Single family homes, additions, exterior renovations and new buildings are *exempt* from the Design Review process. They take up 70% of the land eligible for development in our city. Every area in green is exempt

This project did not have to comply with it's neighborhood guidelines for setbacks, building orientation, streetscape, or materials. It's almost 4,000 square feet.

Look at all these proposals that went in, that would be subject to design review if they had more than ONE housing unit. (h/t @DBeekman). Not ONE of these projects was checked against the public or the design review board. https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/new-ban-on-mcmansions-would-dramatically-change-seattles-house-building-rules/

The design review was born out of neighborhood planning. A process in the mid 90s that distributed our urban village land unequally into our black and brown neighborhoods bound by long standing impacts of redlining. Why? Because wealthy white homeowners dictated the boundaries

In the end, 30 square miles of single family zoned land are not eligible for this useless process of volunteers nitpicking an architect's metaphorical concept or material palette. We reserved the process for just 13 square miles so wealthy white homeowners could block development