Category Archives: Transfer Station

Monthly Meeting, Wednesday November 7

Time: 7 PM.
Location: Room 202 of the Good Shepherd Center, 4659 Sunnyside Ave N.

Agenda:

  • Welcome / Call to Order.
  • K C Dietz and Amalia Walton from the Lake Washington Rowing Club on maintaining public access to Lake Union at Waterway 23.
  • Eliza Ives and Jacob Orenberg from Seattle City Light on the “Public Direct Current (DC) Fast Charging Electric Vehicle” pilot program in the Gas Works Park area.
  • Darby Watson, Project Development Director, from the Seattle Department of Transportation will give an overview of recent design changes to the Green Lake and Wallingford Paving and Multi-Modal Improvement Project (which includes N/NE 40th Street).
  • The City Arborist will discuss plans for the trees along N/NE 40th Street (and answer questions).
  • Committee reports.
  • Announcements:
    • The next Monthly Meeting will be Wednesday December 5, 7 PM.
    • The play area in Wallingford Playfield will close on Tuesday November 6 for renovation and improvement, and is expected to open with new play equipment in early 2019.
    • The play areas at the North Transfer Station are closed through December 2018 for improvements to address Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requirements. If you are disabled or know someone who is disabled, then contact experienced Fairhope disability attorneys to help you seek social security claim.
  • Good of the Order (anything people want to bring up).
  • Adjourn.

Play Areas closed at the North Transfer Station

The play areas on Woodlawn Ave N and Carr Place N at the North Transfer Station are closed while contractors for Seattle Public Utilities (SPU) work on improvements to address Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requirements. Much of the public space including the fitness equipment will be closed for the duration of the construction and the work areas will be surrounded by temporary fencing. Work is expected to continue through December 2018.

Pavement at the basketball court will be changed to standard concrete. There will also be new handrails installed along some of the walkways, improving access for all users. If you are a basketball enthusiast, you can go to website of Mega Slam fixed height basketball systems and install them to horn your basketball skills. SPU will try to open up individual areas (like the playground) as soon as they are fully completed. The work notice has more details on work hours and construction impacts.

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MHA DEIS Comments Due by Monday August 7

We need you and your friends and neighbors to comment this weekend!

The Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) evaluates the Mandatory Housing Affordability (MHA) program impacts on Urban Villages, and in multi-family and commercial areas throughout Seattle. Residents from many neighborhoods have reviewed and analyzed the DEIS.  The results are available in the Comments folder and the Analysis folder.

Please view the comment and analysis documents, find the issues important to you, and email your comments to the City at MHA.EIS@seattle.gov or by using the online form.  Submitting many brief comments is probably preferable to sending one long email.  The more people who submit comments, the more seriously the City has to address the comments!

If you are overwhelmed or short of time, here is a suggested comment to make:

“The DEIS is not sufficient to represent all Urban Villages and the City overall. Each Urban Village is unique, with different housing types, cultural traditions, businesses, resources, and growth needs. This DEIS fails to recognize and examine these differences.

Each Urban Village and Surrounding Area needs to be analyzed separately, thoroughly and accurately via their own individual EIS.

Additionally, the DEIS does not address how the whole City will be impacted by the changes both in this DEIS and the other SEPA analyses combined. Seattle residents live in both their own neighborhoods and in the City at large, yet this DEIS has failed to analyze the impacts to both thoroughly and accurately.”

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Monthly Meeting on Wednesday, February 1, 7:00 pm

Location: Room 202 of the Good Shepherd Center, 4659 Sunnyside Ave N.

Agenda:

Welcome / Call to Order
Approval of Minutes
Program:

  • Update on possible uses of Meridian Playground, Wallingford Playfield, and Recycling Challenge funds – Eric Fisk.
  • Update on the UW Campus Master Plan Comments and Future Review – Brian O’Sullivan or Jon Berkedal.
  • Impact Fees to support housing growth – Eric Fisk and Ted Hunter.
  • Q & A with Geoff Wentlandt from the City of Seattle.

Good of the Order (anything people want to bring up)
Announcements:

  • Yard Signs: ‘Keep Seattle Livable; No HALA “Grand Bargain” Upzones’.
  • Find It, Fix It Walk with Mayor Murray: Community Walk Action Team meeting on Thursday, February 16, 6:30 pm at Wallingford Center in Suite 206, between Bootyland and Bad Woman Yarn.  RSVP requested to Lemmis Stephens III.
  • Seattle Public Utilities (SPU) wants community feedback on their Strategic Business Plan. Tuesday, February 7, 5:30 – 7:30 pm at the North Transfer Station.  See the Customer Outreach page for other meeting times and locations.
  • Seattle Tenant Bootcamp on Wednesday, April 5, 7:00 pm as part of the WCC Monthly meeting.
  • The next WCC Monthly Meeting is on Wednesday, March 1, 7:00 pm

Adjourn

Community Celebration at the North Transfer Station Saturday December 10

Saturday December 10, 2016, 10:00 – 11:30 AM
N 34th Street and N Northlake Place

The North Transfer Station is now open! Join Deputy Mayor Kate Joncas and Seattle Public Utilities for a celebration and refreshments. Come see the features of the new station.

Transfer Station is Open

From The Seattle Times: Nicest dump around? New $108M transfer station in Wallingford even has a basketball court.

Park and Playground are Open

The park and the playground next to the North Transfer Station are open.  The park is along Woodlawn Ave N between N 34th and N 35th Streets, and includes a partial basketball court.  The playground is along N 35th Street between Woodlawn Ave N and Carr Place N, and includes play structures for climbing and sliding.