WaSMAR6320_01 Guide to the Seattle Commons Project Records 1963-2001 Seattle Commons Project Records Finding aid prepared by Janet Ness Funding for processing this record series was provided through a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. Seattle Municipal Archives © 2011
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6320-01 Seattle (Wash.). Office of Management and Planning Seattle Commons Project Records 1963-2001 1993-1995 5.6 cubic feet 7 boxes Planning records for the Seattle Commons. Collection materials are in English Historical Note

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.

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.

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

Records are open to the public.

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

This collection is indexed under the following headings in the online catalog. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or places should search the catalog using these headings.

Seattle (Wash.). Planning Dept. Seattle (Wash.). Office of Management and Planning Seattle (Wash.). Office of Management and Budget Seattle (Wash.) Seattle Commons (Seattle, Wash.) Parks--Washington (State)--Seattle City planning--Washington (State)--Seattle South Lake Union (Seattle, Wash.) Transportation Planning Seattle City Planning Photographs Maps

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

Subject files 1981-1997 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 1982-1995 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 1992-2001 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 1963-1989 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