Beacon Bits: Cheasty, permits, gardens, and snow plans
Photo from Seattle Department of Transportation
Cheasty Boulevard to get new brown street signs thanks to the Friends of Seattle’s Olmsted Parks (FSOP)’s recommendation made after the 2003 Seattle Olmsted Park System Centennial celebration. More about the signs in Crosscut.
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Speaking of Cheasty, Green Seattle Day is tomorrow. They’re looking for volunteers to help out in the Cheasty Greenspace at 10am Saturday, rain or shine.
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Recommended boundary maps for Seattle Public Schools new student assignment plan. The school board votes November 18th. There’s one more public meeting on Saturday (tomorrow).
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The Friends of the Seattle Public Library encourage you to email the undecided City Council members and help keep the Beacon Hill Library (and several others) open more than 35 hours a week.
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Identical permits to “Construct alterations to replace doors, windows and install air blend fan, per King Co. Sound Insulation Bid Pkg. #7 and floor plan, subject to field inspection, [subject to field inspection]” have been filed for a number of properties in South Beacon Hill, running about $40,000 a pop. (Sounds like a construction company made the same mistake multiple times.)
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United Way and El Centro are again offering free raised bed gardens and gardening assistance for seniors.
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KOMO’s Travis Mayfield reports on the US Senate approving funds for Seattle Youth Violence Prevention and El Centro’s executive director Estelle Ortega being named to newly elected King County Executive Dow Constantine’s transition team.
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Metro has announced their new winter “snow plan” — West Seattle Blog
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Thanks for the link to my Crosscut piece. I haven’t been down Cheasty lately — do you know if new-style green signs (exactly the same as Bigelow in your picture, but green) have already been put up there?
I am not sure. I kind of thought they had (most of the rest of the area got them in the last year), but maybe not. We’ll have to go down there and take a look.
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Benjamin, I drove on Cheasty last night and saw that part of it has the new green signs, part of it still has the old green signs, and at the bottom, at Cheasty and Winthrop — it has a new signpost with a brown Cheasty sign standing right next to an existing signpost with a green sign (of the old variety, IIRC)!
Thanks Wendi! Still trying to figure out why there are so many new-style green signs up on streets that are in the Olmsted list. THAT seems like a waste.