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nod to hawks. A4 The view from a condo on the 20th floor of Seattle’s Cosmopolitan building shows the construction of an adjacent office tower that will be 18 feet away and one story higher.

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Joel Connelly: A top aide to
CLOSE QUARTERS BY AUBREY COHEN
P-I reporter
INSIDE: HOW BUYERS CAN
liberal presidential candidates 1918 EIGHTH PROTECT THEMSELVES
delivers a scathing critique of how (under construction) Benjamin Shanfelder signed up to buy a con- ARMED WITH INFORMATION: How prospective
left-leaning Seattle is being run. B1 dominium on the west side of downtown Seattle’s condo buyers can find out what might block a view,
Cosmopolitan building in 2005 because it was choke off light or take away privacy. A6
Legacy honored: The legacy of THE COSMOPOLITAN one of the first new downtown high-rises and was
Renton’s Johnathan Sim – helping convenient to amenities like the downtown bus
THE DISTANCE BETWEEN THEM: tunnel and South Lake Union streetcar. planned height to 34 stories – one story higher
others – will be remembered at the
New Year’s Day Rose Parade. B2 18 feet But before choosing a condo on the west side than Cosmopolitan.
or less than the length of a 2008 of Cosmopolitan’s 21st floor, he looked into plans “I would lose most of my remaining view and
for the adjacent lot and found the city had ap- pretty much all of my sunlight and privacy,” he
INDEX Chevrolet Suburban
proved a 13-story office building there. said.
“I bought with that assumption,” he said last Actually, he won’t: He sold his condo last
TODAY’S WEATHER week. month and moved to Queen Anne.
Pineapple Express storming Shanfelder knew other nearby projects would This tale of two towers raises questions about
through. High 58. Low 50. B6 block some of his view. But it was a nasty surprise the city’s rules for tower spacing, the process for
Comics C4,5 when developers of the neighboring building,
18 feet, 6 inches which would be 18 feet away, revised their SEE CONDO, A6
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Double slaying shows cracks in law enforcement
Notification procedures between police
authorities in two states found lacking
BY CLAUDIA ROWE
P-I reporter
It’s just a spot on the map, a loose
Daniel Thomas collection of homes spread over sev-
Tavares Jr. eral rural miles east of Tacoma.
pleaded not There’s no mayor, not even a town
guilty to the council. People keep largely to them-
Mauck slayings. selves, making Graham, population
8,000, exactly the kind of place
where someone might go to disap-
pear.
Which is what Daniel Tavares
did, at least for the few months be-
fore Nov. 17, when he was arrested
and accused of a double murder that
left a newlywed couple dead in their
home.
Now, however, Tavares’ case has
sounded like a gong, reverberating
through law enforcement circles and
into the presidential campaign.
Republican candidate Mitt Rom-
ney, the former governor of Massa-
chusetts known as a law-and-order
conservative, jumped into the fray by
announcing that he had appointed
the judge who freed Tavares from a
Massachusetts prison and that he
was now asking her to resign for that
“inexplicable lack of good judg-
ment.”
Another GOP front-runner, Rudy
Giuliani, leaped. Judge Kathe Tutt-
man had indeed erred, the candidate
said, but it was Romney who should
answer for the mistake instead of
“throwing her under the bus.”
In Boston, where politics is blood
sport, local media enthusiastically
joined the brawl over a pair of slay-
ings 3,000 miles away.
Romney “didn’t want a Willie
Horton on his watch. Instead, he gets
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NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY
A rendering depicts the
fossilized hadrosaur
nicknamed Dakota being
analyzed in a CT scanner
operated by The Boeing Co.
Scientists
learning
a lot from
dinosaur
‘mummy’
It was found
with fossilized
skin and muscles
BY RANDOLPH E. SCHMID
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON – One of
the most complete dinosaur
“mummies” ever found is re-
vealing secrets locked away
for millions of years, bringing
researchers as close as they
will ever get to touching a live
dino.
