Waterway 18 Master Use Permit

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• Client: Seattle Parks Foundation
• Location: Lake Union, Seattle
• Dates: 2008-2009
• Services: Permitting, shoreline restoration

Description

One of Lake Union’s last remaining street-end parks has a new beach with fish friendly features and access for hand-launched boats, designed and permitted by The Watershed Company. Hazardous debris at the quarter-acre beach had limited public use. The shoreline restoration included bulkhead removal, regrading, and installation of habitat logs, spawning gravel, and native plantings along the 200-foot beach. Project involved LID stormwater improvements in the form of an engineered bio-retention cell planted with native vegetation.

The Watershed Company coordinated all State and Federal permitting for the project site, including permits from the USACE, WDFW, Ecology and DNR. The firm also obtained a street use permit from the Seattle Department of Transportation and a Master Use Permit from the Department of Planning and Development, which included a Shoreline Exemption and ECA Exemption.