North City reorganization generates high interest in the neighborhood
Thursday, October 9, 2014
45 people showed up on Tuesday, September 23 at the North City Water District conference room to talk about revitalizing the North City Neighborhood Association.
Attendees identified topics for future meetings, including:
- learning more about 185th Station Area Planning/Zoning,
- connecting with Police on crime prevention,
- community emergency preparedness,
- community building activities/ events,
- traffic/ speeding, economic development
- supporting a sense of place/ personality in North City.
Some people volunteered to create a North City Leadership Group to follow up on ideas, advocate for the neighborhood, and capitalize on the momentum started on Tuesday to get a Neighborhood Association re-established.
They plan to meet on Tuesday, October 14 at 7 pm at Anderson House, 17201 15th Ave NE. Any North City resident is welcome to join the leadership group or attend their meetings.
The next North City Neighborhood meeting will be held on Tuesday, November 4 from 7 pm – 8:30pm at the North City Water District, 1519 NE 177th St.
Topics to be discussed: speakers to "catch us up" on 185th Station Area Planning (including future rezoning) and Crime Prevention with Shoreline Police.
Many people mentioned wanting more information about possible zoning changes near 185th Light Rail Station. On Monday 9/29, the City Council and Planning Commission had a joint meeting to discuss the idea of phasing future zoning changes around the 185th Station. The council was split on this issue and no decision was made at the meeting. Background information on this topic.
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4 comments:
I think you forgot to mention that much of the "high interest' is in neighborhood _preservation_ in light of the city council's desire to turn North City into a high density metropolis, so the rest of Shoreline has better places to go out for dinner.
The City Vision 2029 needs to be scrapped. Once you peel the layers away and take a closer look at what's at stake for *current* residents of the 185th and 145th boundaries, it's rotten to the core. Who wants to live in a 'transitioning' neighborhood? The light rail line, station, and parking will be enough of a disruption... who wants to live with the extra construction noise for redevelopment (at the whim of market forces and individual homeowner decisions) on top of that? This so called phasing is still way too expanse of an area and too drastic of a change for potential redevelopment.
We're becoming Lynnwood. Ugh.
Love the "catch us up" mention in NC's news release above. It certainly isn't "condescending" to any of us who are just now becoming aware of the MASSIVE proposed rezoning changes. Way to unite a neighborhood, you!
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