The fossilized duckbilled
hadrosaur is so well-pre-
served that scientists have
been able to calculate its mus-
cle mass and learn that it was
more muscular than thought,
probably giving it the ability
to outrun predators such as T.
rex.
Although they call it a
mummy, the dinosaur is not
really preserved the way King
Tut was. The dinosaur body
has been fossilized into stone.
Unlike the collections of
bones found in museums, this
hadrosaur came complete
with skin, ligaments, tendons
and possibly some internal or-
gans, researchers said.
The study is not complete,
but scientists have concluded
that hadrosaurs were bigger –
31⁄2 tons and up to 40 feet long
– and stronger than had been
known, were quick and flexi-
ble and had skin with scales
that may have been striped.
“Oh, the skin is wonder-
ful,” paleontologist Phillip
Manning of Manchester Uni-
versity in England rhapso-
dized, admitting to a “glazed
look in my eye.”
“It’s unbelievable when
you look at it for the first
time,” he said in a telephone
interview. “There is depth and
structure to the skin. The level
of detail expressed in the skin
is just breathtaking.”
Manning said there is a
pattern of banding to the
scales on the skin. Because it
has been fossilized, research-
ers do not know the skin color.
Looking at it in monochrome
shows a striped pattern.
The fossil, nicknamed
“Dakota,” is being analyzed in
the world’s largest CT scan-
ner, operated by The Boeing
Co. The machine usually is
used for space shuttle engines
and other large objects. Re-
searchers hope the technol-
ogy will help them learn more
about the fossilized insides of
the creature.
“It’s a definite case of
watch this space,” Manning
said. “We are trying to be very
conservative, very careful.”
But they have learned
enough so far to produce two
books and a television pro-
gram. The TV special, “Dino
Autopsy,” will air on the Na-
tional Geographic Channel on
Sunday. The National Geo-
graphic Society partly funded
the research.
A children’s book, “Dino-
Mummy: The Life, Death, and
Discovery of Dakota, a Dino-
saur From Hell Creek,” goes
on sale Tuesday, and an adult
book, “Grave Secrets of Dino-
saurs: Soft Tissues and Hard
Science,” will be available in
January.
Soft parts of dead animals
normally decompose rapidly
after death. Because of chem-
ical conditions where this ani-
mal died, fossilization – re-
placement of tissues by miner-
als – took place faster than the
decomposition, leaving min-
eralized portions of the tissue.
Because ligaments and
tendons were preserved, as
well as other parts of Dakota,
researchers could calculate its
muscle mass, showing it was
stronger and potentially fast-
er than had been known.
They estimated the hadro-
saur’s top speed at about 28
mph, 10 mph faster than the
giant T. Rex is thought to have
been able to run.
Dakota was discovered in
1999 by Tyler Lyson, then a
teenager who liked hunting
for fossils on his family ranch.
Lyson, who is working on his
doctoral degree in paleontol-
ogy at Yale University, found-
ed the Marmarth Research
Foundation, an organization
dedicated to the excavation,
preservation and study of di-
nosaurs.
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CONDO: Owners have little
recourse to fight new towers
FROM A1
notifying neighbors and review-
ing potential effects, and the ob-
ligations of a developer to tell
buyers about plans for adjacent
projects.
Developer Schnitzer West
applied to build the 34-story
tower in April 2006, just after the
city raised downtown height lim-
its. On Schnitzer’s site, limits
went from 300 feet for a com-
mercial building and 360 feet for
a residential building to 500 feet
for either.
Adjacent property owners,
including Cosmopolitan devel-
oper Continental Properties,
were notified of the new applica-
tion, as per city requirements.
But those who had signed agree-
ments to buy in Cosmopolitan
were not.
Clifford Tatum, chairman of
the Cosmopolitan Community
Committee, found out about the
new proposal in the summer of
2006 by checking the city’s Web
site while in Europe.
He tried to get word out to
other buyers, but city officials
said they didn’t have and could
not get contact information for
people who had purchase agree-
ments in Cosmopolitan, but did
not yet own there. Continental
Properties cited a policy not to
disclose buyers’ names.
