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FEBRUARY 10, 2021
VOL. 102, NO. 6
Project cleared for next steps DRB signs off on 21Boston development
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By Jessica Keller
QA&Mag News editor
The Queen Anne Safeway/21Boston housing development project is back on track after Design Review Board West members signed off on the project at a meeting Feb. 3. The project, 2100 Queen Anne Avenue North, is for a mixeduse commercial and residential complex with a seven stories and 324 apartment units, including 65 affordable units, parking for 344 vehicles and a new 50,000-square-foot Safeway. The current 30,000-square-foot Safeway will be demolished. The housing is actually broken into three separate buildings, on Boston and First Avenue, Crockett and First Avenue North and on Queen Anne Avenue, which is also where the Safeway storefront will be. Developer Maria Barrientos, barrientosRyan LLC, said she wasn’t sure what to expect before last week’s meeting. “I was really nervous,” she said. Last week’s session was the second recommendation meeting for the project after the DRB members rejected signing off on
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Courtesy barrientosRyan This is a view of the new Safeway building and housing development looking northwest at the corner of Queen Anne Avenue North and Crockett Street. The corner includes a voluntary set-back of 8 feet, creating a pedestrian-focused community plaza. plans submitted in December despite receiving largely positive comments from the community, including Picture Perfect Queen Anne and the Queen Anne Community Council Land Use Review Committee. In their rejection, DRB members directed
the design team include a number of small measures in a new plan but were most concerned that it included changes to the storefront facade to show better definition and make it look like it was comprised of several storefronts or businesses.
The most recent plan didn’t include separate spaces for independent businesses, as a few of the DRB members, and some members of the community strongly pushed for in the
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Fate of advisory votes up for consideration in state Senate By Ruairi Vaughan Contributing writer
The Washington State Senate’s Committee on State Government and Elections convened Feb. 3 via video conference to discuss a bill that would put an end to one of the Evergreen State’s most divisive electoral practices — the
inclusion of advisory votes on ballots. Residents who have ever voted in a Washington election may be familiar with advisory votes. These ballot measures are the first items to appear on ballots — coming even before the presidential candidates, and they ask voters whether they want to “repeal” or “maintain” changes to state taxes
imposed by the state Legislature. Advisory votes were created in 2007 by anti-tax activist Tim Eyman and started appearing on ballots in 2012. Since then, dozens of these measures have appeared on Washingtonians’ ballots. There were so many advisory votes in 2019 that they covered the entire first page of the ballot. Despite their prominence on
the ballot itself, advisory votes essentially do nothing; they are non-binding, so even if voters vote to repeal a tax by overwhelming margins, lawmakers are under no obligation to do anything about it. Of all the advisory votes over the years, none has led to a change in
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