Edith Macefield, the woman who caused quite a stir by refusing to sell her Ballard home to developers, forcing them to build around her, has died, apparently of natural causes. [myballard].

Regardless of where you come down on the whole development issue–and I still maintain that the character of development in Seattle is constantly leaning away from the sort of density that we claim to want–the bottom line is that Macefield was a lady with a rich an interesting life, and stories that have probably still never been told. Richard Andrews of Ballard Bullshit has been working on a documentary about her for the last three years, hopefully scheduled for completion in the fall.

She has no known family, so what happens next to her land and house should be interesting.