Wallingford’s Park and Street Fund Projects: Vote!

The comments on the projects were very helpful. The Tangletown cut through prevention project is being withdrawn since a majority of the commenters were negative about it. Hopefully the active discussion that resulted will end up producing a better proposal next year. Here are the locations of the remaining projects: If you're not familiar with a project just scroll down through the last 4 posts for more detail. The Wallyhood winner will be determined by the total number of check boxes a proposal…

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Crossing Improvements at N 43rd St and Stone Way N

Here is the last of 5 projects submitted for the Neighborhood Project and Street Fund. Your feedback is welcome and helpful as the Wallingford Community Council and other groups decide which projects to endorse. Tomorrow I plan to set up a vote to further help determine preferences. This proposal is from Desiree. Desiree is writing as a parent and lifelong caretaker of a child who was seriously injured crossing Stone Way North: Stone Way North is one of Seattle’s most difficult streets…

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Crosswalk at N Northlake Way and Eastern Ave N

Here is the 4th of 5 projects submitted for the Neighborhood Project and Street Fund. Your feedback is welcome and helpful as the Wallingford Community Council and other groups decide which projects to endorse. Mark contributed to this application on behalf of the Northlake Safety & Security Team, which is committed to finding solutions to improve the safety and security of the residents, workers, students, cyclists, joggers, customers and visitors that share this unique community. The proposed location of our project would improve…

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Clean Up and Lighting of Burke Gilman Trail

Here is the 3rd of 5 projects submitted for the Neighborhood Project and Street Fund. Your feedback is welcome and helpful as the Wallingford Community Council and other groups decide which projects to endorse. Erika from the Wallingford Community Council submitted this proposal: This proposal is for lighting (perhaps motion lighting and/or reflective lighting) and general clean-up along the Burke-Gilman Trail running parallel to N. Northlake Place between 1421 N 34 St. and Woodlawn Ave N. This is the stretch of…

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Environmental Restoration of Waterway 22

Here is the second of 5 projects submitted for the Neighborhood Project and Street Fund. As with yesterday's project, your feedback is welcome and helpful as the Wallingford Community Council and other groups decide which projects to endorse. Reid Haefer contributed to this application. He is a Wallingford Resident and Chair of the Friends of North Lake Union (FONLU), which is a neighborhood group dedicated to the ecological improvement of Lake Union and its surrounding shoreline: This project application requests NPSF…

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Preventing Tangletown Cut Throughs To Get To I-5

Much like God himself, over the next 6 days you’ll get to remake Wallingford through your will alone. For the first 5 days I’ll list out the 5 Wallingford Park and Street Fund projects that have been proposed, and in the comments you can do Q&A with people that proposed the projects. On the sixth day you’ll get to vote for your preferred projects. Your comments and voting are important, as neighborhood organizations are looking to this blog to help them…

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Wallingford in the News, Unfortunately

There was a murder on Saturday night or Sunday morning that reportedly took place on the 3900 block of Burke Ave N, about 2 blocks SE of Hamilton. King County prosecutors report that 24-year-old Biftu Dadi was stabbed to death by 29-year-old Attila Richards in the back of her Jeep Cherokee, after they were reportedly first sleeping in the car for a while. I say reportedly as the news stories makes it seem that this information is a result of self-reporting by…

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