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The Mayor's on Broadway

By jseattle
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Starting at Roy St. Reps from Chamber, Community Council, POWHAT, GSBA, Gage, more

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10:21AM - The mayor visits Metrix Create. His question: What brings people here? "People like to work with their hands," owner Matt Westervelt (sp?? :) ) said.
10:24AM - Visit to the parking lot landscaping project forged by community and developers at the interim Bank of America building on north Broadway.
10:25AM - The duties of a modern mayor include Tweeting. Here we are visiting Poppy's herb garden.
10:40AM - At the current B of A talking about the 230 Broadway project. Mayor's asking about the 300+ parking stalls included in the project. The developer says the market demands it. Breaks ground in February.

10:51AM - Visit to the light rail wall and the Capitol Hill Housing overhaul of the Holiday Apartments. The mayor: "This is a choice property."
11:14AM - At Elliott Bay for the community Q&A. Starting with a statement from mayor on the budget. "We've had to make some significant cuts in services."

11:16AM - Mayor says election will likely reduce city's budget further if liquor is privatized and candy tax repealed.

11:23AM - Mayor talks about some new data from interim US census report showing that Seattle commuters are driving 7.7% less than decade ago.

11:24AM - First question to mayor is about why a man's car was towed for leaving it on the street 72 hours. All politics is local? All politics is personal.

11:29AM - Another parking question, this from Louise Chernin of the GSBA who would like to see introduction of variable metered parking in Seattle.

11:32AM - "We weren't able to develop a dynamic pricing model in nine months." But mayor says he's "very interested" in it.

11:38AM - Mayor says likely that Sound Transit will slice budget dedicated to art. Says he plans to preserve arts as much as possible in his budget. But he does want to spend in better fashion. Claims city has 30% of owned art work in storage.

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Typical subject in response to McGinn thread
Typical comments regarding McGinn thread.

Something something bike lanes, bikes destroying business, truck drivers as second class citizens, Mayor McSchwinn, bike lanes, bike boxes, $20,000,000,000 paint, walking, pedestrians, Capitol Hill needs fewer bike lanes, more parking, cheaper parking, more amenities for cars, bikes bikes bikes bikes

And bikes.

Typical rhetorical question regarding McGinn's dedication to bikes.

Typical incredulous response to those who like bikes.

SOCIALISM!!!
Comment by AJ
October 16, 2010
RE: Typical subject in response to McGinn thread
Enthusiastic agreement from Bellevue resident professing to be from Seattle.
Comment by Anonymous
October 16, 2010
Poor leader
McGinn is a useless mayor who seems to have only one issue he cares about (bikes). And he's an outright liar...during the last weeks of his campaign for mayor, he said he would not do anything to get in the way of the tunnel project, yet he has done everything he can to do just that. Say what you will about Greg Nickels, but at least he had some great ideas to improve our city, and he was strong enough to make them happen.

I fervently hope, and expect, that McGinn will be a one-term mayor.
Comment by calhoun
October 17, 2010
Mayor speaks for Sound Transit on art budget?
It is curious that the Mayor would speak for Sound Transit on Sound Transit's plans for funding art projects in the future. Wonder what Sound Transit's Art Program Manager Barbara Luecke thinks about his comment.

I hope the mayor follows through on his desire to preserve the arts. A worrisome indicator: the application period for City of Seattle's Civic Partner grants for art organizations was originally scheduled to open in September but now has been delayed until "2011, date to be determined." So it appears the funding level is uncertain.

As someone mentioned on twitter (jseattle?) maybe the city should hold a garage sale of the 30% of art inventory in city storage. Love the concept, but of course impractical in execution. Still, this idea is begging for a single panel comic illustration. Anyone?
Comment by jeanineanderson
October 17, 2010
RE: Mayor speaks for Sound Transit on art budget?
Jeanie - food banks or the arts?

Need to get the stuff out of storage and on display - and accurately inventoried - oh, and by the way, art in storage is often stolen from insiders .....
Comment by Mike with curls
October 19, 2010
Sound Transit
Barbara was there, actually. The ST stuff came up as McGinn offered an example of how arts are likely to be stripped at other levels of government. It was cited in a context of 'we're not cutting back as much as everybody else.' But he also emphasized the need to spend more smartly.
http://capitolhillseattle.com
Comment by jseattle
October 17, 2010
Broadway Streetcar extension
I was unable to attend the Q&A session with the mayor. Did the extension of the Broadway Streetcar come up at all? If so, did the mayor give any indication of where he stands on it?

While I am no fan of Mayor McGinn, and am happy to say that I did not vote for him, I DO appreciate his support for transit and non-auto alternatives in Seattle. We just need to accept that mass transit is part of being the "world class city" we purport to be.
Comment by seattlekps
October 18, 2010
RE: Broadway Streetcar extension
Most likely the MOST important question of the day - with all due respect, the future of C. Hill and Bwy. are tied to more transit in a most positive way.

No one asked? How very quaint.

And the role the city will play is big time.
Comment by Mike with curls
October 19, 2010