Category Archives: Meetings

Clean and Green, Meetings

Your feedback wanted tonight about street trees

Street trees make Beacon Hill streets colorful. Photo by Wendi.

The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) is hosting a meeting tonight at Van Asselt Community Center to get your feedback about street trees and a revision of the street tree ordinance, which was last revised in 1961. The new revision is intended to improve protection and preservation of street trees. Street trees are defined as any trees growing in any city right-of-way.

The draft ordinance may be read here, and addresses tree protection and preservation, restrictions on tree removal, requirements for replacement trees, requirements for private tree companies, and penalties for violations of the ordinance.

Tonight’s meeting is at Van Asselt Community Center on South Beacon Hill, 2820 S. Myrtle Street, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. The Van Asselt meeting is one of five community meetings. The first was held Monday night at Highpoint Community Center and three further meetings are also scheduled for Miller Community Center, Meadowbrook Community Center, and Ballard Community Center.

You can find out more about the ordinance and upcoming meetings, and submit comments online at the SDOT website.

Meetings, Recreation

Public invited to Jefferson Park Golf improvements meeting

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The skyline from the Jefferson Park driving range. Photo by binarymillenium in the Beacon Hill Blog photo pool on Flickr.

The second public meeting to discuss improvements to the Jefferson Park golf course is scheduled for next Thursday, December 15, at 7 p.m. at the Jefferson Park Golf Course Clubhouse, 4101 Beacon Ave. S. All interested community members are invited to this meeting to meet the design team and comment on the planned design.

The current proposed schematic design includes a two-story clubhouse with a banquet hall, café, pro shop, and teaching space; a double-deck driving range with improvements; a modified cart barn; modified cart paths; and parking modifications. Lead design firm for the project is Bassetti Architects, and other sub-consultants include The Berger Partnership and Nuzzo Course Design.

The budget for the renovation project is a total of $7,283,686, funded by the 2011 Multi Purpose Limited Tax General Obligation Debt, Ordinance #123442. The design process is scheduled to run until May 2012, and completion of the project is scheduled for April 2013.

Find out more about the project at the project website.

Meetings

Budget cuts, recognitions on NBHC meeting agenda

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The agenda has been announced for the North Beacon Hill Council December meeting, which will be held next Tuesday, December 6, at 7 p.m. in the Beacon Hill Library community room. All are welcome. You are part of the council when you attend your first meeting, and you have voting privileges when you attend your second.

This month’s agenda:

  • 7:00 Welcomes and introductions
  • 7:05 Bernie Matsuno, Director, Department of Neighborhoods
    • What the latest budget cuts mean to the department, Beacon Hill
    • Recognition of North Beacon Hill accomplishments
  • 7:35 Questions and answers from the participants
  • 7:50 Community concerns, reports from committees, announcements
  • 8:15 Executive Board Meeting as needed
Meetings, Urban Planning

Early design guidance meeting scheduled for 12th Ave project

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The Design Review Board will gather for an early design guidance meeting on December 13 to discuss an apartment development project proposed for 1814 12th Ave. S., one block west of Beacon Hill Playground.

The proposal is to demolish the existing single-family residence on the site (which is zoned Lowrise 3) and build a four-story, 23-unit apartment building. There would be 12 underground parking spaces provided.

At an early design guidance meeting such as this one, applicants present information about the site and the project. Public comment is then allowed, and the members of the Design Review Board will give their comments and suggest guidelines for the continuation of the development project.

The meeting is on Tuesday, December 13 at 8 p.m., at the WellSpring Family Services Center community room, 1900 Rainier Ave. S. For further information, contact planner Bruce Phillip Rips, at 206-615-1392.


The site of the proposed apartment building. View a larger map at Google Maps.

Meetings, Urban Planning

Design Review Board to discuss 25th Ave apartment project

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The Design Review Board is holding a public meeting on December 13 to discuss the development project proposed for 2715 25th Ave. S. and 2615 25th Ave. S., on the east slope of Beacon Hill just west of the Rite Aid/QFC building. (Meeting announcements are here and here.)

The project proposes the construction of two 7-story apartment buildings with a combined total of 307 units, including parking for 297 vehicles. The lots currently contain five mid-century single family homes.

See the DPD permit information here and here.

An Early Design Guidance Meeting was held on June 28 to discuss this project. Here is the project report presented by the development team at that time. You can read a summary of the meeting and the guidance from the Design Review Board here. At the December 13 meeting, the applicants will present the revised design and discuss how they have responded to the priorities and concerns brought up at the Early Design meeting. The public is invited to attend and comment.

The meeting is on Tuesday, December 13, at 6:30 p.m. in the WellSpring Family Services community room at 1900 Rainier Ave. S.

