Help plan Sunset School Park

View from Sunset Park

Saturday, March 16 10:00 to 11:30 a.m.

Sunset School Park Site

17800 10th Avenue NW

Meet at the covered play court at the northeast corner of the site

Parking is available along 10th Avenue

Join the City, Friends of Sunset Park and your neighbors to review the site conditions following the Shoreline School District’s demolition the Sunset Elementary School building this past January.

Sunset Elementary was demolished January 2013

This meeting will provide a list of potential improvements from the Master Site Plan that can be constructed with the limited available budget. The City wants to learn which master plan improvements are important to you as we prepare our design for the construction in this first phase of improvements. Community comments will be collected through comment forms and shared with the Parks, Recreation and Cultural Services (PRCS) Board at their April 25 board meet­ing. The PRCS Board will discuss the project and make a recommendation for Phase I Improvements.

In 2012, the School Board approved a resolution declaring that the Sunset site was not currently required for school purposes and authorized the temporary surplus of the property. In January, the City Council adopted the Sunset School site as an addendum to the Shoreline School District-City of Shoreline Joint Use Agreement to allow the City to maintain the site as a public park, while still being owned by the Shoreline School District.

Sunset Elementary closed in 2007 and the community, led by the Friends of Sunset Park, has worked for several years to bring their vision of a park on the site to reality. There is $205,000 in the City’s Capital Improvement Plan budget in 2013-14 to design and construct improvements from the Master Plan at the new park site.

Comment forms and more information about the project will be available starting March 18 and can be found here at that time or by contacting Parks Project Coordinator Maureen Colaizzi 206-801-2603.