The big orange square on the CHS map is the Fancy Pants neighborhood.

St. Mark’s is the yellow swath in the northwest corner of our CHS map.

Legally, cars can only be parked in one place for 72 hours http://www.seattle.gov/transportation/parking/parking72hour.).  Overall, I believe Parking Enforcement does a pretty good job at ticketing vehicles that block sidewalks but they do a poor job of enforcing the 72 hour rule.  I know that residents can prompt Enforcement to stop by and ticket (then possibly remove) a car that has been parked too long, and I must admit that my husband and I have been lucky that no one has yet to do that to our car. 

See, our car will be taken to the shop tomorrow morning for repairs but for the last 5 weeks, it’s been sitting immobile outside of our apartment building.  I’ve watched from my window as Parking Enforcement putters by and ticket cars parked on either side of ours for violating the Zone 4 two hour limit.  I’ve seen the little carts drive by every day and today, watched one park in front of our car and eat his lunch for 20 minutes, the same Enforcement officer, oblivious to this “dead” car that hasn’t moved in over 30 days.

Yesterday, someone even placed an advertisement under our windshield wiper, offering to buy our car for salvage. *shakes head*  Apparently someone is scoping the neighborhood looking for junk cars and happened to see ours.

Are we bad residents for leaving our car parked for so long on the street?  Undeniably.  Parking is scarce on the hill.  If we had received a ticket for violating the parking regulations, we would have been prompted to deal with the car much quicker.

What do you think of Parking Enforcement on the hill?  Too harsh?  Too lax?

To celebrate their reopening on Wednesday June 18, Madison Market Cafe is offering Free Coffee and a Pastry Tomorrow. I doubt the Mighty-O Donuts are available though.

We’re doing a quick ‘show of hands’ to see what CHS readers think about the jet art proposed for the Capitol Hill light rail station. Let us know where you stand in the CHS light rail jet art survey. Survey closes Wednesday June 18th at 8p. You can see the summary of results here while the survey runs.

What happens when a CHS contributor is camera shy? I try to do my best impersonation of somebody who knows what he is talking about. Only slightly painful to watch. (Thanks to caphilljed for the original post and for the video link)

Giving away free advertising is making this site look like a NASCAR racecar gone bad. Graphic design types — We need your help. Please leave your contact info in the comments if you are interested in helping local businesses produce fantastic advertisements for CHS and beyond. Keep in mind that a lot of our advertisers are (very!) small businesses so keep your rates reasonable.

Placeblogs are fragile beasts. Focused on limited geography, they require endless creativity (as you have surely noticed reading CHS) and time to create for the sake of creating. Because of this fragility, it’s important to show your support for placeblogs you like.

We like cap to the hill because it brings a big chunk of Capitol Hill culture to life on the Internet — a big chunk of hipster nightlife cool kidism. Unfortunately, we’ve only seen two posts from c to the h in June and fear it may soon fade into placeblog oblivion. So, let’s do the Tinker Bell thing and shout we believe in cool kid placeblogs! Or something like that. A good placeblog is precious. Don’t let it die.

In case you missed the news, I recently became Capitol Hill Community President. I want to share the secret of my success so you, too, neighbor, may achieve your goals.

Ladies and gentleman, I give you the Stanley Sharpshooter (Light-Duty model). It brought out the vote at the CHCC election and it can bring out the people for you. Please staple responsiblity, don’t cover other flyers, remove your old messages and, please, never tape.

BTW, the first CHCC meeting with the newly elected officers is Thursday, June 26th at 7p in Seattle Central Community College lecture room 3211.