Children’s Hospital Proposing Hi-Rise Development.

On Saturday neighbors around Children’s Hospital in Laurelhurst staged a really unique protest. They hired a helicopter to fly at the same height Chilren’s Hospital’s proposed new skyscrapers would reach (240 feet above the ground), and staged a protest below that. Camera crews from three different stations showed up to film the coverage.

The real question here is about rezoning. Children’s wants to expand its development with a rather large complex of buildings, that would be the largest such buildings (with the exception of the Safeco building in the U district) in all of North Seattle.

You can learn more about what the neighbors are doing at their web site.

Here’s the DPD bulletin about this project.

The chart below shows the proposed height of the Children’s building in relation to other skyscrapers in Seattle.