The upzones are coming! The upzones are coming! (Can you picture me riding my horse through Wallingford and sounding the alarm just like Paul Revere?) But seriously, the City Council is moving forward.

On January 7, the City had the first of five special committee meetings to discuss the HALA MHA upzones. A public hearing has been scheduled for February 21 and a final City Council vote is set for March 18. Yikes.

There’s currently a glut of empty luxury apartments and increased density is driving gentrification in historically minority neighborhoods like the Central District, but the City moves forward …

Unless SDOT has a change of heart in the coming months (as they’ve recently been known to do), cyclists will have a safer way to travel between lower Wallingford and the heart of Fremont, beginning in 2020.

With funding from the 2015 Levy to Move Seattle, three potential design alternatives for protected bike lanes on North 34th Street between Stone Way and Fremont Avenue were pitched to the public via in-person forums and online surveys in early 2018. Design alternative #1 removed existing on-street parking, widened vehicle travel lanes, and installed a protected …

As most readers are aware, there have been numerous coyote sightings in the neighborhood over the past few months. I wrote about some of them back in November and December. In that more recent post, I quoted an email from the zoo indicating that they would shortly be starting an Urban Carnivore Project accessible on their webpage.

I recently received an email from Robert Long, Senior Conservation Scientist at the zoo informing me that the project website has now gone live. In broad terms, the objective of the project is to document and study “how carnivores live and interact with …

Out walking tonight, I saw several police cars patrolling the neighborhood, going the wrong way down Latona and up Thackeray until they all seemed to converge up around NE 44th St and 2nd Ave NE. All told, there were eight police cars, a couple of fire trucks and an ambulance.

Geoff posted to our Facebook page:

For anyone who was curious about the convergence of 8 cop cars and 2 fire engines tonight, just south of 44th on 1st Ave., NE., I just walked down there to ask what was up. . . As per an SPD officer, a family …

Homelessness still is an issue for our city. As a community we have spent many millions of dollars over the past decade. As a citizen, the issue does not appear to have improved much after all that effort for any side of the issue.

This Friday, the Meaningful Movies will be screening Trickle Down Town, a film made by a Seattle native about homelessness. Here is the blurb from Meaningful Movies website: