HomeMy WebLinkAboutResident Submittal - HanbeyMayor and Council Members: March 3, 2024
I am wriƟng you to ask for your help. Last week you heard at the council meeƟng—and you will hear from others tonight—
about concerns from local residents in the adjacent neighborhood about a proposed development dubbed “Logan 6”.
We would like you to act on our behalf about this proposal and we have three specific concerns:
1) Parking: increase the parking requirement to keep parking off the adjacent neighborhood streets: having 1 parking
spot per unit, with units being between 1 and 3 rooms, is unreasonable. 100 parking spaces for 100 units, regardless of
size, will result in residents and visitors using the adjacent residenƟal streets (BurneƩ, Williams, etc) for parking.
Currently residents on BurneƩ make use of street parking, and there is no addiƟonal capacity. Current residents will be
forced to compete with residents from the development. An increase in the raƟo from 1 spot per unit to 1.5 per unit
for base units AND addiƟonal parking spaces required for each addiƟonal room will help miƟgate parking impacts. 1
parking spot per unit could remain for the “city core” but should be increased where the development is not near local
services (that is, within walking distance) as residents will be traveling in their cars; also, public transportaƟon linked to
increased development has not occurred. 1 space per unit may work in downtown, but it not tenable farther out.
2) Logan Access: require development on the Logan corridor to use Logan Avenue for access to keep addi Ɵonal traffic
off adjacent neighborhood streets. The increased zoning along this corridor is linked to Logan Avenue, which is a main
corridor. As shown below, the proposed development will have two entry/exit points, on N 3rd and N 4th Streets
(marked by the “X”s). The issues with not using Logan for entry/access is the 4 th Street access/exit is pulling traffic
through the North Renton Neighborhood, and because of the way the intersec Ɵon on N 3rd Street is configured, traffic
will be driven through the neighborhood. Traffic coming north on Logan Ave and along N 3 rd Street cannot access the
entrance as there is a barrier there, due to the heavy traffic flow at this intersec Ɵon. Vehicles will need to either cross a
lane of traffic and travel north on BurneƩ Avenue (a very dicey opƟon with traffic flow) or they will conƟnue along N 3rd
Street and head north on Wells Avenue or Pelly Avenue to access 4th Street to head back to enter on 4th (Williams Ave is
one-way, southbound). Thus, without Logan access, the development will drive traffic through the neighborhood and
onto the residenƟal streets. The developer or the city assumes vehicles will access the development using Park Avenue,
five blocks away. This assumpƟon is untenable and is not reflected in traffic analyses submiƩed for the development.
3) Design Standards: delay or postpone the proposed development unƟl the city “protects edges of single-family areas
by improving design standards.” The City Center Community Plan—adopted in 2011, revised in 2017—states the goal
(Goal #4) “Protect and enhance the residenƟal neighborhoods in the City Center” which includes the North Renton
Neighborhood. As part of this goal is “Enhance measures (such as set-backs, buffers, landscape screening, and height
restricƟons) to protect edges of single-family areas from adjacent development.” (pages 47 and 50). Since the city has
not “updated exisƟng design standards” or “new design standards” related to protecƟng edges of single-family areas
(p. 51), I ask that the proposed Logan 6 development be put on hold unƟl the standards have been revised.
MaƩ Hanbey—801 N 2nd Street, Renton, WA 98057—206/637-6337—hanbeym@gmail.com