D3, bringing up the rear

Seattle has turned to its citizens to decide how $2,000,000 in street and parks projects should be divvied up around the city — and District 3, your district, has been relatively quiet.

You have another day to change that. Your deadline is Sunday, February 26th.

Of the more than 600 ideas submitted this month for sidewalk repairs, new crossings, speed humps, curb bulbs, park benches and tables, traffic circles, and sidewalk designs in the Your Voice, Your Choice Parks & Streets process, District 3 representing Capitol Hill, First Hill, Montlake, Madison Valley and Madison Park, part of Eastlake, and the Central District was bringing up the rear with around 8.3% of the submissions as of Saturday morning. You can see the latest overall tallies here.

The process to collect proposals ends Sunday. Your ideas should adhere to three simple values. Your proposed District 3 projects should:

• Benefit the public
• Add a physical or capital improvement project in Seattle’s parks or streets
• Not exceed a budget of $90,000

Add your proposal here

After the hundreds of proposals are collected, Project Development Teams in each district will “turn ideas into concrete project proposals,” the city says. In June, the final proposals for each district will be put up for a vote. Voting will take place on “multiple days, locations, and formats, which may include schools, community centers, and digital/online voting.”

Each of the city’s seven district will be eligible for up to $285,000 in projects.

City departments will include the winning proposals in their next annual budgets with plans to implement the projects in 2018.