Developer releases first look at plans for Queen Anne Children’s Home site

The developer behind a controversial plan to build approximately 61 townhouses on 2.5 acres in Queen Anne has released a first look at the plan ahead of an initial design-review meeting.

Camwest, a part of national home builder Toll Brothers, would put the homes on the block bounded by Ninth and 10th Avenues West, West McGraw Street to the north and mostly single-family houses to the south. The site has been home to the Seattle Children's Home since the orphanage's founding in 1905. Most of the current buildings date to the 1960s.

The site is zoned for townhouses, as is abutting land to the south and across the street to the west and east. But the area to the north is zoned for single-family houses on 5,000-square-foot lots.

Opponents of the plan have organized, creating the group "Future Queen Anne." That group's next meeting is scheduled for 7 p.m. Wednesday inQueen Anne Lutheran Church,2400 Eighth Ave W.

Click through the gallery above to see details on the site and several options for the development that Camwest andNicholson Kovalchick Architects prepared.The first design-review meeting is scheduled for 8 p.m. on Dec. 18 in Room One of Queen Anne Community Center, 1901 First Ave. W.

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Developer releases first look at plans for Queen Anne Children's Home site