Seattle Department of Planning and Development

Due to an surprisingly enormous quantity of applications, we're operating behind on our evaluations by as much as four weeks for Initial Plan Reviews and 2 - four weeks for Corrected Plan Reviews. Your challenge might be assigned a reviewer once possible. Instead of calling us to your challenge status, please use Permit & Complaint Status or get real-time standing updates via the DPD Project Portal. We take pleasure in your endurance and realizing whereas we work via this spike in applications.


This is the message that observed the submittal this week by our commercial actual property manufacturer Van Gogh Development Corporation to the City of Seattle Department of Planning and Development (DPD) for a trend within the Rainier Beach community.


Wow! Four weeks!?


What is "Initial Plan Review?" I am having a tough time discovering a definition of what this comes to from the DPD website. I am hoping that this would no longer imply it's going to take FOUR WEEKS for a City group consumer to make a web page go to to our property.


DPD's Design Review Program evaluations varied sides of a constructing and its site, adding a few of the following:

The general appearance of the building

How the notion relates to adjoining websites and the general highway frontage

How the notion relates to strange sides of the site, like views or slopes

Pedestrian and vehicular entry to the site

Quality of materials, open space, and landscaping


DPD holds public conferences for complete Design Review that contains overview by City group and the Design Review Boards. Their overview task contains an probability for public remark and involvement.

But why the large delay?


According to City of Seattle stats, there have been 440 constructing allows issued within the month of January 2014 alone, worth virtually $87million. This compares to 306 constructing allows issued in January 2013 for a whole worth of roughly $55million.


U.S. builders broke flooring on properties on the quickest tempo in extra than five years, solid proof that the housing restoration is accelerating regardless of upper loan rates. Construction of single-family properties jumped 21 percentage to an annual tempo of 727,000, also the optimum in extra than five years. Apartment construction soared 26 percentage to a 354,000 annual pace. Though new properties represent just a fraction of the housing market, they have an oversized effect on the economy. Each residence constructed creates an typical of three jobs for a year. For extra information, please see:
http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/US-home-construction-hits-highest-pace-in-5-years-5074701.php


Happy Investing!

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