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What location do you prefer for the Pinehurst Community meetings?

There is a poll up on the Pinehurst Community Blog to find out what folks think of where we hold our community meetings. We will be scheduling our next meeting to be held in late April or early May. Help us decide where we should meet. What location do you prefer for the Pinehurst Community meetings?

Amante Pizza
St. Matthew’s Conference Room
Northgate Library Conference Room
Lake City Library Conference Room
Pinehurst Playfield Shelterhouse

Vote now. The poll closes on Friday, February 27th at 9 PM.

More on State House Bill 1490, “Reducing greenhouse gas emissions through land use and transportation requirements”

As mentioned in an earlier post, Seattle City Councilmember Sally Clark is holding community forum on proposed Washington State House Bill 1490, “Reducing greenhouse gas emissions through land use and transportation requirements”.

“Trains, Density & Change” is a community workshop to talk through the issues surrounding legislation in Olympia (HB 1490) dealing with Transit Oriented Development and affordable housing provisions in areas surrounding Light Rail stations.

The workshop is an opportunity to 1) give proponents and opponents of the legislation a chance to better explain their positions and goals, and 2) inform the public about what the legislation might mean for their neighborhoods.

Wednesday, February 18, 2009
6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center
104 17th Ave. S., Seattle, WA 98144

Format of the session will be:

Presentation (25 minutes)

– Stephen Antupit, Urban Land Institute
– Don Vehige, GGLO Architecture
– Bill LaBorde, Transportation Choices Coalition
– Rachel Meyers, Washington Low Income Housing Alliance
– John Fox, Seattle Displacement Coalition

Questions and comments from the public (1 hour)

If you’ve not been tracking this legislation and want to know what the current version of the Olympia bill contains, you can find a summary here.

This issue has been covered (the discussion gets pretty heated) in a number of on-line forums including: Sightline, the SLOG – here, here and here, Hugeasscity – here and here, and Rainer Valley Post.

Pinehurst Pet of the Week: Sexy Luigi and Spooky Elvira

Luigi and Elvira are the owners of my new friend, Cheryl. She says, “Luigi is a really sexy little guy and he knows it. He’s full of love and loves
to hang out on my window sill.” He also likes to play with Cheryl’s papers, and even chews them up sometimes.

Elvira, on the other hand, “is a spooky girl who absolutely loves vegetables,” especially cucumbers and broccoli and, of course her avocado box (but she doesn’t eat the avocados, they are bad for cats).

Cheryl recently joined a garden group that I have been a member of for many years. As we were getting to know each other, we discovered that she and her husband, Mark share a property line with my next-to-next-door-neighbors, David and Norah (owned by Mr. Fuzzy Pants). We have determined that my cat Jasper jumps over the fence from David and Norah’s yard and sleeps on Cheryl’s lawn furniture.

If you would like to see YOUR Pinehurst Pet featured here, please send me (Erica) a photo and tell me something about the animal(s) in your life. ehas2dogs@gmail.com

3/4 – NE 125th Sidewalk Meeting

There will be a community meeting for folks interested in the NE 125th sidewalk project:

Wednesday, March 4th
6 to 7:45 PM
Northgate Library conference room
10548 Fifth Ave NE

Questions? Jodi at wademcnaul@hotmail.com

Another good thing about the new Pinehurst Safeway

It will have a bigger and better wine selection.

Summer Cooking Camps for Kids at Kitchen Coach

Say that five time fast.

Deb Brownstein at The Kitchen Coach Cooking School just posted the summer cooking camp schedule. If you are interested, let Deb know. The camps fill up quickly.

I wrote about the camps a few weeks ago here.

2/18 – HB 1490: Transit-Oriented Communities

HB 1490 is proposed WA state legislation that would require increased density in areas around light rail stations and at certain bus rapid transit locations. The proposal is supported by the environmental advocacy group Futurewise and by low income housing advocates Housing Development Consortium and Washington Low Income Housing Alliance.

Supporters of the legislation believe that building compact, transit-oriented communities will create healthier, safer, affordable, and vibrant communities for Washington while reducing congestion, combating climate change and strengthening the economy.

You can view legislative history of the bill here.

A summary of the legislation prepared by Futurewise is available here.

Information prepared by Housing Development Consortium and Washington Low Income Housing Alliance is available here.

Seattle City Councilmember Sally Clark is holding a workshop on HB 1490 on February 18th:

Trains, Density & Change
A Workshop on HB 1490
Wednesday, February 18
6 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Langston Hughes Cultural Center Auditorium
(104 17th Ave. S., Seattle, WA 98144)

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Lake City shooting on Sunday

The Seattle Police Blotter has information on a shooting that occurred in Lake City on Sunday afternoon.

On February 7th, at approximately 2:25 P.M., North Precinct officers responded to a call of a shooting on NE 123rd Street, between 31st Avenue NE and 32 Avenue NE. The call stated that one victim had been shot in the leg. Officers arrived in the area and contacted the victim, a 35 year-old man, who had a non life-threatening injury to his leg. The victim was transported to the hospital for treatment. Officers contacted three males several blocks from the shooting scene who matched the description of the suspects. One of the suspects was postively identified as the shooter. The suspects were arrested and interviewed by detectives. One suspect, a 20 year-old male, was booked into the King County Jail for Investigation of Assault. The other suspects were interviewed and released. The investigation continues in this shooting incident.

Snow lite

Rick’s "Performance Art Theater" gets additional parking spaces

Seattle Department of Planning and Development announced today that it will allow reconfiguration of adjacent properties to allow establishment of 35 new parking spaces serving Rick’s “Performance Art Theater” in Lake City.

As part of the analysis, DPD determined that: “Because the proposal would not likely increase any existing use on the site, only redistribute cars from other parking areas, or legitimate ones already parking on the Rosellini property, no increased greenhouse gas generation is anticipated.”

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