Which Seattle neighborhood has the highest number of people and jobs within a 10 minute walk of a frequent transit station? Join us on May 3 to learn the answer and why it’s important to your neighborhood’s future.
Thursday, May 3, 2012
5:30 – 8:00 p.m.
City Hall – Bertha Knight Landes room
600 4th Avenue, Seattle, Washington
Seattle will add more than 100,000 residents by 2035, along with thousands of new jobs. The City’s Comprehensive Plan is a blueprint for how and where we handle all that growth. We want your ideas on how we can best guide smart and sustainable growth for future generations.
On May 3rd, you are invited to join City planners and the Seattle Planning Commission at an interactive and thought-provoking discussion. Our breakout sessions will focus on climate change actions, walkable communities, and attractive and functional buildings and streets.
This meeting is an important step for developing amendments to the Seattle Comprehensive Plan and the update to the Climate Action Plan. Please spread the word to your friends and neighbors about this opportunity and join us on May 3rd.
Learn more at:
www.seattle.gov/dpd/planning/compplan
www.facebook.com/SEA2030
www.seattle.gov/environment/climate_plan.htm
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Join the Seattle City Council for one of three conversations in May about the City budget and community priorities. Participants will engage City Councilmembers and neighbors in conversation centered on five thought-provoking questions about the future of our City.
South Seattle
Monday, May 21, 2012, 6 – 7:30 p.m.
New Holly Gathering Hall, 7054 32nd Ave South
This event will feature the World Café format and is a chance to meet and engage your elected officials and neighbors in conversation, a place to learn about the basics of the City budget and choices faced by City policymakers and an opportunity to participate in the civic life of your home community.
These conversations are not a formal public hearing and do not require extensive knowledge of City politics, policy or history. The Council will hold public hearings on the 2013 City budget and Capital Improvement Program in the fall where members of the community will be invited to advocate for specific programs and services.
Discover other ways to let your voice be heard at City Hall at www.seattle.gov/council/budget.
The Seattle Department of Neighborhoods and The Next Fifty invite participation in a community filmmaking project that will celebrate Seattle’s neighborhoods and the civic life within them. Submit your film (up to 3 minutes) between now and August 31. Selected participants will receive small cash awards and the opportunity to screen their films at a festival during The Next Fifty’s Civic Action month in October.
More information is at www.thenextfifty.org/filmproject/.
On April 30 at the NRV Neighborhood House, there will be a meeting with the King County Department of Transportation regarding public transportation on the MLK corridor. Come share your experience with Public Transit and your ideas for improvement:
- Where do you travel and how do you get there?
- What works about the transit options that are available, and what doesn’t?
- How can Metro, Sound Transit and the City of Seattle do better?
The meeting is Monday, April 30, at 6pm in the large meeting room at the NRV Neighborhood House. Snacks, interpreters and a $10 ORCA card will be provided for all participants.
Questions? Contact DeAnna Martin at 206-684-1142 or deanne.martin@kingcounty.gov.
Come voice your concerns and give feedback directly to the Mayor at this upcoming event. Bonus: learn more about your community!
Mayor’s Town Hall
Thursday, April 26
Ethiopian Community Mutual Association
8323 Rainier Ave S
5:30pm - Community Information Fair
6:30pm - Performance by NW Tap Connection
6:40pm - Open Q&A with Mayor McGinn and City Staff
The downtown Seattle Ride Free Area is scheduled to end at the end of September 2012. More information is available at Metro’s website.
Metro has extended the comment period regarding these up-coming changes until Friday, April 13. If you have a comment, here’s how to be heard:
Online: http://metro.kingcounty.gov/tops/bus/ride-free-area/changes.html
By phone: 206-296-7643 (English); 206-263-9988 (Spanish); or 206-263-9674 (Vietnamese)
By email: community.relations@kingcounty.gov
By regular mail: King County Department of Transportation Communications, 201 S. Jackson St., KSC-TR-0824, Seattle, WA 98104
As a result of continued fiscal challenges and cuts to The Seattle Public Library funding, the Seattle City Council is considering placing a Library levy on the Aug. 7, 2012, ballot to supplement city funding.
The City Council will hold a public hearing to receive community input on this proposed levy. Everyone is welcome to attend and address the City Council.
City Council Public Hearing
5:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 3
Council Chambers
Seattle City Hall
600 Fourth Ave., Floor 2
For more information, you can view the press release or read about the Libraries for All plan.
Celebrate Earth Day by joining your neighbors in a day to beautify the Rainier Valley! Participation is easy:
pick a project (litter collection, paint out graffiti, weed an empty lot, create a community garden, tend to traffic circle plants, etc); form a team; and register for supplies and support.
For more information, contact Nhi Tran at 206-322-6134 or Yun Pitre at 206-730-0364.
The Southeast Asian Advisory Council meeting is on third Tuesday of every two months. This month will be on Tuesday February 21, 2012 at 5:00 PM in the Paul Allen room at the Neighborhood House (4410 39th Ave South).
Please attend the meeting and bring up your ideas or issues for the group to discuss. Your participation is very important and beneficial to SE Asian businesses, the SE Asian Community, as well as the citizens of city of Seattle. Your voice is very important to us; please come to share your concerns.
If you have any questions regarding of the meeting or you have any issues you wish to discuss during the meeting, please contact Linh Thach at 206-612-8572, Trong Tang at 206- 467-1785 or Sompasong Keohavong at 206- 679- 7575 so that your concerns would be included in the agenda for discussion.
You are invited to a town hall in Columbia City on Saturday, February 11, with Mayor Mike McGinn. Ask your questions and let the mayor know what’s on your mind.
Columbia City Town Hall
Saturday, February 11
11 am to 12 pm
Royal Esquire Club
5016 Rainier Ave S.
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