Just yesterday, I went to the Space Needle with some friends from out of town. It was terrifying. I couldn't see the Space Needle from inside the gift shop. Of course I blacked out, and when I came to, I would have been completely disoriented except that I was outside and laying on the ground, looking up at the Space Needle.
Oh please, Ms. Martinez. If the late, great Bagley Wright (no relation whatever to the Wrights who currently own the Needle) could see the bullshit PR campaign being used to fool the simple minded into writing nonsense like this,THAT's what would bother him.
I can't see the Space Needle from my apartment! I mean, I live on Queen Anne and even though it's a west facing window, I DEMAND my view of the Space Needle. Seeing it as I walk down the hill to catch a bus isn't enough.
Dammit, why can't I get that Needle in my veins???
option #a: paint space-needleses on all new buildings. option #2: google-glass™ glasses which superimpose space-needle images on all facets o' life.
(furthermore) i want, nay, demand(!), a cartoon (or model made of starbucks trash) which precisely indicate current "rays of view" overlaid with anticipated blockage of same. or else, as a concerned citizen i'll forthwith stopped being concerned about this issue; sine-die/[burp]
If all you people would just shut the fuck up and move away, we could put this glorious city back the way it was, when it was all surface parking lots as far as the eye can see, and you could see the Space Needle even if your head was up in your ass.
Where do the needs and desires of the The Space Needle view movement align or diverge from the other powerful grassroots cause in the area, the "please block my view of the EMP" movement?
There's a Renton U-Haul with a Space Needle solution for all you whiners. It involves plywood and a little bit of good old-fashioned American can-do spirit. Every neighborhood can have their own, for cheap. http://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/2549
@15 has a point. Back when nobody lived here, I could see the Space Needle from N 45th in Wallingford or just south of the Woodland Park Zoo, but then they built all these buildings and all these people from Cali and NY moved here.
Why not build a new, larger Space Needle on top of Queen Anne, about twice the height of the current Space Needle (but starting higher -- so the tip would be about 3 times higher than the current Space Needle.
I can't see the Space Needle from here either! RAGE! Bulldoze Admiral hill in West Seattle and fill in Elliot bay so I can drive directly in a straight line to Seattle Center whilst simultaneously staring directly at the Space Needle!!!!
I'm saving up money to have a permanent image of the Space Needle etched into my eyeballs. I think the city should be required to pay for at least half of the surgery.
Ah Seattle, home of "don't bother my view, and I won't bother you" rugged frontier individualism.
In Soviet Seattle, property owns you!
You have to just basically not understand anything about law to think that someone has got to be corrupt to "allow" things like people to buy land and then build things on it.
You might not like it, but it doesn't point to a global fucking conspiracy. It points to the principle of private property. Which we still happen to have. Not that I'm defending it. But it is the simple reality: you give someone with land some money, they let you do stuff with that land. It's not corruption to allow people to buy land and build things on it. It's capitalism. Change it if you don't like it. Don't point fingers from your deskchairs.
I was walking with friends recently through Seattle. It was appalling how many trees were blocking my view of the Space Needle. Clear cutting our trees is the best way to preserve our views of the Needle.
We should also immediately pass an ordinance banning future planting of trees, because once they grow up we will never get our views back.
What if we go ahead and build around the Space Needle, but all construction should be required to be transparent. It could also solve the affordable housing thing, because how much could you really charge for a see-through apartment?
LOVE that the ad I'm currently seeing at the top of the page is asking me to write the Seattle City Council about protecting views of the Space Needle.
You know, we cannot see the Space Needle at all in Tacoma. I think I need to write the Seattle City Council about this grave injustice.
The panic about space needle views is silly, but view easements are generally a good thing in resudential neighborhoods. That way bigger houses don't spring up one after the other like a film of falling dominoes run backward. View easements make housing fit more organically with the land and recognize that beautiful views are an asset worth protecting.
I really don't understand the acidic commentary on this topic. Do we not like views of iconic landmarks anymore? I am pro-density and pro-view. There are reasonable compromises.
Oh my god. . . I - I cant see the space needle! Someone help me! I'm lost! I'm confused! Please god, let this torment END! Someone please call the cops! Call the paramedics!!! Send help at ONCE!!!
@41, the problem is many of the voices crying over losing their view of the Space Needle are the same type who wanted to by high priced condos or rent expensive apartments on Capitol Hill to live right next to the "vibrant nightlife" and THEN turn around to bitch about that "vibrant nightlife" when it doesn't fit in with their sleep schedule.
Now people are crying that they want to live in their high priced homes near Lake Union with a "guaranteed" view of the Space Needle (I mean that's what the realtor promised right?) and are crying that development could change that.
If you want to live in a "world class city" and a city that is moving forward you have to let go of the past. And hell, we aren't getting rid of the damn thing. People just will have to (GOD FUCKING HELP US ALL) go outside (YIKES!!) and interact with other people (SUPER SCARY!) to watch the fireworks go off on the Space Needle.
Wasn't the Space Needle supposed to be temporary?
But I'm also glad that the Funhouse got shut down so that I don't have to hear it anymore.
Dammit, why can't I get that Needle in my veins???
[too soon?]
Just go watch the Fremont Sunday Market do the Harlem Shake on YouTube.
There, feel better?
Sitting here in Eimsbüttel, Hamburg, Germany, and cannot see the goddamned Space Needle.
Fuck you, Paul Allen.
(furthermore) i want, nay, demand(!), a cartoon (or model made of starbucks trash) which precisely indicate current "rays of view" overlaid with anticipated blockage of same. or else, as a concerned citizen i'll forthwith stopped being concerned about this issue; sine-die/[burp]
(ignoring that I moved here from BC)
Visible from basically everywhere.
In Soviet Seattle, property owns you!
You have to just basically not understand anything about law to think that someone has got to be corrupt to "allow" things like people to buy land and then build things on it.
You might not like it, but it doesn't point to a global fucking conspiracy. It points to the principle of private property. Which we still happen to have. Not that I'm defending it. But it is the simple reality: you give someone with land some money, they let you do stuff with that land. It's not corruption to allow people to buy land and build things on it. It's capitalism. Change it if you don't like it. Don't point fingers from your deskchairs.
We should also immediately pass an ordinance banning future planting of trees, because once they grow up we will never get our views back.
what, exactly, is the space needle trying to fight here? the height limit proposals for area S of Denny & W of westlake?
You know, we cannot see the Space Needle at all in Tacoma. I think I need to write the Seattle City Council about this grave injustice.
https://twitter.com/tacomamama/status/31…
Now people are crying that they want to live in their high priced homes near Lake Union with a "guaranteed" view of the Space Needle (I mean that's what the realtor promised right?) and are crying that development could change that.
If you want to live in a "world class city" and a city that is moving forward you have to let go of the past. And hell, we aren't getting rid of the damn thing. People just will have to (GOD FUCKING HELP US ALL) go outside (YIKES!!) and interact with other people (SUPER SCARY!) to watch the fireworks go off on the Space Needle.