Interpretation No. 13-010 on 04/24/2014, and DPD Code Interpretation No. 87-019 on 11/25/1987. Both interpretations are now being cited for justification to allow a 3-story, 39,500 SF private school to be rammed up against an existing single family neighborhood without any of the process requirements or rules that would apply to a public school.

Read the attached Site plan, Traffic Study and the City Interpretation (see below; also posted on the city website)

E-mail: ravenwoodunited@gmail.com if you want to get involved or if you would like additional information. Visit our What-to-do page for more information!