April 30th, 2008
I walked around the California Junction with a few concerned residents of Semi-Autonomous West Seattle yesterday. Sue Scharff organized the tour of Master Use Project notice boards, fenced off building sites, and construction cranes. There's definitely more going up in the area than West Seattle's business districts have seen in a couple
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Posted: April 30th, 2008 under
Neighborhoods,
Planning and Land Use.
April 21st, 2008
Up until Saturday at 7:30 a.m. I didn't think I was going to make any of the Neighborhood Plan Updates forum I co-sponsored with the City Neighborhood Council. We crossed communication wires when we moved the date of the forum a while back, and I was scheduled for crew races Saturday morning.
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Posted: April 21st, 2008 under
Neighborhoods.
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Neighborhoods
April 21st, 2008
Patricia McInturff, the City's director of the Human Services Department for the past five years, officially retired last Wednesday. Alan Painter is the interim director and Sara Levin the interim deputy director. They are both fantastic, but Patricia's expertise, patience, humor will be missed so much. I'm not sure the impact of
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April 20th, 2008
This morning councilmembers received a briefing from Department of Finance staff on the projections for employment, housing stats, foreclosures, real estate activity and all the other economic indicators that go into predicting revenue to the City over the next few years. On the good side, Boeing has a healthy backlog of orders,
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Posted: April 20th, 2008 under
Budget and Economic Development.
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Budget
April 10th, 2008
If I don't have my City Official hat on, I wish everyone would have left Squirrelman alone - most of all, the person who "turned in" his home up in the tree in Eastlake. Neighbors report he took care of the neighborhood, kept the area clean and was a good neighbor. I
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April 3rd, 2008
Yesterday was bookended by what I thought were two great policy events. Bags and boxes... First, I joined Council President Richard Conlin, Councilmember Tim Burgess and Mayor Greg Nickels for the announcement of Seattle's new tax on plastic grocery bags and ban on styrofoam food containers. These are ideas we've been developing
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