Assessing Seattle's emerging skyline
Founding Principal Blaine Weber, AIA, helped both The Seattle Times and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer explain the positive impacts of downtown Seattle's new zoning rules. The regulations allow residential developers to build taller, more slender towers if they pay into an affordable-housing fund. Critics feared this would kill the building boom. Weber, a leading downtown architect who is working on a dozen high-rises, was quoted in the July 28, 2007 P-I and the Sept. 9, 2007 Times explaining how this has not occurred. "My feeling is that the code ultimately ended up being fair and reasonable, and it's not so onerous that it's precluded anybody from taking advantage of the additional heights," he told the P-I.