Please pass on this opportunity for disaster skills training to your contacts – space is still available for this weekend’s Search & Rescue class (Sept 12 – registration closes Thursday, September 10, 2009 at 4:00 pm) and next weekend’s Disaster First Aid class (Sept 19 – registration closes Wednesday, September 16, 2009 at 4 pm).

General registration for 2009 Falls Skills Training continues now through December with limited space in some classes.  See attached flyer for full schedule and more information.

Training is provided at no cost to participants. Yes, classes are free, but you must be signed up to attend.

To pre-register for all classes:

E-mail [email protected]

Include your name, e-mail address, phone number, course(s), and date(s).

Don’t miss this opportunity!

Seattle Office of Emergency Management

Public Education Team

105 5^th Ave. South

Seattle, WA  98104

www.seattle.gov/emergency

“Disaster ready … prepared people, resilient community.”

(preamble: YES I did encourage you to submit your thoughts online, and YES, many of us did do so, but the City has relented and offered us an in-person make-up session, to make up for the very slim attendance at the earlier meetings. The City is promoting the meeting for the Central Area, which includes Madison-Miller, but will bring left-over handouts for the nearby areas: Capitol Hill, Pike-Pine, 12th Avenue. Should be a good chance to discuss ideas of joint interest.    BTW: note that after the meeting we can all retire to the nearby Bottleneck Lounge to celebrate their expansion and continue the discussion.)

Miller Community Center, 330 19th Ave. E 98112, 6 – 8 PM, Thursday, September 3rd.   Please join members of the Seattle Planning Commission and the Neighborhood Planning Advisory Committee on for an important community meeting.

These two citizen groups want to hear your thoughts. Come and tell us how the Central Area, Pike/Pine and Capitol Hill has changed since the creation of their Neighborhood Plans. Your comments and input at this meeting will help the City of Seattle complete a status report that will look at how well your neighborhood plan is achieving its goals and strategies.   More details, and links to plan documents are available here.

From Jonah on the Slog:

Less than three weeks after the city offered 18 drug dealers clemency the chance to get out of the drug trade, six of those dealers have been picked up by police and now face multiple charges in King County Superior Court.  (etc)

(From Meghan, my next-door neighbor. Andrew)

I wanted to let you know about an event I host every Tuesday at Denny Blaine Park through my recently formed yoga company, Roar Yoga. I hold an all-levels, donation-based vinyasa yoga class from 6:30pm-7:45 weekly through summer as long as the weather holds out. It’s a great way to enjoy the long-lasting summer sunshine and a good way to meet other folks in the (extended) neighborhood.

My website is www.roaryoga.com and I’m happy to answer any questions you might have about the event.

Roar Yoga™: Yoga That Comes to You℠

web: www.roaryoga.com

cell: 410-978-1828

If the weather isn’t cooperating, feel free to email [email protected] to check if event is still on.

About Roar Yoga: 

Roar Yoga is a Seattle-based company that offers unpretentious, accessible, and affordable on-site yoga for a variety of clients including workplaces, corporate events, athletes and teams, private individuals and groups, bridal parties, and more. We come to you–wherever, whenever–and we work with all levels, ranging from the total yoga newbie and/or yoga skeptic to the seasoned practitioner. Check out www.roaryoga.com for more info. Flexibility not required.

You’ve got till Wednesday August 12th to submit your views online! (I’ve attached what I submitted). Here’s a link to some background information. The official line:

The Seattle Planning Commission and Neighborhood Planning Advisory Committee want your feedback about the current status of your neighborhood plan and the changes that have taken place since the plan was adopted.

One neighbor notes:

The virtual meeting deal is picking up steam. The Planning commission got a big bunch from Ballard, and last count was over 450 citywide (compared to just under 300 at the actual meetings). What this means is that the City will have more to work with from the neighborhoods that speak up and may pay more attention to them. If you haven’t yet, fill out the questionnaire.

and another reports:

It’s an interesting set of materials and does not take that long to do. I watched the short presentation, and studied the summary document. I thought about what I think are positive developments in the last 10 years, what I think needs more attention as far as implementation of the plan or new things the plan might address, and what I thought of the materials. Then I filled out the survey, which is just a few simple questions with a huge amount of space for comment.

Recall that the Planning Commission held in-person meetings, but only 3 people from the Central District attended (conflict with Election Forum) and none from the Pike-Pine neighborhood. We asked for a joint “make-up” meeting of the Central Area, Capitol Hill and Pike-Pine neighborhoods. The City seems reluctant to commit to that, but will be having a meeting for the Central Area (on or before September 12th, location to be determined) and will welcome people from Capitol Hill & Pike-Pine. They note:

We will make available the maps and remaining draft status reports we have for Capitol Hill & Pike Pine should anyone attend from those areas.

The on-line survey is useful, but I think the conversations with neighbors from our (and adjoining) areas that will be  part of the in-person meeting will help us all focus our ideas. I’ll let you know when I hear more, and hope you’ll get the word out to Capitol Hill & Pike-Pine neighbors.

SEATTLE– What does ‘neighborhood character’ mean to you?    Why is it important and what is the role of architecture? Join AIA Seattle as our own local characters Steve Scher of KUOW’s “Weekday”, author Knute Berger, activist Kent Kammerer, and real estate maven Bob Melvey debate and discuss specific projects shaping the future of residential architecture in our region.  

