Seattle Commons Project Records

Seattle Commons Project Records, 1963-2001

Overview of the Collection

Creator: Seattle (Wash.). Office of Management and Planning
Title: Seattle Commons Project Records
Dates: 1963-2001 (inclusive)
19632001

1993-1995 (bulk)
19931995
Quantity: 5.6 cubic feet, (7 boxes)
Collection Number: 6320-01
Summary: Planning records for the Seattle Commons.
Repository: Seattle Municipal Archives
Seattle Municipal Archives
Office of the City Clerk
City of Seattle
PO Box 94728
98124-4728
Seattle, WA
Telephone: 2062337807
Fax: 2063869025
archives@seattle.gov
Access Restrictions: Records are open to the public.
Languages: English
Sponsor: Funding for processing this record series was provided through a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.

Historical NoteReturn to Top

In 1992 the Office of Long-Range Planning and Office of Strategic Human Services Planning were combined to create the new Planning Department, marking the first point since 1969 that planning and policy development for the City fell outside the direct control of the Executive Department. In addition to cultivating policy on land use, transportation, housing, the environment, human services, and urban design, the Planning Department's stated mission included the pursuit of local/regional planning collaboration as well as the evaluation of city policies for compliance with Washington's Growth Management Act and Seattle's Comprehensive Plan Framework Policies. The department was segmented into four divisions: Comprehensive Planning, Urban Research, Strategic and Special Projects, and Administrative.

In 1995 the Office of Management and Planning (OMP) was created by bringing together the Office of Management and Budget and Planning Department. OMP was the lead office within the Executive Department for community planning, budgeting, capital infrastructure analysis, forecasting, policy and economic analysis, and management.

In early 1998, the Mayor divided the Office of Management and Planning and formed a new Strategic Planning Office for policy planning in the Executive Department. The City's budget function was reorganized in the newly-formed City Budget Office, located in the Executive Services Department.

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

Records of the Office of Management and Planning, Planning Department and Office of Management and Budget concerning planning for the Seattle Commons and the South Lake Union area. The Seattle Commons was a proposed boulevard and park which would have stretched from Westlake Center to Lake Union, but which was defeated by voters in 1995. The planning also encompassed the Mercer corridor and surrounding South Lake Union neighborhoods. Records include correspondence, draft plans, studies, maps, subject files and documentation from earlier South Lake Union planning projects.

Use of the CollectionReturn to Top

Preferred Citation

[Item and date], Seattle Commons Project Records, Record Series 6320-01. Box [number], Folder [number]. Seattle Municipal Archives.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Arrangement

Arranged in three subseries: Subject files; South Lake Union plans; and Office of Management and Budget / Commons financing files.

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection.

