It's a potential $400 million redevelopment that could raise building heights up to 300 feet and bring upward of 10,000 new residents to Seattle's First Hill. But, so far, the Seattle Housing Authority has received just seven comments from the public on the environmental impact of turning 28 acres of public housing at Yesler Terrace into high rises and towers.
On April 28, the housing authority held an environmental "scoping meeting" that offered the public a chance to call out issues to look at in the environmental impact study that SHA has just started and plans to complete by the end of the year. Of the 45 people who attended last week's meeting (most of them Yesler Terrace residents who had gotten notices from SHA