Miller neighbors buy drugs for one year old on Madison
(We got catnip for our daughter's cat's birthday present at the Madison Market.)
Jun 17, 2007
Two Reminders for this week
1) Tuesday 6PM Meeting with Jim Mueller, developer of projects at 23rd/Union and on Madison. Meet at the Central Cinema (21st & Union) for light refreshments and discussion.
2) Got time to write a letter to a judge about the effects of street drug dealing on your life? Court case is on Friday, so please write now! And yes, it would be great if you could turn up in court.
Jun 14, 2007
Lawyers, ... we need lawyers
Poor people fight, middle-class folks discuss and rich people call their lawyers.
from "Class struggles upward", a column by Jerry Large, Seattle Times, 6/14/07.
Something to think about the next time we meet for yet another Seattle-style neighborhood meeting about who knows what...
Miller blog leads Seattle Weekly to Ms. Helen's Soul Food
This week's Seattle Weekly has a very positive review of Ms. Helen's Soul Food at its new location (though not of the location itself: they think "Ms. Helen deserves a restaurant of her own. "). They found her via the post on this blog of the flyer in the window of Club Chocolate City. Happy to be of service!
Do they read my blog avidly, did they Google, or do they perhaps browse the Slog now and again?
Find her at: Rose Petals Restaurant, 6901 Martin Luther King Jr. Way S. RAINIER VALLEY. Open noon–8 p.m. Mon.–Fri.
Jun 12, 2007
Blog & Calender updates
Special note: Next Tuesday's meeting with developer Jim Mueller and Ellen O'Neill-Stephens Court Hearing are the two most important events in our area for quite a while. See next two blog posts about them.
Calendar items :
- Wednesday, June 13, 7:00pm Miller Community Center Advisory Council
- Thursday, June 14, 6:00pm Central Area Neighborhood District Council
- Thursday, June 14, 7:00pm New Capitol Hill park meeting
- Friday, June 15, 4:00pm Madrona/MLK Farmers' Market
- Friday, June 15, Juneteenth Celebration
- Saturday, June 16, 2:00pm Bike repair self-help
- Saturday, June 16, Juneteenth Celebration
- Sunday, June 17, 11:00am Broadway Farmer's Market
- Sunday, June 17, Juneteenth Celebration
- Tuesday, June 19, 6:00pm Union & Madison Development meeting
- Friday, June 22, 4:00pm Madrona/MLK Farmers' Market
- Saturday, June 23, 12:00pm Basic Bicycle Maintenance Class
- Saturday, June 23, 2:00pm Bike repair self-help
- Sunday, June 24, 11:00am Broadway Farmer's Market
For details (locations, agendas, links, contact details), and maybe some bonus entries, visit the calendar at:
http://ical.mac.com/andrew_taylor/Miller and click on an entry for details and links.You can subscribe to the calendar at:
webcal://ical.mac.com/andrew_taylor/Miller.ics
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Recent items on the blog:
- Reminder & Poster for development meeting
- Your letters, testimony, presence needed in Court
- Meet with developer of Madison and Union Street projects
- Strip Clubs along Madison?
- DPD Decision: 1834 24th Ave
- The Miller Year (and some) in pictures
- Free trees for your street
- Design Review Meeting: 23rd & Union
Reminder & Poster for development meeting
Here's a choice of flyers to post and share with friends and to remind you about next Tuesday's meeting with the developer who's going to be redeveloping properties at 23rd & Union and along Madison. The City Design Review Hearing for the 23rd/Union project is Wednesday June 27th.
Your letters, testimony, presence needed in Court
You all remember how unpleasant the groups of drug dealers on Madison used to make our lives. Most of them seemed to be destitute and were probably both dealers and users, in need of help and rehabilitation. We all felt grateful that Lt. Hayes, Seattle Neighborhood Group and POCAAN staffed the GOTS program there every Tuesday, to try and connect the destitute people with services.
You will not be surprised to learn that, among the destitute people on the street, there were also "career criminals". Please read this letter from Senior Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Ellen O'Neill-Stephens (who has been working tirelessly with our Madison task force for the last year) which details one such case and tells us what we can do to help in the prosecution. The gist of her letter is:
Your attendance at this sentencing will be an opportunity to tell a Superior Court Judge about the adverse effect open air drug markets have on your lives and work in these neighborhoods. Only a few community members may have the opportunity to address the court, so it will also be important to put your thoughts in a letter addressed to the judge.
