Marie McKinsey
- Jun 5, 2021
- 2 min
The Alki 11 Row House Project: Density Done Wrong
In 2013, a developer announced plans to replace these three beach houses with an 11-unit row house project in the Alki Beach neighborhood.
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Marie McKinsey
- Oct 2, 2015
- 2 min
Were Sewer Breaks on Wickstrom Place Caused by Development?
During the weeks of controversy over the permitting of the Alki 11 rowhouses that now face 55th Ave SW and Wickstrom Place SW at Alki Beach,
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Marie McKinsey
- Jul 13, 2013
- 4 min
The Sustainable Alternative to the Alki 11
I wrote this when I had become tired of pointing out the problems with this project. Our protests fell on deaf ears anyway. It was clear tha
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Marie McKinsey
- Jun 29, 2013
- 5 min
Will the Alki 11 Rowhouses Cause Flooding?
If you've been following these posts for a while, you are familiar with the math: for every inch of rainfall, nearly 5500 gallons of stormwa
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Marie McKinsey
- Jun 27, 2013
- 2 min
Over One MILLION Gallons of Waste Water - Where's It All Going to Go?
In my last post, I explained how the Alki 11 rowhouse project on 55th Ave SW will add more than one million gallons of combined waste and st
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Marie McKinsey
- Jun 19, 2013
- 2 min
How Much Sewage Will the Alki 11 Generate?
In an earlier post, I explained how to calculate the amount of stormwater runoff this project will produce. Now let's look at the amount of
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Marie McKinsey
- May 27, 2013
- 1 min
Here's Where Things Get Serious: The Environmental Impacts of the Alki 11 Row Houses
To really measure the environmental impact of a project, you have to look at what it replaces. When you compare the before and after, side b
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