“We have been prevented,
through lack of information and
invitation, from having our
voices heard in the design pro-
cess,” Tatum wrote in a letter to
Mayor Greg Nickels in Decem-
ber.
Michael Harris, who bought
a condo on the west side of the
17th floor of Cosmopolitan,
found out about six months ago,
thanks to Tatum and a search of
condo blogs.
“I could almost touch the
building,” said Harris, who was
so upset about the Cosmopolitan
situation that he rented out his
condo there and bought a new
one for himself in Capitol Hill.
Backing out of the contract at
that point would have meant
surrendering 5 percent of the
purchase price buyers had to put
down as part of their Cosmopol-
itan contracts, Tatum said. He
said the contract absolved the
developer from any legal respon-
sibility for telling buyers about
the taller tower.
Cheryl Engstrom, who han-
dles public relations for Conti-
nental Properties, said the devel-
oper saw it as an issue between
buyers and the city, and did not
want to comment.
“(Continental) didn’t feel
they had anything to add to the
story,” she said.
It’s really up to buyers to look
into what’s proposed, what
could be built under current zon-
ing and what rule changes might
be in the works, said Melody
McCutcheon, a Seattle lawyer
and chairwoman of the Seattle
Chamber of Commerce’s Land
Use and Development Commit-
tee.
“In an urban setting, no
views are guaranteed, so if a real
estate agent says, ‘You’ll have this
view forever,’ be skeptical,” she
said. “You have to do an investi-
gation of that.”
McCutcheon does such due
diligence for clients considering
downtown condo purchases,
but added that what’s allowed
could change in unexpected
ways.
“You can’t ever say to some-
body, ‘Never in the next hundred
years will the city raise the height
limits,’ ” she said.
Of course, the increased odds
of living above other buildings
are one reason condos on upper
floors cost more than those be-
CONDO DUE
DILIGENCE
Interested in buying a condo?
Want to know what might
block your view, choke off your
light or take away your privacy?
Here are some suggestions.
◗ Ask the developers what they
know about nearby proposals
and what zoning would allow,
and whether they have bought
air rights for surrounding lots to
protect views and privacy.
◗ Look up the zoning of
surrounding sites and
understand what that zoning
allows.
◗ Check surrounding addresses
for project applications already
filed, sign up for the notification
lists for those projects so you
get notice of any changes and
check back regularly to look for
new applications on other sites.
◗ Ask city planners about
possible upcoming changes to
what zoning would allow
nearby.
◗ Comment in writing and at
design-review hearings about
proposed projects.
◗ Hire a land-use lawyer to do
all this for you.
Find information for Seattle by
going to seattle.gov/dpd and
clicking on “Research” for
zoning maps, and “Notices”
and “Permits” for information
on proposals, or go to the
Seattle Department of Planning
and Development Public
Resource Center, on the 20th
floor of the Seattle Municipal
Tower, 700 Fifth Ave. The center
is open from 7:30 a.m. to 5:30
p.m. Monday, Wednesday and
Friday, and from 10:30 a.m. to
5:30 p.m. Tuesday and
Thursday, and can be reached
at 206-684-8467.
And remember, it may not be
possible to promise nobody
ever will be able to build in
front of your condo.
low. The assessor’s value of a
738-square-foot Cosmopolitan
condo, for instance, rises from
$300,000 on the 10th floor to
$400,000 on the 24th to
$450,000 on the 31st.
In raising downtown height
limits in 2006, the City Council
required 60, 80 or even 200 feet
of separation between towers in
many areas. The original pro-
posal would have set a separa-
tion requirement of 80 feet
throughout downtown, but the
council removed that require-
ment in the densest commercial
zones.
Developers strongly op-
posed tower spacing and the fi-
nal rules were a compromise,
said City Councilman Peter
Steinbrueck, chairman of the
council’s Urban Development
and Planning Committee. He
called the Cosmopolitan situa-
tion “shocking.”
“That just seems unreason-
able to me and highly inconsis-
tent with our plan,” Steinbrueck
said. “That’s precisely the kind of
problem we were trying to
avoid.”
