Conservation overlay zoning and neighborhood character: Pike/Pine, Seattle

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With the growing popularity of central city neighborhoods in cities across the United States, once neglected low-income areas are facing intense pressures for redevelopment that threaten to disrupt historic fabric and neighborhood character. The Pike/Pine section of Capitol Hill, east of downtown Seattle, is one such neighborhood. Although the city recognized Pike/Pine as its first conservation overlay district in 2009 in order to preserve its historic environment and neighborhood character, the area's overall sense of place is rapidly transforming from fine-grained authentic, grungy, and alternative to upscale, trendy, and manufactured. This work reviews the effectiveness of the Pike/Pine Conservation Overlay District (PPCOD) ordinance through a review of redevelopment projects in maintaining neighborhood character, or in ameliorating the negative impacts of gentrification. Ultimately this work indicates a need for better use of planning incentives to achieve desired historic preservation outcomes within the framework of conservation overlay zoning.

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