Wednesday, December 3, 2014

Downtown Seattle Height Restrictions

Buying a place in Downtown Seattle can be very exciting and nerve racking at the same time.  You spend all this time looking for the perfect place with the perfect view but how do you know if the view will be protected?  Easy answer, it's not.



Whether you live in Belltown, Capitol Hill, Queen Anne, or Pioneer Square you don't have to go to far without seeing a construction crane building the next and best building.   There are well over 20 cranes in Seattle right now with Amazon building two commercial towers and Insignia building two residential towers both going up around 40 stories.   Just those two projects will be blocking a lot of peoples views.

When purchasing a condo with a view you can find current Downtown Seattle height restriction by using this map.

https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?msa=0&mid=zAQewmOkJ6mU.k9xSo92dWNmg

It won't protect your view and restriction do change but at least you will have a good idea of what the future of Seattle might have in store.