Antique Eastlake
The Wintonia
The City Hearing Examiner, Meredith Getches, spent five days listening to neighborhood opposition to the proposed $8.7 million housing project in the Denny Triangle area at 1811 Eastlake. Their fears were of the outcome of 75 alcoholics all residing in the same location. Getches cleared the way for construction of the apartments that will be built by December of 2003 and believes that the behaviors of some people can be drastically altered when placed in a supervised and supportive home. One thing that may have helped her in the decision she made was that the Wintonia, just a short walk from the Denny Triangle area, has housed drunks for eight years who have fit the mold of "good neighbors." When asked about the Pike/Pine panhandlers senior pastor of First Covenant Church on East Pike said he is convinced that none of them live at the Wintonia.
Susan Gorman, director of a private preschool five blocks from the site, worries that increasing the amount of street drunks will make it harder for her toddlers to enjoy playing in the nearby park. She fears that the drunks may lash out or something but Ellen Taussig, head of a secondary private school, had the same concerns eight years ago when the Wintonia was being planned. Her school's 48-student dormitory is right across the street from the shelter and now she feels comfortable with the idea of being so close to it and she even encourages her sixth graders to perform their concerts at the Wintonia. Left over food sometimes gets brought over to the shelter by the students and Taussig says that "we have been living in a more-than-peaceful co-existence." The Benaroya Co. is worried that tenants will not renew their leases in the company's nearby buildings when they find out about the alcoholics that will be in plain view. However, developer Val Thomas believed that the Wintonia would be a good neighbor and decided to build an upscale condominium across the street and said that "it's knee-jerk to assume those types of buildings are going to automatically be problems," while referring to the Wintonia.
An argument against NIMBYism has to do with what Kevin Berube, 4th floor resident, says about drinking. He mentions that people who do not know their drinking limit do, however, know their physical limits when drunk. He says that "people are fearful of losing their housing if they go out when they are too loaded." Some opponents expressed their concern that maybe some of these drunks have lost too many brain cells to be able to make smart choices. A Bellevue psychiatrist, Dr. Kathleen Decker, explains that years of alcoholism can cause brain damage and can impair memory and sometimes cause a person to be paranoid. To quote Decker, "some people who have that syndrome cannot follow any rules in the slightest and also cannot be motivated to do so due to their cognitive difficulties." She goes on to say that "the state of acute intoxication can lead to irritability and agitation. Often you don't have to do anything wrong to set off a person like this."
The Denny Triangle house at 1811 Eastlake Ave., just south of Denny Way is coming up against some heavy opposition. But as with most public housing projects community opposition riddles the initial planning stages. The Wintonia, a subsidized housing building for recovering alcoholics, offers long-term, stable, affordable housing by the Archdiocesan Housing Authority, a division of the Catholic Community Services of Western Washington, who own 14 other low-income permanent-housing properties in the Seattle area. The ground floor of the once abandoned building is now home to two successful businesses and more recently three antique stores that have moved into the neighborhood.
Along with half of the 92 rooms reserved exclusively for alcoholics the rest is available to the "working poor." One of the founder's initial desires for the facility was to offer a place to live in dignity as they reassert control of their lives. The building encasing the residents is a fairly attractive six-story terra cotta with a masonry exterior that has sparked a developmental mindset in a neighborhood that was somewhat underdeveloped. One effective plan in getting people to see the place working is to have part of the building available for neighborhood meetings.
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