-UPDATE-
As many of you know, I have been keeping up on the Dome District Association's planning meetings. They are attempting to voice their concerns about the city's master plan of the area, and propose a new master plan to the city. One of the pressing issues at the moment is the Sound Transit extention that will connect the existing Sound Transit Seattle Tacoma route to Lakewood.
They are attempting to voice their issues with that Sound Transit line to the city, and have an upcoming meeting with them [the city] on October 2nd. Sound Transit has rerouted the line in order to compromise with the plan that the AIA proposed last year. However the Dome District is concerned that the city has not done its due diligence in factoring in the impact of a train crossing at Pacific Ave between 25th and 26th streets.
The Dome district is asking the Emerging leaders for help with this upcoming meeting on October 2nd. They would like us to take a look at the existing Sound Transit proposal and to illustrate the intersections to show the impact on the area. After being involved in this for a while it seems that the biggest problem at this time is that their is no clear and concise study showing the impacts of the intersection.
What does exist is the Sound Transit design proposal that was given to the city. This information is mostly engineering section diagrams of the intersections and a perspective of the Pacific Ave overpass. Our job is to take this information and communicate it in a clear way so that all parties can understand what exactly the design peramters of the area are.
The ultimate goal is to integrate much of the city's master planning ideas and to help the Dome District put its ideas into motion. However this work can not proceed without knowing just exactly what we are designing around.
Anybody interested?
I am planning an informational meeting on Monday the 22nd at TCF Architecture at 5:30pm. Sorry for the late notice, but this whole process is moving very very fast.
You can reach me at JR@TCFArchitecture.com
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