Subject files, 1981-1997Return to Top

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Box/Folder
1/1	Commons Acreage	1993-1994
1/2	Paul Allen Gift	1995
1/3	Allied Arts	1993-1994
1/4	Seattle Commons Planning Alternatives	1992-1994
1/5	APA / PAW Award	1995
1/6	Bay Freeway Properties	1981-1995
1/7	Commons Briefing Memos	1992-1993
1/8	Commons Briefing Memos	1994
1/9	Capital Finance Review Board Report	1995-1996
1/10	Capital Investment Strategy	1994-1995
1/11	Cascade Neighborhood	1994-1995
1/12	Cascade Neighborhood Council	1993-1997
1/13	Cascade Park Study	1993-1996
1/14	Cascade Residents Action Group	1993
1/15	Cash Flows	1995
1/16	City Comments on Draft 2	1993
1/17	City Comments on Draft 1	1993
1/18	City Council	1993-1995
1/19	City Light Pilot Project	1994
1/20	Clearinghouse Group / Urban	1993
1/21	Combined Sewer Overflow Project	1994-1996
1/22	Commons Area Business Council	1994
1/23	Commons-Owned Properties	1994-1995
1/24	Community Organizations List	1993
1/25	Community Services	1993-1995
1/26	Commons Draft Concept Estimate	1994
1/27	Commons Staff and Board	1994-1995
1/28	Construction Mitigation	1995
1/29	Commons Correspondence	1991-1996
1/30	Commons Correspondence	1993-1995
1/31	Denny Regrade Community Council	1994
1/32	Denny Regrade Study	1994
1/33	Design Review	1995
1/34	Developer Summits	1994
1/35	Commons Development Potential	1994
1/36	Downtown Seattle Association	1994
2/1	Commons EIS Appeal	1995
2/2	Commons EIS Appeal Documents	1995
2/3	Commons EIS Fund	1994-1995
2/4	Commons EIS Staff Assistance with FEIS	1995
2/5	Financing Plan, Mayor's Recommendation	1995
2/6	Commons Funding and Management Agreement	1995
2/7	General Motors Site	1995
2/8	Commons Governance	1993-1994
2/9	Commons Governance	1995
2/9	Commons Governance	1995
2/10	Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce	1993-1994
2/11	Growth Management Act	1994
2/12	Growth Management Hearing Board Appeal	1995
2/13	Harris Report	1993-1994
2/14	Commons, Historical - Cultural	1993-1995
2/15	Commons History	1992
2/16	Commons Housing	1993-1994
2/17	Iglitzin, Lynne: The Seattle Commons: A case Study in the Evolution of an Urban Village	1993
2/18	Commons Interdepartmental Team	1993
2/19	Koll Project	1995
2/20	Lake Union Air Property	1993
2/21	Land Use	1993-1995
2/22	Levy	1995
2/23	LID's	1994-1995
2/24	Maps	undated
2/25	Maritime Heritage Center	1993-1994
2/26	Mayor's Revised Proposal for the Seattle Commons	1996
2/27	Media (Commons)	1993-1994
2/28	Mercer Corridor - Funding	1994-1995
2/29	Mercer Corridor - NEPA	1993-1994
2/30	Mercer Street - Construction Impacts	1994
2/31	Mercer Street - Myers Tunnel Proposal	1993-1994
2/32	Municipal League Park Proposal	1993
2/33	Naval Reserve / Fort Lawton	1993-1995
2/34	Newsletter - Commons News	1992-1994
2/35	Commons Outreach	1993-1994
2/36	Parks and Open Space	1993-1995
2/37	PEMCO	1994
2/38	Permitting Process and Commons	1994
2/39	Commons Plan (Draft)	1992
3/1	Commons Plan Draft 2	1993-1994
3/2	Commons Plan - Public Comments	1994-1995
3/3	Commons Plan - Public Comments	1995
3/4	Commons / South Lake Union Plan - Public Comments	1995
3/5	Commons - Planning Commission	1993-1995
3/6	Population and Employment	1994-1995
3/7	Programmatic EIS	1993
3/8	Commons Property Inventories, Assessment	1993-1994
3/9	Commons Property Notes	1994
3/10	Commons Property Ownership	undated
3/11	Commons Prototypes	1994
3/12	Public Safety	1993-1994
3/13	Commons Questions and Answers, Descriptions	1992-1995
3/14	Residential Preference Study	1993
3/15	Seattle Center	1993-1994
3/16	Seattle Public Library - South Lake Union Satellite	1994
3/17	Seattle Times Rezoning	1994-1996
3/18	SEPA Issues	1993
3/19	Shoreline / Waterfront Issues	1989-1995
3/20	South Lake Union Business Association	1993-1995
3/21	South Lake Union Businesses	1993-1994
3/22	South Lake Union Employers	1994
3/23	South Lake Union Park	1989-1994
3/24	Steering Committee	1993-1994
3/25	Stream Research	1994
3/26	Stream Research	1994
3/27	Surveys / Questionnaires	1993
3/28	Tax Increment Financing	1992-1995
4/1	Transportation Issues and Modeling	1993-1995
4/2	Washington Natural Gas	1982-1994
4/3	Water Department Issues	1994-1995
4/4	West Seattle Defense Fund Case	1995
4/5	Zoning (Commons)	1995
4/6	Zoning (Commons)	1993-1994
6/1	Appeal and Mode Split / Forecasting	1994-1995
6/2	Council Resolution	1992
6/3	EIS Scoping Document, RFP	1993-1994
6/4	Fisher Property Pedestrial Overpass	-
6/5	Funding	1995
6/6	Interdepartmental Team Retreat	1994
6/7	Land Ownership	1995
6/8	Commons / South Lake Union - Major Investment Study	1993-1994
6/9	Mercer Street Combined Sewer Outflow	1995-1998
6/10	Miscellaneous	1993
6/11	National Environmental Policy Act	1992-1994
6/12	Open Space	1992-1994
6/13	Parking	1995
6/14	South Lake Union Planning (Historical)	1984-1996
6/15	Traffic Forecasts	1992-1995
6/16	Transportation Committee of City Council, Adoption Process	1995
6/17	Transportation Phasing	1995
7/1	Transportation-Related Comments and Briefings	1992-1994