He also put some blame on
developers, saying, “You would
hope that the neighboring devel-
opers would respect each other
better and not just do everything
in a way that’s self-serving.”
Even if the buyers were noti-
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Many planned downtown towers could interfere with the views and even light
of other existing and planned buildings. Downtown's densest zones require no
separation between towers. Other areas mandate separation of 60 to 200 feet
for the upper parts of taller towers, although the requirement does not apply
to towers on different blocks from each other.
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These include using “reeded”
glass, which makes windows less Completed since 2004 18 2105 5th Ave., 24 floors
transparent; reducing occupied 1 Sheraton Hotel, N/A 19 2000 3rd Ave., 43 floors
office spaces across from condos; 2 2nd and Lenora, 24 floors 20 1800 Terry Ave., 30 floors
and setting back corners of the
3 1811 Eastlake Ave., 4 floors 21 1915 2nd Ave., 24 floors
building to allow more light to
reach the condo tower, Graubard 4 819 Virginia Ave., 33 floors 22 2301 6th Ave., 40 floors
said, adding that Schnitzer offi- 5 2200 Westlake Ave., 18 floors 23 1823 Minor Ave., 40 floors
cials recently met with Cosmo-
Under construction, 24 1430 2nd Ave., 35 floors
politan owners to discuss the
project. Oct. 2007 25 600 Wall St., 35 floors
Tatum said the city should re- 6 1635 8th Ave., 39 floors 26 800 Stewart, 35 floors
quire notification of those with
7 1918 4th Ave., 32 floors 27 2030 8th Ave., N/A
contracts to buy condos near a
building proposal, consider im- 8 1521 2nd Ave., 37 floors 28 2105 6th Ave., N/A
pacts on private property and 9 809 Olive Way, 38 floors 29 802 Pine St., 39 floors
have a tower-spacing require-
10 2201 9th Ave., 19 floors 30 1903 5th Ave., 45 floors
ment in even the densest zones.
It is possible to buy “air 11 1608 2nd Ave., 23 floors 31 1923 5th Ave., N/A
rights” from neighbors to pre- 12 1823 Terry Ave., 37 floors 32 901 Lenora St., 40 floors
vent potential view blockage. 33 815 Pine St., N/A
The developers of the downtown 13 2001 8th Ave., 27 floors
34 1200 Stewart, 36 floors
Four Seasons Hotel and Private 14 818 Stewart St., 14 floors
Residences, and the Harbor 35 1931 2nd Ave., 40 floors
Steps building, for instance, In permit/design review
36 2015 2nd Ave., 39 floors
jointly bought the rights above 15 2017 7th Ave., 45 floors
the Lusty Lady, on First Avenue, 37 1121 Stewart St., 40 floors
16 Stewart Place, 15 floors
in 2005. 38 114 Pike St., 15 floors
There are several other pro- 17 1918 8th Ave., 34 floors
39 120 Pike St., 22 floors
posed towers that would be quite Source: City of Seattle Planning Department SEATTLE P-I
close to each other, including
two 500-foot towers proposed
on 5th Avenue, just behind the map of towers already planned these complaints in recent
31-story ESCALA building now or under construction shows that times,” Justad said. “This is our
under construction, a 39-story several could cause such con- first time that we’ve started to
residential tower just south of flicts, and that doesn’t account develop a large number of resi-
the Cristala building, at Second for potential development on dential high-rises, so this is new
Avenue and Lenora Street, and other sites. territory.”
the 5th & Madison condo tower The issue has caused a fuss at But there will be more,
going up just beside the old Bank the Cosmopolitan because the McCutcheon said. “It is an
of California Building. building is particularly close to emerging issue that people will
Even in areas with separa- the Schnitzer tower and because have to give more thought to.”
tion requirements, the rules do it is the first high-profile conflict
not apply to towers on different over tall towers in downtown Se- P-I reporter Aubrey Cohen
blocks, such as buildings across attle. can be reached at 206-448-8362
the street from each other. A city “I haven’t heard of us getting or aubreycohen@seattlepi.com.
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