On Friday, November 9, the City Council adopted a series of changes to the proposed 2013-2014 budgets submitted by the Mayor. The Council unanimously approved an amendment I sponsored that adds $500,000 each year to City funding for the Green Seattle Partnership, which mobilizes volunteers to maintain the health of our urban forests. Seattle’s urban [...]
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November 20, 2012January 6, 2023News Releases
2013 2014 Budgets Approved by Council
On Monday, November 19, the City Council unanimously adopted the 2013 City of Seattle budget, and endorsed the 2014 budget (the City prepares budgets on a two-year cycle, but the legal ‘adoption’ of the budget has to be done annually, so the 2014 budget will be reviewed, amended, and finally adopted in November of 2013.) [...]
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November 13, 2012January 6, 2023News Releases
Golf, Jefferson Park, and Social Justice
The City Council has unanimously approved a proposed modernization of the Jefferson Park golf clubhouse and expansion of the driving range. The proposal will replace the existing clubhouse with a new and expanded facility, and will also expand the driving range by adding a second deck and corresponding netting, along with revamping the lighting system [...]
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November 8, 2012January 6, 2023News Releases
South Lake Union Rezone Public Hearing
My Planning, Land Use, and Sustainability (PLUS) Committee will hold our second public hearing on the proposed South Lake Union Rezone on Wednesday, November 14, at 5:30 PM in the Council Chambers. We held an initial hearing in August, and have discussed the proposed rezone several times in Committee. The legislation is now in final [...]
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October 30, 2012January 6, 2023News Releases
Community Power Works Getting the Work Done
The City’s Community Power Works program, funded out of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA – the ‘economic stimulus’ legislation of 2009) received some critical reviews for starting up more slowly than the original plan. It did turn out to be challenging to ramp up as quickly as had been hoped, but the good [...]
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October 25, 2012January 6, 2023News Releases
Reforming Seattle Police Practices
Since the Department of Justice announced that its investigation of the Seattle Police Department had identified a pattern of excessive use of force, the City has been struggling to find our way forward. Our task is to continue to protect and promote public safety while eliminating abusive tactics that are contrary to both our community’s [...]
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October 24, 2012January 6, 2023News Releases
Regional Food Policy Council Second Year Accomplishments
The Regional Food Policy Council (RFPC) is housed at the Puget Sound Regional Council (PSRC), the principal regional planning entity covering King, Snohomish, Pierce, and Kitsap Counties. I led the effort to create the RFPC, and now serve as its Chair. The RFPC first met in September 2010, and we have now completed our second [...]
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October 18, 2012January 6, 2023News Releases
A Light Rail Community at the Capitol Hill Station
Linking transportation choices and land use decisions is the best way to make our communities work and our investments in transportation infrastructure pay off. And it is how we make growth management effective and protect our farms, forests, and wilderness areas. The Capitol Hill light rail station offers an extraordinary opportunity to realize that vision, [...]
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October 16, 2012January 6, 2023News Releases
Belltown Community Center Finally
On a cheerful, sunny Friday evening this September, the Belltown Community Center opened its doors at 415 Bell Street. It was great to see several hundred residents touring the rooms, enjoying music in the alley behind the Center and food donated by Belltown restaurants, and finally feeling the love of City government for one [...]
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October 9, 2012January 6, 2023News Releases
TDR for TIF Means Saving Farm Land and Livable Communities
As the City Council considers the comprehensive rezone legislation for South Lake Union (SLU), it will also take up legislation that will authorize and implement the ‘TDR for TIF’ program –‘Transfer of Development Rights for Tax Increment Financing’. That arcane phrase describes a way to implement growth management by protecting rural land and investing in [...]