Please send your signed letters to:
Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Justin Monroe
516 Third Ave. W554
Seattle, WA. 98104
Fax-296-0955
e-mail justin.monroe@metrokc.gov
The sentencing for Evelyn Lewis has been rescheduled for:
June 22, 2007 from 2:45 to 3:45
Honorable Catherine Shaffer,
King County Courthouse, Courtroom E753
Please feel free to contact Ellen, if you have any additional questions, at her e-mail address (Ellen.OneillStephens@Seattle.Gov) or cell phone 206-423-9756
The Sentencing Hearing is next week, so please write your letters NOW, and contact Ellen if you will be able to attend the Court Hearing.
You might also want to post your letters here, as comments to this message: Click the COMMENTS note at the end of this post. You may comment anonymously if desired.
Many thanks for your help: this prosecution may not directly help the East Madison Street neighborhood, but it will surely help 23rd & Union and other afflicted neighborhoods.
Many thanks,
Andrew
Jun 11, 2007
Meet with developer of Madison and Union Street projects
On Tuesday, June 19, at 6 P.M., Jim Mueller, who proposes to develop the site of the former Coleman Building (at 23rd and E. Union) will meet with us to talk about that site and other locations in the area that he proposes to develop, including a site on E. Madison St (2051 E. Madison) where the "Twilight Exit" is presently located.
The meeting will be from 6 to ~ 9 PM at the Central Cinema (1411 21st Avenue), and light refreshments will be served.
These sites are key to the Central Area and East Madison Street redevelopments and this meeting is an opportunity to talk to the developer and members of the design team in a more informal setting with more opportunity for exchange of ideas and information than the DPD early design guidance meeting for the 23rd & Union project (which is scheduled for June 27.). Such "pre-meetings" worked well for the Safeway development, and I encourage you to participate.
As I noted earlier:
I might add that I have been extremely impressed with Jim Mueller, a developer who's involved both in the Madison corridor and the 23rd & Union area. He's met with many of us, turned up at a neighborhood cleanup, and is clearly sensitive to many of our issues as well as those of others in the area. He's selected an architecture firm that we've had positive experiences with, and I think we'll all enjoy working with him to guide our neighborhood in its inevitable redevelopment.
If some of the text here seems more cogent than normal, it may be because I'm blatantly plagiarizing the Squire Park group's announcement of the meeting, though I could not resist putting my oar in to undo some of their good work.
Strip Clubs along Madison?
On Monday the City Council approved new zoning laws [KING 5 report, Seattle Times article] regulating the location of new strip clubs in Seattle, the rationale for which is given in the appendix to the legislation. See Councilmember Steinbrueck's webpage for other documents.
The new rules prohibit strip clubs near each other, or within 800' of schools, parks, community centers, child care centers, parks or open spaces. The supplied map of Seattle (CARE: large complex file) shows (in yellow) the very few places they will be allowed. I note that one of the closest such sites to downtown with good transportation [other than the South Lake Union/Seattle Center area] is the blocks of Madison between 19th and 21st. Some of that area has been redeveloped [Planned Parenthood, McKinney Manor] but Dean Falls' unoccupied properties (the former Club Chocolate City and Deano's Market) would appear to be eligible for use as "Adult Cabarets". One more thing to watch out for, I guess.
Lobbying City Council to amend the ordinance to include churches in the list of buffer areas would keep strip clubs away from our area.
Note that I may be being overly alarmist here, if we believe this quote from the Seattle Times article:
Two businessmen testified Monday against the new rules, saying they drove around the city with the new zoning map in hand and could not find any suitable place to open an "old-school cabaret" with an emcee and performing women.
"My partner and I hopped in our car and I drove to every spot" where clubs are allowed under the new rules, said Lucas Wunsch. "There is nothing."
DPD Decision: 1834 24th Ave
DPD page, with links to Decision document and appeal information
Land Use Application to subdivide one parcel into four unit lots. The construction of townhouses has been approved under Project #6090823. This subdivision of property is only for the purpose of allowing sale or lease of the unit lots. Development standards will be applied to the original parcel and not to each of the new unit lots.
| Project No. | 3007048 |
| Area | Downtown/Central |
| Zone | L2 |
| Address | 1834 24th Ave |
| Contact | Thomas Woldendorp |
| Contact Phone | (425) 837-8083 |
| Planner | Janet Wright |
| DPD Consultant Phone | (425) 741-3800 Ext. 178 Note: This project has been assigned to one of DPD's Planning Consultants. If you would like more information about the project, please call the assigned consultant with the project number. |
| Conditions | The following appealable decisions have been made based on submitted plans:
Appeals of this decision must be received by the Hearing Examiner no later than Jun 25, 2007. |
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