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Time to start narrowing down these 134+ ideas for improving District 3 streets and parks

134 new ideas were submitted in District 3. You can view details of each submission on the Your Voice, Your Choice project map

Citizens across Seattle submitted more than 1,000 pretty good ideas — and probably three or four dumbs ones — in this year’s first phase of the Your Voice, Your Choice neighborhood grant process to divvy up around $3 million for street and parks improvement projects.

134 of those brilliant ideas came from Seattle’s District 3 stretching across Capitol Hill, the Central District, Montlake, and Madison Park. The effort to winnow those ideas down to manageable few begins Tuesday night with a project development meeting for ideas submitted in D3’s northern region from 5:30 to 7:30 PM at the Montlake library:

Each Project Development meeting will focus on one project list, a list of project ideas from the neighborhoods immediately surrounding the meeting location. If you can’t come to the Project Development meeting in your neighborhood, you can attend another meeting in your Council District and review the project list of your choice at that meeting.

At Tuesday’s meeting the group will tackle suggestions like these:

  • Install high visibility lighting infrastructure at crosswalk spanning intersection of E Aloha St. and 23rd Avenue E
  • Crossing Improvements at 19th Ave E. and E. Harrison Street
  • Improve accessibility to Volunteer Park entrance

“To improve bike access to Volunteer Park,” the person who suggests the Volunteer Park entrance improvements writes, “I propose that 12th Ave E between E Aloha St and E Prospect St be repaved. Both 12th Ave and Aloha are bicycle arterials with pavement in good condition, making this block of 12th the most cost-effective candidate to address this need.”

The submission is pretty good example of the kinds of simple things people are looking for from the process — about three out of four appear to be related to street crossings and intersections. You can review all of the early submissions on this map.

The rest of the D3 regions including discussions of projects in the core of Capitol Hill will be covered at subsequent development meetings:

  • March 1, 6 – 8pm
    Seattle Central College, BE Bldg, Room BE4104 – 1701 Broadway
  • March 19, 5:30 – 7:30pm
    2100 Building, Community Room A – 2100 24th Ave S
  • March 20, 5:30 – 7:30pm
    Langston Hughes Performing Arts – 104 17th Ave S

In addition to the more than 1,000 new ideas submitted in 2018, the community development meetings will also be evaluating 395 ideas rolled over from last year.

In 2017, a similar process resulted in this set of four projects around District 3:

  • Capitol Hill: Crossing Improvements at I-5 Exit on to Olive Way (Cost: $75,000, Total Votes: 240)
  • Central District: Traffic Calming on 17th Ave S between E Yesler Way & S Jackson St (Cost: $15,000, Total Votes: 200)
  • Judkins Park: Improved Connections to Judkins Park from S. Dearborn St (Cost: $90,000, Total Votes: 173)
  • Capitol Hill: Crossing Improvements at 19th Ave E & E Denny Way (Cost: $83,000, Total Votes:  171) 

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

After the hundreds of proposals are collected, Project Development Teams in each district will “turn ideas into concrete project proposals,” the city says. Over summer, the final proposals for each district will be put up for a vote. Each of the city’s seven district will be eligible for up to $430,000 in projects.

 

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GregoryH
GregoryH
6 years ago

Is there a way to weigh in if you can’t make it to the in person meetings?

jseattle
Admin
6 years ago
Reply to  GregoryH

I’ll ask

Matt
Matt
6 years ago

Nothing about building more housing and banning street parking?