Today we’re profiling Rainier Valley neighbor, business owner and community volunteer Christie Coxley – Southeast District Council (SEDC) Neighborhood Matching Fund representative and Neighborhood Planning Advisory Committee (NPAC) member.
Last fall, Christie joined the NPAC – a group of Seattle residents and businesses-people advising Seattle’s Department of Neighborhoods (DON) and Department of Development (DPD) on conducting neighborhood plan updates throughout the city.
“I care about our Southeast neighborhoods,” she said when asked why she wanted to join the NPAC. “The market is pushing development into the Rainier Valley for the first time in a long while. The aesthetics and appropriateness of scale, open space and exterior built environment of new projects will be critical to maintaining the character and livability of our community.”
Christie has lived in the Rainier Valley for 10 years. She owns a full-service landscape building design firm that specializes in residential work and is committed to sustainable design and organic maintenance. She holds a position on the City’s Southwest Design Review Board, providing guidance and comment for development that meets DPD’s thresholds, and has attended various discussion groups and seminars on neighborhood planning.
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SE Seattle Neighborhood Planning Update Meetings:
- Sat., May 16: North Rainier/Mt. Baker at Northwest African American Museum (2300 S. Massachusetts St.) from 9am-2pm
- Sat., May 30: North Beacon Hill/Beacon Hill at El Centro de la Raza (2524 16th Ave. S.) from 9am-2pm
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Thanks for profiling who is making some of the decisions about the community.
At the first meeting of the Neighborhood Plan Update this month, dealing with Othello, there were a lot of people who thought that the City was moving too quickly on the plan update and that there wasn’t sufficient community input. Sally Clark was there and watched and was silent while the City Planning staff stiff-armed the community and went ahead with the pre-programmed process of defining and selecting the plan without community input. Apparently Sally Clark is now linked to the Mayor at the hip to drive a planning process when the impact of the Sound Transit and Metro bus operations aren’t available.
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