This was one possible site plan shown at the June Early Design Guidance meeting. At the December 13 meeting, the public will be able to see how the concept has changed.
Meetings, Recreation

El Centro planning further park improvements

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This happy child plays at the Santos Rodriguez Memorial Park. Photo by Melissa Jonas in the Beacon Hill Blog photo pool in Flickr.
After extensive improvements to equipment and the addition of a covered picnic area, El Centro de la Raza opened the Santos Rodriguez Memorial Park playground to the public last summer. It’s been a hit with community members of all ages.

But wait, there’s more! Through the Parks and Green Spaces Opportunity Fund, the Seattle Parks and Recreation Department awarded El Centro an additional $350,000 to improve the park further.

To learn more and be part of the design process for the upcoming park improvements, attend the first public meeting about this project on November 15 from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at El Centro de la Raza’s Salvador Allende room, Room 106. El Centro’s address is 2524 16th Ave. S. Find out more about the project at the project’s website, or read the meeting flyer.

Meetings

Proposition 1 on agenda for NBHC meeting

The North Beacon Hill Council is meeting tonight, November 1, at 7:00 p.m. in the Beacon Hill Library Community Room. All are welcome, as always.

The announcement the council sent out yesterday said “Our agenda is yet to be finalized, however it will address an issue we all care about—the proposal by the City Council to increase car tab fees by $60 (Proposition 1).”

Here’s the current agenda:

  • 7:00 Welcome
  • 7:05 Thoughts in favor of Prop. 1
  • 7:15 Thoughts in opposition to Prop. l
  • 7:25 Questions and Answers
  • 8:00 Community Concerns
    • Cutting your energy usage
    • Other community reports
  • 8:30 Executive Board Meeting (as needed)
Meetings, Urban Planning

Tonight: Early Design Guidance meeting for station block project

As alluded to in this space yesterday, this evening is the Early Design Guidance meeting for the proposed four-story commercial/residential structure at 2721 17th Ave. S., the southeast corner of the Beacon Hill Station block.

The meeting starts at 6:30 p.m. at the Wellspring Family Services community room, 1900 Rainier Ave. S.

The property was previously used for staging during the construction of Beacon Hill Station, and before that, contained single-family homes. Since the station opened in July 2009, the lot has been bare and surrounded by chain-link fence.

This proposed building would only cover part of the station block property. The triangular lot at the southwest corner would not be developed, nor would part of the rest of the block, as those properties have different owners. The development firm involved in the project is Pacific Housing NW.

Neighbor Carol Sanders posted to the Beacon Hill mailing list yesterday, encouraging interested Beacon Hill residents to attend the meeting:

“This is the best chance for the public to offer comments about design and the siting of the development. We’re going to have a lot of density coming our way with developers building up housing around the light rail area. It would be really great to have the neighborhood involved in making sure that these buildings will contribute to the look and feel of Beacon Hill and not just become big sterile boxes for folks to live in. We can really impact things like how the sidewalk areas interact with the building, possible public spaces, greenery, etc. if people get involved early in the design process and speak up at these meetings.”


View Larger Map. This is the location of the proposed apartment building at the Beacon Hill Station block.

Getting Around, Meetings

Beacon B.I.K.E.S. meeting tonight

Dylan Ahearn writes:

The October Beacon BIKES meeting will be held tonight from 6-8 pm at the Beacon Hill Library. Sam Woods from SDOT will be presenting information on our 17th/18th Greenway (currently under construction). Deb Brown (SDOT) will be presenting the tree planting plan for the same corridor (planting to occur in November). We will also be discussing Red Apple bike parking, upcoming grant opportunities, and the city-wide Greenway effort.

Hope to see you there!

Meetings

Rizal Park off-leash area changes to be discussed at 10/20 meeting

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As mentioned previously in this space, Seattle Parks and Recreation will host a public meeting this Thursday, October 20 from 6:30-8 p.m. to present and discuss possible changes to the off-leash area (OLA) at Dr. Jose Rizal Park. The meeting will be at Jefferson Community Center, 3801 Beacon Ave. S.

The construction of the nearby Mountains to Sound Trail has provided an opportunity to reconfigure areas of the park including the OLA. In the proposed changes, the OLA would be reduced in size and fenced, to provide a buffer between the dog area and bicycle traffic. However, all of the property within the OLA would be usable, which is not the case with the current site.

The proposal is not without controversy. “Save our off-leash area!” reads a headline on Frieda Adams’ “Friends of Jose Rizal Off-Leash Area” website, which contains commentary about the proposed changes, and a petition form to keep the OLA at its current size.

Adams is not in favor of Parks’ proposed changes to the site footprint, and suggests that the city is shrinking the site because of low attendance and perceived vulnerability to crime in the area: “Whether low attendance is due to fear, whether it’s due to neglect on the part of the Parks Department and COLA, whether it’s true that nobody is using the site—these are all considerations the City must take into account before scrapping the off-leash area’s original concept.”

Those interested in the future of the park and of the OLA should attend Thursday’s meeting, where Parks’ plan will be presented in full.