Leschi

Why Leschi needs a neighborhood-level view

A Leschi search can begin with a failing wall, foundation movement, drainage, or a mapped slope concern before the appropriate construction method is known. This neighborhood hub keeps those questions together, then routes readers into a specific work type only when the public evidence supports it.

The company comparison is based on four selected past permits. The City open-data rows leave their contractor-name field blank, but the individual Seattle Services Portal records display license numbers matching the four listed companies; check the linked records and current L&I registration before hiring. A permit connection is not proof of workmanship, present availability, or who performed every trade.

Official neighborhood screening

Leschi's mapped slope context

The matched neighborhood boundary has 17.27% steep-slope overlap and 39.86% potential-slide-area overlap. It also contains 85 historical known-slide event points. Those figures make slope, groundwater, surface-water control, and temporary excavation reasonable screening topics, but they do not determine a parcel's status or present stability.

Where a proposed repair uses soil nails, piles, anchors, or other deep elements, the scope should identify subsurface investigation, design ownership, testing, utilities, neighboring-property rights, construction observation, and the assumptions used for access and equipment.

The matched neighborhood boundary contains 85 historical known-slide event points across source years 1897, 1909, 1920, 1925, 1927, 1928, 1933, 1934, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1942, 1948, 1949, 1951, 1953, 1955, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1970, 1980, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1990, 1991, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2018. Points may be incomplete or generalized and do not establish a current condition at a nearby property.

Neighborhood × work type

Open the relevant work in Leschi

A dedicated local page appears only where the selected records clear the publication threshold. Other cards lead to the broader work-type page and state that the local evidence is limited.

Compare companies represented in Leschi permits

Four companies with license numbers displayed in the detailed Portal records appear below. Read the status and the local context before opening a profile: a withdrawn or expired permit is not completed work, and a completed removal or alteration is not evidence of a completed new wall.

Questions that matter on a Leschi slope or wall site

• What site observations and subsurface information explain the movement or proposed support concept?
• How are surface runoff, groundwater, wall drainage, and the permanent outlet coordinated?
• Could excavation, piles, nails, or anchors affect utilities, neighboring land, access rights, or occupied structures?
• Who owns engineering, field changes, testing, special inspection, restoration, and closeout records?
• Is the proposed job new construction, alteration, repair, or removal—and do the contractor's comparable records actually match that scope?

Articles supporting the Leschi topic

These guides answer narrower planning questions and link back into the relevant service and neighborhood evidence.