I've finally posted some neighborhood pictures via Google's Picasa website.
You can watch the slideshow above or click on the picture below to go to the site, where you can:
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MEDIA ADVISORY
Contact: Peter McGraw, Public Information Officer (206) 615-0950
peter.mcgraw@seattle.gov
Free Street Trees for Seattle Neighborhoods!
What: Department of Neighborhoods Neighborhood Matching Fund - Tree Fund
When: Applications by groups of neighbors are due on Friday, August 10th 2007
This fall, the Department of Neighborhoods will be providing free trees for planting on residential streets in Seattle neighborhoods. Applications are accepted from groups of neighbors and are due on Friday, August 10, 2007. This is the Tree Fund’s 11th year, having planted 18,000 trees, and investing over $650,000 in making Seattle a greener city.
The Tree Fund is a program of the Neighborhood Matching Fund and the Seattle Department of Transportation. In exchange for free trees to be delivered by the City this fall, groups of neighbors attend a City sponsored training session and then organize their neighbors to plant the trees. The goal is to beautify Seattle streets and to support a clean and green environment.
Seattle’s tree cover has shrunk from 40 percent of the city’s land area in 1972 to just 18 percent today, a decline that threatens nature’s ability to help manage storm water, reduce erosion, absorb climate-disrupting gases and clean the air. You can make a difference!
Who should apply? Groups of five households or more on a street or block are eligible to apply.
How many trees will be provided? Groups of households on a street or block can request a minimum of 10 and a maximum of 40 trees per project.
How can you obtain an application? Contact the Seattle Department of Neighborhoods,
(206) 684-0464 or visit our web site at www.seattle.gov/neighborhoods/nmf/treefund.htm
(See July 1991 and May/June 1992 "Miller Times" newsletters for details and pictures of our previous treeplanting extravaganzas, which were great community-building exercises. The tree in the pictures was, I believe, part of one of those efforts. )
Project No. 3005925
Area Downtown/Central
Zone NC2P 40'
Address 2203 E Union St
Applicant: James Mueller, (206) 624-8095.
Land Use Planner: Lisa Rutzick, (206) 386-9049
The applicants have applied for Design Review related to development of this site for a mixed-use development. At the early design guidance meeting, the applicants will present information about the site and vicinity. The public may offer comments regarding the design and siting of a mixed-use development on the subject site; and, the Design Review Board members will also offer comments and identify those Citywide Design Guidelines of highest priority in developing the site.
Date:
Time:
Location:
330 19th Av E
Multi-purpose Room
Calendar items :
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 Miller blog:
I recently drew your attention to a meeting this Saturday to re-interest neighbors in the Central Area Neighborhood Plan (1:30 to 3:30 PM Saturday, Garfield Community Center, 23rd & Cherry).
My previous post started with a facsimile of a postcard sent out by the Neighborhood Plan Implementation Team. Several of the bullet points (OK, frowny-face points, ☹) on the postcard appeared critical of developers. The team wants to emphasize that they are aware of both well-intentioned and less well intentioned developers, and were not wanting to paint with a broad brush.
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.
I invite you to come along on Saturday to talk about the Central Area Neighborhood Plan, and how we can use it to guide our neighborhood in the direction we'd like to see it go.
(As noted, in part, before). The Madison-Miller area took part in neighborhood planning as part of the Central Area plan process from 1996 to 1998: the resulting general plan is posted on the City website together with the scary and incomprehensible "Approval and Adoption Matrix" .
The Madison-Miller area, with the guidance of some very talented consultants, also produced its own Master Plan as part of the planning process, although it was never posted online by the City. I have now scanned and posted the Madison-Miller Master Plan: see the "Madison-Miller Neighborhood Plan" list of links, on the right of this page, just below the "Miller Links" list.
(Just found this great 1 page explanation of the Comprehensive Plan and Seattle's neighborhood planning efforts!)
For a flavor of the neighborhood planning process, check out the Spring 1996 "Miller Times" For some early results of the planning, see the Fall 1999 "Miller Times" and City's 2004 Fact Sheet on the plan.
Previous views of where the plans might be going are in the 2004 Priority Report and the 2005 Priority Update, which seem to be the City's last obvious neighborhood plan related activities. Councilmember Clark (a Neighborhood Plan Steward in a previous life) has expressed special interest in auditing and updating neighborhood plans. You can watch a video of the 5/19/07 Neighborhood Plan Workshop hosted by Councilmember Clark.
This weeks's edition of the Stranger (6/7/07) features an article by Charles Mudede entitled:
What we all want is simply this: for the dealers to do their thing without guns, without violence, so that the rest of us can do our things—our drugs, our art, our drinking, our shopping, our hiphopping, our fucking—in peace.The flaw in that argument is, of course, that he is simply asking for gun control, which is never going to happen in this country. Law enforcement can only control the gun-toting dealers by going after them as dealers. And some of us feel that we do need to control the intrinsically destructive addictions in our society: meth certainly, crack probably ...... This Slog comment says it much better than I did!
And that's it, man.
All the latest news, events, etc from the Bottleneck Lounge on Madison.
Bar owner Erin Nestor writes:
South African Meet Up at The Bottleneck Lounge Thurs. June 14th, 6:30 pm.
Calling all those who like a good time!Fine South African wines and plenty of drink specials.
Sample a shandy. Slam a Springbokkie.
Savor our own South African Latte.
Ability to speak Afrikaans (or Zulu or Tsonga or Swati....) not required!
2328 E. Madison St (between John and 23rd)
www.bottlenecklounge.com
(Several other events also noted on their wesite)
(Here's a Flyer from Sound Transit about the meeting and a diagram of the Capitol Hill Station)
Betsy Hunter of PPUNC writes:
After years of fluctuating plans and timelines, it's time to re-engage on Sound Transit and how it will impact all of our lives. This issue goes far beyond Broadway and touches us in the Pike/Pine,12th Avenue, and Squire Park neighborhoods as well.
See the map - for 8 years, significant portions of Broadway, Nagle Place, John Street, and Denny will be a major construction zone. While this is going on, businesses will be relocated, buildings will be demolished, and trucks, noise, and dust will be part of our daily life. When construction is completed, what should the property over the station areas look like? What kinds of retail space do we need? Should the housingabove be rental, condo, affordable, market rate?
The Capitol Hill Stewardship Council and Chamber of Commerce have invited Sound Transit to present their updated plans and it's time for all of us to comment. Strong attendance is vital for Sound Transit to hear from our community.
See the invitation below from the Chamber and Stewardship Council. And bring your friends and family members to the meeting next Tuesday.
The lovely Art Deco Fire Station on 23rd at Yesler (already an official Central Area landmark) is being replaced as part of the 2003 Fire Levy.
See meeting details below if you're interested in the possible relocation sites (and ask them for me what they're planning to do with the lovely old building: the one on 15th made a lovely video store!). Click on notice below for a more readable version.
Addendum (from Christina Faine, Fire Levy Communications Officer)
Yes, the existing structure has been designated as a landmark to
protect its historic character. Once the new station is built, the
current building will no longer serve as a fire station. The City
intends to sell the property and return the proceeds to the levy
program.
A neighbor with a business on Union writes:
Nice article on a decent, hard-working civil servant who throughout her career attempted to defy the Peter Principle and break Parkinson’s Law…
Thanks!
Capitol Hill Times article (5/3/07)
Sonja has been our crime prevention coordinator for most of the the time that the Miller Park Neighborhood Association has existed, except for when she spent a while working in Lake City. You'll find her mentioned in almost every copy of the Miller Times!
As far as I know, the City has not yet assigned a replacement for her!
Andrew
