This big oak toppled over the weekend along Federal Ave E. Fortunately, nobody at Broadway Hill Park was reported injured. Thanks to @whocanstandit for the report
Here is the news from Capitol Hill and the nearby you may have missed during the holiday week.
- Capitol Hill shooting: A 28-year-old was shot in the back early Saturday in a dispute involving multiple guns and assailants in a Pike/Pine parking lot as last call crowds filed out of nearby venues.
- Recall: CHS looked at the District 3 maps from November’s election and found that the E Republican line held again. Will it hold in the December 7th recall? Meanwhile, faith and spirituality communities are the latest to enter the fray in the fight to recall Kshama Sawant.
- Design review reform? Expect a new push to streamline and reform the city’s public design review process in 2022.
- City Connector: With money allocated to continue planning work next year, the route to connect the First Hill Streetcar to the South Lake Union line is still alive.
- Also in the $7.1B 2022 budget: With a focus on “Housing, Homeless Services, Healthy & Safe Communities,” the City Council has wrapped up Seattle’s 2022 budget.
- Hill small biz: The Capitol Hill Chamber of Commerce went out of business. The Capitol Hill Business Alliance is doing what it can to help.
- World AIDS Day: Wednesday’s World AIDS Day will mark 40 years since the first cases were identified. Gay City is marking the event with a commemoration at Capitol Hill’s AMP Plaza.
- Broadway closures: Starting Tuesday, Broadway between Pike and Pine will be closed “to standard vehicular traffic” from 7 AM to 4 PM on Mondays through Fridays. “Buses, Streetcar, and bike traffic” will be able to pass through and the east-side sidewalk will be open to pedestrians. The closures are part of ongoing construction and utility work for Pride Place, a preservation-boosted, eight-story affordable housing development dedicated to serving lesbian, gay, bisexual and queer seniors. Police will be stationed at the intersections “to safely detour traffic and allow local traffic through to businesses.” Meanwhile, construction to transform Madison with block by block closures over the next three years for a new RapidRide bus route will continue with closures and detours around 15th and 16th Avenues.
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