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City Announces Upcoming Neighborhood Planning Meetings

02.23.2009 News
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Last fall, neighborhood activists suffered a bad case of whiplash when, after a year of more process than progress, city leaders announced the fast-tracking of numerous neighborhood plan updates throughout the city, including five in Southeast Seattle, without actually informing the public. On Oct. 2, Hillman City neighbor and then Southeast District Council (SEDC) President [...]

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What if Futurewise & TCC Had a Community Meeting & Forgot to Invite the Community? 2/14

02.14.2009 News

Shockingly enough, we are just now hearing about a little shindig that Futurewise and Transportation Choices Coalition (TCC) are throwing tomorrow, Sat., Feb. 14, from 2 to 3:30 pm at the Rainier Vista Center’s WAMU Room (4410 29th Avenue South) where, according to TCC’s Director of Education and Outreach Shefali Ranganathan: We are excited to [...]

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Councilmember Sally Clark to Host Info Workshop on HB 1490; 2/18

02.08.2009 Development

Join Seattle City Councilmember and Rainier Valley neighbor Sally Clark for Trains, Density & Change; A Workshop on HB 1490, to be held Wed., Feb. 18, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at Langston Hughes Cultural Center Auditorium (104 17th Avenue South): While Seattle neighborhoods step into updating neighborhood plans, legislators in Olympia are considering House [...]

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Citizen About Town: Attending Community Meetings So You Don’t Have To

02.06.2009 Uncategorized

The RVP’s newest columnist, Citizen About Town, loves attending community meetings and taking copious notes. His readers love him because they can stay at home with the kids, a nice dinner and a glass of wine or whatever and still be privy to what’s being discussed during those endless hours of public meetings. Know that [...]

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Sally Clark Lukewarm on TOD Bill

02.04.2009 Uncategorized

Last night, Seattle City Councilmember and Rainier Valley neighbor Sally Clark, who chairs the Planning, Land Use and Neighborhood’s Committee, met with Rainier Valley neighbors concerned about HB 1490, the new Transit Oriented Development bill that mandates increased density in all neighborhoods within a half mile of light rail: “The jury’s out on the bill [...]

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Sally Clark to Discuss TOD, Neighborhood Planning With CC Community Council; 2/2

02.02.2009 Uncategorized

Word on the street is that Rainier Valley neighbor and City Councilmember Sally Clark is planning to present at this month’s Columbia City Community Council meeting on Mon., Feb. 2, at 6 pm at Columbia Library (4721 Rainier Avenue South). From Ray Akers: Learn about the Neighborhood Plan update process which is just getting underway. [...]

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ONA Says It Planned for Neighborhood Parking, City Blew It & ST Should Pick Up RPZ Tab

01.29.2009 News

Just a reminder that the public comment period for Residential Parking Zones (RPZ) around light rail stations in the Rainier Valley is coming to a close. Seattle’s Department of Transportation (SDOT) says the RPZ Program is a critical parking management tool that helps neighborhoods ease residential parking congestion created by non-residents. Othello Neighborhood Association (ONA) [...]

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Futurewise Says TOD Good for Environment, MBCC to Discuss; 2/2

01.28.2009 Uncategorized

Supporters of the new “Creating Transit Communities” bill making its way through the state legislature say that transit-oriented communities are good for the environment and that State House Bill 1490 will increase walkability: Countless recent planning processes and reports, including efforts by the state’s Climate Action Team and Land Use and Climate Change committees, Puget [...]

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Letter to the Community: SDOT’s Restricted Parking Proposal = $45 for Your Permit

01.06.2009 News

This just in from Othello Neighborhood Association (ONA) Chair Jenna Walden: ONA’s next meeting will be Tues., Jan. 27 at Holly Community Church at 7 pm. We will have SDOT presenting their proposed restricted parking program around the light rail station. Unfortunately, the date of our meeting is after the comment period has ended (Jan. [...]

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DON Creates New Position to Increase Community Involvement in Neighborhood Planning

12.11.2008 Development

Neighborhood planning is a hot topic throughout the city, especially in the Southeast District, where the recent fast-tracking of neighborhood plan updates, including the five in Southeast Seattle, had some neighbors a little worked up. For instance, when the City Council was recently speeding through the process of recruiting and appointing representatives to the City’s [...]

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Councilmember Clark to Discuss Neighborhood Planning With SENDC; 11/11

11.03.2008 Development

Last month, we told you about the recent fast-tracking of neighborhood plan updates throughout the city, including the five in Southeast Seattle, and that some community leaders, like Othello Neighborhood Association (ONA) President Jenna Walden and Southeast District Council (SEDC) Chair Boyd Pickrell are feeling rushed. Well word on the street is that Councilmember Sally [...]

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SE Community Leaders Suffering Bad Case of Neighborhood-Planning Whiplash; City Won’t Slow Down; Care to Join the Fun?

10.17.2008 Development

Yesterday we told you about the recent fast-tracking of neighborhood plan updates throughout the city, including the five in Southeast Seattle, and that some community leaders, like Othello Neighborhood Association (ONA) President Jenna Walden, are feeling rushed. Turns out Jenna’s not the only one with a bad case of neighborhood-planning whiplash. On Oct. 2, Hillman [...]

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ONA Chair Responds to Fast-Tracking of Neighborhood Plan Updates: “Community Would Like to Be Part of the Vision”

10.15.2008 Development

Last month, when we got word that a city draft resolution and legislation tying the neighborhood plans and station-area planning was coming up for a City Council vote in September, we asked Othello Neighborhood Association (ONA) President Jenna Walden what she thought since the MLK @ Holly Street Plan is one of five in Southeast [...]

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SENDC Takes on Neighborhood Planning Tonight in New Group’s 2nd Community Meeting

10.14.2008 Uncategorized

In August we told you about the Southeast Neighborhood District Council (SENDC) – a new group formed in response to an intense membership dispute within the Southeast District Council (SEDC), one of 13 citizen advisory groups in the city that serve to connect Seattle neighborhoods with all branches of City government via the City Neighborhood [...]

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