Wallyhood Calendar: Carr, Whirligig, and Alice

Here's some highlights from the coming week on the Wallyhood Calendar: Your school board rep Sherry Carr is available at 8:30 this morning and the second Saturday of every month from 8:30 AM to 10 AM at Bethany Community Church - Christian Education Building, 8023 Green Lake Dr. You may wish to discuss with her the possibility that Hamilton is thinking about expanding into Lincoln. Alice in Wonderland begins its run at Stone Soup Theatre. The performance runs Friday – Saturday evenings at 7:30pm and…

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Accidents at Wallingford and N 41st Street

On Thursday April 2nd, I was driving on N 42nd Street towards Wallingford Ave N when I saw what appeared to be the aftermath of a car accident on Wallingford. There was a black SUV with some pretty bad damage to the front and a girl on the sidewalk crying with a woman. I thought it was strange because my husband had just witnessed an accident at Wallingford and N 41st in December with a car in a truck. I requested…

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Free Rain Gardens: Better Than Sewage in Lake Union

As has been covered on Wallyhood before, when it rains Wallingford's toilet flushes go into Lake Union at the bottom of Stone Way. This is partly because the down spouts on old construction go into the same tube your toilet does. The city wants to mitigate that by providing you with free rain gardern stuff if you live near Stone Way. Not convinced? Madison Davis with Seattle University says: In hopes of better understanding how residents place value on green infrastructure such as rain gardens, I…

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More Fun with Maps: New Developments Edition

In December a tool was brought online that mashes up Google Maps with DPD info- you zoom to any place on the map and review DPD proposals in detail from the drop pin. For instance, here's the triangle development at midvale and 45th talked about at the last WCC meeting, and here's the CVS building. Below is a snapshot of the entire neighborhood, click to go to the interactive site:  

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Fun With Maps: Wallingford Crime and Punishment

Crime reports come into Wallyhood anecdotally, so I thought it would be an interesting thing to check out the Seattle Police Incident Map for a larger view. This doesn't include traffic accidents, but most anything else the police deal with gets reported on the incident map. Here is the view for the past week as of Monday (4/6). The green icons are for property theft, which dominates weekly reports. Car prowls are the winner for reported crime, with frequent reports also showing…

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Move Levy: I-5 Bridge For Northgate But Not Wallingford

For Wallingford, the real Move Transportation Levy story involves 2 possible pedestrian / bike bridges over I-5. One bridge connects the Northgate Light Rail Station with North Seattle College. The community college has 6,000 students and is surrounded by a low density neighborhood. The bridge requires a multi-story elevation climb and SDOT estimates the bridge must be about 2,000 feet long to climb that height and then cover the wide stretch of I-5 there, resulting in a 25 million dollar preliminary price tag. While…

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Everything Closed? Check Out New Parks!

The 2008 parks levy paid for work on the Lower Woodland Park playfields and for a playground at Gasworks. The playfields were done right away because they saved the parks department on maintenance costs, and the playground at Gasworks has been put off to next year because it adds to maintenance costs (the levy didn’t include money for operations, so that’s how parks sorted projects). The Gasworks playground is currently scheduled to open in March 2016 after construction this fall, but it…

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