From Katie Pencke:
King County has awarded the Othello Park Alliance (OPA) a $10,000 grant to restore habitat on the hillside by the slide in Othello Park.
We will be working on this project over the next 18 months, in partnership with the UW School of Landscape Architecture, King County Superior Court Vocation, Education, Service, Training (VEST) program, and the Parks Department.
Our first phase is to remove the roots of the invasive plants which were grazed to the ground by the goats from Rent-A-Ruminant this past summer. We would love your help! Come meet your neighbors and be a part of this historic work.
Tools and gloves will be provided. Please bring water to drink, and come dressed for the weather. Work parties will be held rain or shine.
RSVP to Katie Pencke.
Othello Park Hillside Work Parties:
- Sat., Oct. 17, 10 – 1 pm
- Sat., Oct. 24, 10 – 1 pm
- Sat., Nov. 7, 10 – 1 pm
Top: Othello Park is located at 4351 South Othello Street, just east of Martin Luther King Jr Way. Photo/do communications, inc. Bottom: Earlier this summer, a herd of goats camped out in Othello Park for a weekend to chew through the weeds and blackberry bushes on the west side of the park. Photo/Sara Comas
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I hope that whatever is to be planted meets CPTED (Crime prevention through environmental design) There should be no plant materials that
grow greater than 18″. I hope they will keep CPTED at the forefront of what they do. Take a look at what has happened to Lake Washington Blvd. with this “new” plan. It has taken away access to the shoreline with
blackberry bushes and whatever is considered “native” plants. In a park
that has a history of problems we need to use common sence, for the benefit of all.
MQ
I’m not sure what native plantings along the lake have to do with crime prevention, but I understand the concern for the park.
There’s a balance though, even within CPTED guidelines, between making a park unattractive to criminals and making it attractive to non-criminals.
It would be sad to do all that work for a park that nobody wanted to go to.
Way to go Katie and all at Othello… !
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