 Joining them will be design and development professionals, Angela Brooks AIA, Pugh + Scarpa Architects, Larry Beasley, Former Director of Planning, City of Vancouver, BC, and Kevin Cavenaugh, Architect and Developer, Portland and Gil Kelley, Former Director of Portland Planning Bureau, Portland, who were also asked to determine which projects they thought worthy of celebration.   Invite your friends, your neighbors, (and for you architects, your clients!) for this timely discussion.  

 FUTURE SHACK:  Housing the 21st Century

Sunday, September 13, 2009

5pm – 7:30pm

Seattle Center, Fisher Pavilion, 305 Harrison Street, Seattle, WA‎

Cost:  $12 General Public/$5 Students & Seniors 

 FOR INFORMATION AND TO REGISTER ONLINE, VISIT:  www.aiaseattle.org/futureshack  

 View Online Gallery of FUTURE SHACK submitted projects here:   http://futureshack.aiaseattle.org/  

 A new residential architecture program for our times, FUTURE SHACK celebrates progressive solutions for urban living across a wide range of building types, budgets, constraints, and social agendas.  Architects from around the region have submitted projects to the program which will be selected separately by two juries – one comprised of outspoken members of the public and another comprised of design professionals.   FUTURE SHACK is developed in partnership with the SeattleTimes, which will publish selected projects in the September 13 issue of the Pacific Northwest Magazine.   

 FUTURE SHACK is held in conjunction with residential architect magazine’s Reinvention Symposium, in Seattle Sept 14-16. 

 FUTURE SHACK Co-Chairs are:  Rick Mohler AIA of Adams Mohler Ghillino Architects and Tom Maul of Hutchison Maul Architecture. 

Info from:

Stephanie Pure, phone: 206.448.4938 ext. 103

AIA Seattle , Director of Marketing and Communications

[email protected] 

www.aiaseattle.org

The Planning Commission wants to hear from you about the status of our neighborhood plans, and what’s happened since the plans were adopted in 1998. They had a meeting for the Central Area plan (and a few others) but it was last Monday and coincided with our election forum, and very few people turned up (3, I’m told!). We asking the City to put on a “make-up session” for the Central Area, Capitol Hill, 12th Avenue and Pike-Pine neighborhoods, which may happen in the next week or two (E-mail Barbara E. Wilson, Planning Commision Director, [email protected], to help make that happen).

In the meantime, you can take part in a “Virtual Meeting”, by going to http://www.cityofseattle.net/planningcommission/, where you can watch a video introduction, read the draft status reports for your neighborhood, and then answer the same questions that the participants in the actual live sessions answered. You’ve got till Wednesday, August 12th to do so.

Below are links to some background information, and the official explanation of the process, from the August 2009 Department of Planning and Development newsletter.

Background information:

• Neighborhood Planning Overview
• Public Involvement process
• 1998 Central Area Plan
• The Pike-Pine Plan
• The Capitol Hill Plan
• The Madison-Miller plan (part of the Central Area Plan)
• Recent information about Madison Street redevelopment plans

Please take a few minutes to read up on what’s happening in our neighborhoods, and tell the City your thoughts. Now here’s the City explanation:

 

From the August 2009 Department of Planning and Development newsletter :

(editors note: we’ll be liveblogging this here on the site and on twitter with hashtag #cdchs)

In brief: Candidates for “our” School Board position and all the candidates for City Council and Mayor will attend. 

Candidates will  give a brief introduction, be asked audience questions “drawn from the hat”, and in a final “lightning round” asked brief  question about our community (written 1 or 2 word answers) . You’ll be able to grab candidates before/afterwards and ask them your burning question.

To submit Lightning Round questions, go to:    http://tinyurl.com/lightning-round

When: Monday July 27th, 6 – 9 PM

Location: Mount Zion Baptist Church, 1634 – 19th Avenue (on 19^th Ave. & Madison). Ample parking.  Buses: 11 and 12 go right past, buses 8, 10, 43, 48 within a few blocks. Enter from the Madison Street / 20th Ave parking lot: door in the corner.

There’s more: candidates, Seattle Disposable Shopping Bag Referendum (pro/con), community groups will staff information tables.

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See the attached flyers for details. Please print/distribute flyers to neighbors.

Volunteers to help run the event are needed: E-mail Andrew Taylor ([email protected]) or turn up at Mt .Zion anytime after 5:15.

Schedule: 6:00 Start: 5 minutes Welcome (Pastor), 5 minutes intro etc.
1) 6:10 School Board position 5: Cullen, Helmstetter, Bass, Smith-Blum
2) 6:35 Council position 2: Conlin, (Ginsberg can’t attend)
3) 6:50 Council position 6: Kaplan, Licata, Israel
4) 7:10 Council position 4: Bagshaw, Tobin, Carver, Plants, Bloom
5) 7:35: Council position 8: O’Brien, Williams, Forch, Miller, Royer, Rosencrantz
6) 8:05 Mayor: McGinn, Donaldson, Nickels, Mallahan, Garrett, Drago, Campbell, Sigler
7) 9:00. Thanks. Disband.

Questions: people are given color-coded postcards to write questions as they arrive: one card per race per person. Questions are 12 words or fewer. Questions go into separate boxes for each race. The moderator draws and reads each question: probably 3 questions per race.

Candidates will be seated and speak in the order that they will appear on the King County ballot (http://tinyurl.com/lmswx3).

Event is co-sponsored by many neighborhood groups (see flyer for details) and underwritten by CHS Capitol Hill Seattle.

 

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