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✦ Some neighbor suggestions to move the developer towards an exemplary Living Building. The developer and the architect have not responded or taken the suggestions seriously.

https://5252california.blogspot.com/p/neighbor-suggestions-may-4-2023.html

 ✦ Neighbors' for a Living Building petition to SDCI to insure safe demolition of three buildings on-site with known asbestos contamination and possibly other toxins.

https://5252california.blogspot.com/p/neighbors-petition.html

✦ Design Review for the Recommendation Proposal (submitted 29 September 2023) and other documents for the Master Use Permit (MUP) are available through the Seattle Department of Construction and Inspection (SDCI) web site: 
https://web6.seattle.gov/dpd/edms/
Type in the MUP Record Number: 3040026-LU
Just the Design Proposal is available at:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/12NxJC7BZPEpd2hsWCiunZGyhH0yMdNYG/view?usp=drive_link

✦ Design submissions for the Early Design Guidance (EDG) Review (February 2023) are available through the Seattle Department of Construction and Inspection (SDCI) web site:
https://web6.seattle.gov/dpd/edms/
Type in the EDG project Record Number: 3040033-EG

✦ Public comments for EDG phase for the project are also stored on the SDCI website:
https://cosaccela.seattle.gov/portal/Cap/CapDetail.aspx?Module=COSPubComments&capID1=22CAP&capID2=00000&capID3=03FMM&agencyCode=SEATTLE&IsToShowInspection=

✦ Public comments for MUP phase for the project are also stored on the SDCI website: https://cosaccela.seattle.gov/portal/Cap/CapDetail.aspx?Module=COSPubComments&capID1=23CAP&capID2=00000&capID3=01WLN&agencyCode=SEATTLE&IsToShowInspection=

✦ The West Seattle Blog has a few entries with comments.

May 7, 2023:
https://westseattleblog.com/2023/05/development-aegis-living-meets-with-neighbors-of-california-avenue-sw-project/

April 26, 2023:
https://westseattleblog.com/2023/04/redevelopment-neighbors-organizing-informational-meeting-for-5252-california-senior-living-project/

February 2, 2023:
https://westseattleblog.com/2023/02/development-aegis-living-plan-for-5252-california-sw-sails-through-first-southwest-design-review-look/


✦ The City's Living Building Pilot Program is summarized here:
https://seattle.gov/sdci/permits/green-building/living-building-pilot-overview


✦ The International Living Futures Institute's Living Building Challenge 4.0 is:
https://living-future.org/lbc/


 ✦ Membership of the South West Design Review Board is linked here:
https://www.seattle.gov/sdci/about-us/who-we-are/design-review/boards-and-staff#southwest_x92437

 



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