Wallingford, Seattle

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…

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:  

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…

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…

The Wallingford Community Council meeting this past Wednesday did not have an agenda posted before hand, so attendance was light, although 2 city council candidates did attend. Kudos to Catherine Weatbrook and Michael Maddux for coming! Catherine Weatbrook is running against Mike O'Brien, who skipped the Wallingford debate in the last election cycle at the last possible second, with the excellent excuse that he needed to attend a fund raiser in Eastern Washington somewhere. More impartial reporting: The first topic was live-in campers on…

Stephen Fickenscher submitted the following: Last Wednesday Wallingford Toastmasters Club 252 had a retirement party for Dick Hendricks. Dick is 105 years old and a founding member of our club from back in 1960. The celebration was attended by 40 guests. Many of the current members and past members in attendance hadn't even been born when Dick started the Wallingford club, although one former member in attendance has known Dick his entire life and helped Dick get the club going back…