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Neighborhood-Specific Design Guidelines
The Neighborhood-Specific Design Guidelines serve as supplements to the Design Review Guidelines for Multifamily and Commercial Buildings and apply only to projects that are proposed in the neighborhoods that have written and adopted them.

Printed copies of these documents may be purchased from DPD's Public Resource Center, located on the 20th floor of Seattle Municipal Tower at 700 Fifth Ave., (206) 684-8467.

Northwest

• Ballard - "Ballard Municipal Center Masterplan Area Design Guidelines," effective Jan. 15, 2001. (Download 1.6MB pdf)
• Greenwood/Phinney - "Greenwood/Phinney Neighborhood Design Guidelines," effective April 7, 2006. (Download 2MB pdf)
• Northgate - "Northgate Urban Center and Overlay District Design Guidelines," effective Nov. 13, 2003. (Download 2.7MB pdf)

Northeast

• Green Lake - "Green Lake Neighborhood Design Guidelines," effective Aug. 26, 2001. (Download 2MB pdf)
• Lake City - "North District/Lake City Neighborhoods Design Guidelines," effective March 10, 2007. (Download 2.5MB pdf)
• Northgate - "Northgate Urban Center and Overlay District Design Guidelines," effective Nov. 13, 2003. (Download 2.7MB pdf)
• Roosevelt - "Roosevelt Urban Village Design Guidelines," effective Oct. 15, 2000. (Download 1.4MB pdf)
• University - "University Community Design Guidelines," effective Oct. 15, 2000. (Download 1.3MB pdf)
• Wallingford - "Wallingford Neighborhood Design Guidelines," effective May 6, 2005. (Download 3.4MB pdf)
  

Queen Anne/Magnolia

• South Lake Union - "South Lake Union Design Guidelines," updated May 25, 2005. (Download 2.5MB pdf)

Southeast

• North Beacon Hill- "North Beacon Hill Neighborhood Design Guidelines," effective Aug. 19, 2006. (Download 2.8MB pdf)
• Othello - "Othello Neighborhood Design Guidelines," effective April 7, 2006. (Download 3.4KB pdf)

Southwest

• Admiral - "Admiral Residential Urban Village Design Guidelines," effective May 29, 2002. (Download 988KB pdf)
• Morgan Junction - NEW "Morgan Junction Neighborhood Design Guidelines," Effective Sept. 2, 2007. (Download 4MB pdf)
• West Seattle - "West Seattle Junction Urban Village Design Guidelines," effective Aug. 26, 2001. (Download 1.4MB pdf)

Downtown

• Belltown - "Belltown Urban Center Village Design Guidelines," effective Aug. 26, 2004. (Download 5.8MB pdf)

Capitol Hill/First Hill/Central District

• Capitol Hill - "Capitol Hill Neighborhood Design Guidelines," effective Sept. 21, 2005. (Download 3.6MBpdf)
• Pike/Pine - "Pike/Pine Urban Center Village Design Guidelines," effective Oct. 15, 2000. (Download 1.3MB pdf)
• South Lake Union - "South Lake Union Design Guidelines," updated May 25, 2005. (Download 2.5MB pdf)