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Design Review is a discretionary process in which land development proposals are judged by a third party, independent of the project client and the developer, that reports to a local government entity. In Seattle, the City ensures the right to due process in Design Review through the use of Citywide and Neighborhood Design Guidelines. Community members may give feedback on a project-by-project basis and in the creation of Neighborhood Design Guidelines. Research on how well Design Review serves the public focuses largely on public engagement on a project-by-project basis, and not in the creation of Design Guidelines. How the City engages the public when creating Neighborhood Design Guidelines, who is involved, and why it matters have been left unasked, but are more relevant than ever in Seattle as the City considers how to standardize outreach for Neighborhood Design Guidelines. To help planners answer these questions, this thesis provides an assessment of how Seattle recently updated the Design Guidelines for the Capitol Hill neighborhood.
This book is a study of design initiatives and policies in five US West Coast cities -- Seattle (including Bellevue), Portland, San Francisco, Irvine and San Diego--all of which have had particularly interesting urban design experience of relevance to practice in Britain and other countries.Although these cities are not a representative sample of all American design practice, they provide a rich vein of ideas about recent policy development and current initiatives which will stimulate thought about the formulation of effective design controls. The presentation of substantial extracts from key documents that underpin design controls in the five cities will be of interest, inspiration and practical use to academics and practitioners who want to know more about American practice and who want to contribute to improvements in the standards and quality of urban design policies and design control.The opening chapter provides a national context and a comparative framework for the study, with a focus on international perspectives, American planning systems and the development of criteria for comparison and evaluation. The five subsequentchapters take each city in turn, briefly reviewing the salient characteristics of each one before presenting an account of how planning and design policy have evolved in the last twenty-five years; key features of the contemporary systems of design control are highlighted and a summary evaluation is made. The focus in the case studies is on how policy and guidance have been formulated, structured and presented in the various documents that make up the policy framework, how the process of control operates, and how both respond to the criticisms commonly made of design and control. This final chapter draws general conclusions about the experience of the studied cities of wider relevance to American design review practice, but which are of interest to those engaged in design review and policy formulation everywhere.