South Lake Union Plans, 1982-1995Return to Top

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Box/Folder
4/7	Lake Union Public Access (UW Urban Design)	1985
4/8	Parks Dept. Comprehensive Plan	1991-1993
4/9	South Lake Union Area Planning - Background Documents	1993-1994
4/10	South Lake Union Area Planning - Background Documents	1987-1993
4/11	South Lake Union Comprehensive Plan	1993-1995
4/12	South Lake Union Plan	1995
4/13	South Lake Union Plan	1995
4/14	South Lake Union Plan	1995
4/15	South Lake Union Plan Paste-up (With Photographs)	undated
4/16	South Lake Union Plan EIS Documents	1994
4/17	South Lake Union Plan EIS Documents	1994
4/18	South Lake Union Area Planning - Environmental Review Documents	1992-1994
4/19	South Lake Union Planning History	1986-1993
4/20	South Lake Union Planning Project	1982-1994
4/21	South Lake Union Subarea Plan - Draft EIS Hearing Transcript	1995

Office of Management and Budget / Commons Financing files, 1992-2001Return to Top

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Box/Folder
5/1	Financing / Fiscal	1993-1996
5/2	Fiscal Impact Analysis	1993-1995
5/3	Fiscal Impact Study, Market Assessment	1994
5/4	Fiscal Impact Study	1993-1994
5/5	Early File	1992
5/6	Commons General	1993
5/7	Commons Interdepartmental Team	1993
5/8	Cost Estimates	1994
5/9	Contractor Info Request - Fiscal Impact	1993
5/10	Consultant Info Request - Cost	1994
5/11	Consultant Info Request - Cost	1994
5/12	South Lake Union Contract	1993-1994
5/13	Financing	1993-1994
5/14	Financing Plan	1994
5/15	Fiscal Work	1993-1994
5/16	Commons Study Tickler	1994-1995
5/17	Commons Study RFP	1994
5/18	South Lake Union Economic Development	1992-1995
5/19	Financing - Purchase and Sale Agreement, Vulcan	2001

South Lake Union Transportation, 1963-1989Return to Top

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Box/Folder
7/2	South Lake Union / Mercer Corridor - Bicycles	1987
7/3	Traffic: Intersection Analyses, Broad St. Throughway	1988
7/4	Transportation Conceptual Programs, Budget Plan, LUTD and SED Agreement	1986
7/5	Transportation Study, Planning Commission Comments	1987
7/6	Transportation, Surface Concept (Broad St. Throughway) Public Review	1988-1989
7/7	Aerial Photographs - South Lake Union, Seattle Center	1963

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

City planning--Washington (State)--Seattle
Parks--Washington (State)--Seattle
Seattle Commons (Seattle, Wash.)
South Lake Union (Seattle, Wash.)
Transportation Planning

Corporate Names

Seattle (Wash.). Planning Dept.
Seattle (Wash.). Office of Management and Budget
Seattle (Wash.). Office of Management and Planning

Geographical Names

Seattle (Wash.)

Form or Genre Terms

Maps
Photographs

Archives West Finding Aid

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