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July 11, 2012January 6, 2023News Releases
Planning for Seattle’s East Link Station
University Link is under construction between downtown and Husky Stadium. The line from there to Northgate is going into final design and engineering. And Seattle is also getting a new light rail station on the East Link between downtown and Redmond. East Link has already been approved by the Sound Transit Board, although there are [...]
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July 6, 2012January 6, 2023News Releases
Mid-point check-in
Somehow we got into July and I’m not sure how that happened. At the top of this year the Council went through our annual agenda priorities exercise which yielded this 2012 Action Agenda and I thought, “Great. We finished this relatively quickly at the start of the year. Now we have the year ahead of [...]
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June 28, 2012January 6, 2023News Releases
Northgate Light Rail Station Access Plan
Today, Thursday, June 28, the Sound Transit Board unanimously approved my motion to create a new access strategy for the Northgate light rail station. This motion is the first effort to implement the new Sound Transit Board’s policy direction that emphasizes developing a variety of access modes to get riders to Sound Transit stations. It [...]
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June 22, 2012January 6, 2023Councilmember Licata
Neighbors Win Pedestrian Improvements
Sometimes we forget to celebrate the small victories.
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June 15, 2012January 6, 2023Councilmember Burgess
San Diego Padres and the Northgate Parking Garage
I made a quick trip to San Diego on June 4 to see how they had successfully wrapped a residential neighborhood, the city's historic Gaslamp district, the nearby convention center and a working port and rail yard around Petco Park,...
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June 6, 2012January 6, 2023Councilmember Rasmussen
City Inside/Out: Council Edition June 2012 6/5/2012
Councilmember Tom Rasmussen visited the Seattle Channel studio for the June episode of Council Edition.
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May 24, 2012January 6, 2023News Releases
Sound Transit TOD and Parking Policies
As I noted in an earlier post, the Sound Transit Board held a retreat in April, primarily to discuss parking policies and valuing transit oriented development (TOD). My goal was to change Sound Transit’s perspective on these issues, and to get the Board to agree to revise long-standing policies that encouraged Sound Transit (ST) to [...]
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May 22, 2012January 6, 2023News Releases
Seawall Funding Plan Moving Forward
The City Council has begun the process for placing a 30-year property tax bond measure on the November ballot to complete the financing package for the Seawall replacement and strengthening. The Council must make a decision by July in order to place this measure on the ballot. The City has been working for almost ten [...]
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May 17, 2012January 6, 2023News Releases
Updating the Comprehensive Plan
On Monday, May 14, the Council adopted a resolution describing how we will carry out the second ever update of the Seattle Comprehensive Plan. The Plan was first adopted in 1994, and then updated in 2004. The next update is scheduled for 2015, and will respond to lots of changes in the City (for example, [...]