Neighborhood Planning

Sagrada Seattle

As regular readers know, we spent most of last week in Barcelona, Spain. Before you get too jealous, it was a business trip, so we had little time for much beyond the conference we came to attend. That, plus we've spent several weeks in Barcelona previously and have ceased to really enjoy it. While the architecture is stunning, the labyrinthine Barri Gòtic has been largely overrun by chain stores (albeit Spanish chain stores), mediocre restaurants and touristic chocolate shops, transforming the…

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Neighborhood Planning Feedback Meeting

Back in the late 90's, the Seattle Department of Planning and Development (DPD), along with various community councils and groups, put together a set of Neighborhood Plans, intended to help guide the growth of Seattle over the coming decades. Now, the city is in the midst of assessing progress on those plans: During June and July, many neighbors joined in meetings and many other hundreds participated in on line questionnaires to review the Draft Neighborhood Status Reports and comment on changes—…

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Where’s Green Lake?

Back in February, we got an e-mail from a reader asking about the official borders for Wallingford. Specifically, there was some confusion about whether the area north of 50th, oftentimes referred to as Tangletown, was part of Green Lake or Wallingford. We did our homework, consulting with sources such as Zillow and Wikipedia, and confirmed what any sensible person must already know: Tangletown is part of Wallingford, who's official border runs along the north edge of 60th St., except around Meridian,…

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Community Center / McGinn Reports?

Last week had interesting events in Wallingford (besides the Winchell's - Rancho Bravo affair): Thursday's Community Center Meeting and Friday's visit from mayoral candidate Mike McGinn. We were able to attend neither. We're hoping some of our more civicly responsible neighbors did, however, and that we might prevail on them to post notes, thoughts, or impressions in the comments section of this post, for the benefit of ourselves and our readers. Thanks in advance.

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