—City of Seattle and Neighborhood Advisory Committees to host workshops in the Broadview – Bitter Lake – Haller Lake and Rainier Beach neighborhoods
This March, the communities of Broadview – Bitter Lake – Haller Lake and Rainier Beach will start taking action on priorities for their neighborhoods. Two upcoming workshops will give the communities the chance to celebrate the completion of their neighborhood plan updates and begin the implementation of priorities to achieve the respective communities’ goals.
The community workshops are hosted by the Neighborhood Advisory Committees in partnership with the City of Seattle . The meetings are part of the second round of updating Seattle’s neighborhood plans: Broadview – Bitter Lake – Haller Lake Vision 2020 Neighborhood Plan, and the Rainier Beach 2014: A Plan for a Sustainable Future. Community members and City staff have worked together the past year and a half to update goals, policies and strategies for the two neighborhood plans. Throughout the process, community ideas have driven the direction of these updates including the priorities below.
Priorities for Broadview-Bitter Lake-Haller Lake include:
- Create a Linden Avenue N Village Center: that is a vibrant neighborhood and where neighbors come together to shop, dine, and play.
- Transform Aurora Avenue N: to be a great business district and a safe place to walk, take transit and drive.
- Build Community: that is identifiable, interconnected and resilient by strengthening organizations and neighborhood activities.
- Improve Safe Walking and Biking: along a network of major streets that connect people and places, and promote a sense of place and a healthy environment.
Rainier Beach’s priorities include:
- Life Long Learning: An innovative, connected learning system that is strategically integrated into the neighborhood’s cultural life.
- A Place for Everyone: Rainier Beach residents, long-term and new, will all have access to safe, healthy and affordable housing; access to transit; and a variety of vibrant commercial centers.
- Growing Food to Develop Healthy Industry: Rainier Beach is an employment center for the agricultural products grown in the valley. Rainier Beach has a unique opportunity to combine its urban farms and light industrial zone to become a hub of food and agricultural production.
- Rainier Beach is a Beautiful, Safe Place: Strengthening the neighborhood through increased public activity. Once we are all out in the neighborhood together, we have the opportunity to get to know each other, the more we know our neighbors, the safer we will be.
The community workshops will be held:
Broadview – Bitter Lake – Haller Lake
Tuesday, March 13
Doors open at 6:00 p.m.
Short presentations from special guests will begin at 6:30 p.m.
followed by small working groups meeting from 7:00 – 8:30 p.m.
(Attend for all or part of the time.)
Broadview-Thomson K-8 School
13052 Greenwood Ave. N.
Rainier Beach
Wednesday, March 14
Doors open at 6:00 p.m.
Short presentations from special guests will begin at 6:30 p.m.
followed by small working groups meeting from 7:00 – 8:30 p.m.
(Attend for all or part of the time.)
South Shore K-8 School
4800 S. Henderson Street
Neighborhood Advisory Committees (NAC), consisting of community members who are passionate about their community and understand the importance of engaging others in this work, provided a community perspective on the plan update. The City used a number of outreach and engagement strategies including the innovative approach of connecting with historically under-represented communities by means of Planning Outreach Liaisons (POLs). Under the direction of the Department of Neighborhoods, in partnership with the Department of Planning and Development, bicultural and/or bilingual POLs serve as a vital component of the Neighborhood Plan Outreach effort.
For more information about the Neighborhood Plan Update, please visit the Department of Planning and Development website at www.seattle.gov/dpd/Planning/Neighborhood_Planning/Overview/.
You may also join us on facebook at www.facebook.com/SeattleNeighborhoodPlanning.
To request interpretation, ADA accommodations, or to sign up for childcare, please contact:
Sebhat Tenna
(206) 733-9977
sebhat.tenna@seattle.gov