On Monday, April 2, the Council unanimously approved rezones in the North Beacon Hill and Othello Residential Urban Villages. These rezones are designed to take the next stage in implementing the neighborhood and station area plans for those neighborhoods, by creating the zoning needed to promote additional development around the station. The North Beacon Hill [...]
Month: April 2012
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April 3, 2012January 6, 2023City Clerk
Seattle Municipal Archives Find of the Month: Working Wives during the Great Depression
High unemployment during the Great Depression led to scrutiny of families with more than one wage earner, particularly if one of those employed was a woman. A 1930 letter to a local newspaper complained that the wife of a fireman of the writer’s acquaintance “works in a store and lets two children run wild. The [...]
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April 2, 2012January 6, 2023Councilmember Licata
Legislative Wins for Art & Film
Two bills I traveled to Olympia to testify in support of have been signed by the Governor. Each will benefit Seattle's arts and culture economy.
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April 2, 2012January 6, 2023City Clerk
Action Summary, Monday, 4/02/12
The following is a summation of Council actions at today’s 2:00 p.m. Full Council meeting. Councilmember Tom Rasmussen excused. FULL COUNCIL: 1. Clerk File 312198 FILED (8 – 0) 2011 Annual Report of the Office of the Hearing Examiner. ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE: 2. Council Bill 117433 PASSED (8 – 0) Relating to...
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April 2, 2012January 6, 2023City Clerk
Archives Feature: Earth Day
Earth Day is celebrated globally on April 22 to shine a spotlight on environmental issues with education and action. Attitudes about recycling, composting, and solid waste have changed significantly since the first Earth Day in 1970. Landfills were a primary means of disposal of solid waste in Seattle through the mid-1980s. The University Dump, now [...]
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April 2, 2012January 6, 2023City Clerk
Seattle Municipal Archives Photo of the Month
Opening of Lincoln Park Swimming Pool, July 27, 1925 This pool was dug out of dirt with a retaining wall of rocks along the sides. It filled with salt water from Puget Sound. A muddy bottom and control valves that did not always contain the water eventually required a pool made of concrete and tile. [...]
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April 2, 2012January 6, 2023Councilmember Burgess
Goldman Sachs Bails After Investments in Human Trafficking Exposed
Read Nicholas Kristof in Sunday's New York Times. It turns out Goldman Sachs was an investor in Village Voice Media, owners of Backpage.com, perhaps the leading human trafficking Web site in the United States. They specialize in providing a forum...
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April 2, 2012January 6, 2023Councilmember Burgess, News Releases
Seattle City Council moves to strengthen Seattle’s life sciences industry
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The City Council today will introduce legislation (Council Bill 117438) to waive the City’s business and occupation tax on government research and development funding of Seattle companies and nonprofit organizations in the growing life sciences sector.
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April 2, 2012January 6, 2023Councilmember Godden, Councilmember Harrell, News Releases
Seattle City Councilmembers Clark, Godden and Harrell to appear on April’s City Inside/Out: Council Edition
News Release:
What is the latest with the Department of Justice’s investigation of the Seattle Police Department? How will policing change in the City? What role will the Council play in Seattle Center’s Next Fifty anniversary celebration? Can residents be involved in this year’s budget process? Whatever your questions, submit them now.
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April 2, 2012January 6, 2023Councilmember Rasmussen
Do You have Questions Concerning the Upcoming Changes and Impacts in Pioneer Square?
Join us at Milepost 31 to learn more about upcoming changes and impacts to parking to Pioneer Square . State and City outreach staff will be on hand to answer questions about significant traffic changes that will affect Alaskan Way and the roadway under the viaduct in May 2012. Dates: April 11th (7 a.m. to [...]