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Land Use Committee opens discussion on codifying Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design
Summary
Committee chair Mark Solomon presented an introductory overview of Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) and said the committee will continue a project‑specific, code‑focused discussion at a future meeting.
Chair Mark Solomon, who said he spent roughly 35 years as a crime‑prevention coordinator with the Seattle Police Department, gave a broad overview of Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) at the Land Use Committee meeting and asked the committee to return for a more detailed, code‑oriented discussion at a subsequent session.
Why it matters: CPTED is a multidisciplinary set of design principles that seek to reduce opportunities for crime by altering physical and social features of the built environment; council members signaled interest in exploring whether and how…
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