The Mayor is scheduled to visit Wallingford in the near future for a Find It, Fix It Community Walk (exact date TBD). In preparation for the walk, the city is asking residents of Wallingford to identify places in the neighborhood that need “fixing.”
In 2014, Mayor Ed Murray initiated the Find It, Fix It Community Walks, a series of Mayor-led walks that aim to improve neighborhoods one block at a time. The walks provide an opportunity for community members to talk directly with Mayor Murray and other City department directors about issues in their neighborhoods. Community concerns include safe routes to school, public safety in parks, and many more. After the walks, the community and the City work together to find solutions for these issues.
Community Walks have been held throughout the city, resulting in hundreds of infrastructure improvements – from new trash and recycle bins to upgraded street lights. If you would like to submit suggestions, please click on this link and complete the survey form. The survey form should be sent via email to Lemmis Stephens III at [email protected] by Friday, February 17th.
There will be a Community Walk Action Team (CWAT) meeting Thursday, February 16, 2016 from 6:30-7:30pm at the Wallingford Center in Suite 206, between Bootyland & Bad Woman Yarn. The CWAT will be a group of Wallingford community members, non-profit leaders, and business owners who are dedicated to helping plan the Wallingford Find It, Fix It Community Walk in the next few months. At the first meeting on the 16th, we will ask attendees to voice neighborhood concerns especially related to public safety and we will discuss more about the background of the Find It, Fix It Walks, CWAT responsibilities, and what the preparation for the walk will look like.
The CWAT meeting is open to the public, but due to limited space an RSVP is requested (the City can plan a second meeting if the RSVPs exceed the meeting space). If you plan on attending, please RSVP to Lemmis Stephens III at [email protected] by February 14, 2017.
In addition, there is a $5,000 grant opportunity for community-led neighborhood improvement projects in Wallingford. Community Project Grant Applications will be available online at www.seattle.gov/finditfixit and at the walk and will be open at least one week before and one week after the walk.
If you have any questions about the specifics of the walk, please direct them to the program coordinator: Lemmis Stephens III: [email protected]. For more information on the walk or the grant, please see the website link here.
How about making the one way portion of Woodlawn Ave N at Lincoln more obvious and better enforced? I am absolutely sick of people speeding down our street the wrong way. It’s obvious that most know what they’re doing and don’t care.
Of course the intersection of 50th/Stone Way/Greenlake Way
Voted last year as the WORST intersection in the city
Wouldn’t argue with that so far, but you have to be ready with a fix – if you leave it to them, they’ll just make it worse. Don’t ask me, I have no ideas.
sadly a very apt response! A few extra dotted lines/and/or bike lanes and yield signs might make a difference. A pedestrian bridge could be helpful.
They have made the intersection much better for cyclists already.
Then their work isn’t done.
It can never be “done”, if you are thinking about having an intersection that’s great for everyone. At this point is mostly about trade-offs as opposed to having some solution that’s just gonna make it better. Maybe we can sacrifice the park? Sacrifice car traffic of certain directions? Sacrifice bikes? Sacrifice pedestrians?
I think it could be much improved. Implement an adaptive traffic signal:
http://www.seattle.gov/transportation/docs/tmp/briefingbook/SEATTLE%20TMP%207%20BP%20-%20k%20-%20Adapt%20Traffic.pdf
And see this article on Wallyhood for adapting flow patterns:
http://www.wallyhood.org/2015/10/improving-green-lake-way-at-50th-for-vehicles-and-cyclists/#gsc.tab=0
How about increasing the size of the Wallingford Library? How about really getting the burned out restaurant by Molly Moons to be torn down?.
Absolutely! I hate to even walk past the place for fear of what may be lurking there. I will complete the survey form and I ask others to do the same
YES! Bigger library!!
Agree absolutely. We need a larger Wallingford library for the size of our community. How can we make this happen? Where could it move to if it can move? Build it next to Molly Moons where the burned out house is now?
Ok, I have free time… how about in the empty space in those ‘new’ apartments on 43rd & Stone Way N? Or in a space in the ‘overflow” building of Seattle Schools– the old Lincoln high school which houses Lowell now / How about in th eold Kitaro space? how about in Good Shepherd space?
I don’t suppose the increasing parking nightmare would count? He could consider the validity of the thousands of complaints about lack of parking requirements in his “grand bargain”.
That’s supposed to be a solution, not a problem. (Lack of) off site parking requirements are supposed to “further this Plan’s goal to increase the use of public transit, car pools, walking, and bicycles as alternatives to the use of single-occupant vehicles.” (2035 Comprehensive Plan, LU 6.1) The more complaints, the better, I guess. Elections this year.
Parking issue can be eased by increasing the price. Many places in the city that was very hard to park are not as hard now, ever since they started putting in more meters.
Is that your Affordability Idea of the Day?
It’s resource sharing idea. Parking is a very limited resource. It took up space, which is of higher and higher value in Wallingford. So let’s use higher parking fee and shorter time limits to ensure higher utilization. It’s not my idea. It’s something already implemented around Seattle and worked well. You can look around the world and see how other cities do it.
Be honest, TJ. You like the idea of parking becoming a higher and higher value here and being a limited resource because you support the city’s policy of giving developers a pass on building parking spaces. Instead of asking developers to pay their fair share with impact fees or find some other way to mitigate, you’d rather see a situation where everyone has to drive around hunting for a parking spot.
That hurts the working poor (maids, dog walkers, laborers), families, the disabled and the elderly. Do we only want a city that is welcoming to the young, childless & able bodied?
Might also consider taking him across 40th anywhere between Burke and Sunnyside — oh right, you can’t actually safely cross there because the visibility is awful and there are no crosswalks — what a pedestrian friendly City we live in … sorry, snark aside. That would be a great place to showcase, but not a quick walk from 45th and probably lower on the agenda than other walking spots — if someone on the walk could mention it… that would be awesome.
I think this is a great place to showcase as well – since the bus line goes through 40th, there are many corners where people need to cross both ways and it is very difficult to do that safely. Cars go by very fast and it is even more difficult in the winter months when visibility is poor because it’s dark and rainy. Flashing pedestrian crosswalks are great. Not sure what would be the implications of an actual stop light along the way (between Wallingford and 5th) but curious if this might help with pedestrian safety as well as with cars crossing 40th.
This summer a flashing beacon pedestrian crossing at 40th and Bagley will be added. It’s the final output from the district council system mayor murray killed off this fall.
I’ve been to two of these. Complete waste of time. Trust me, the beady eyes of Ed Murray do not wish to lay upon anything truly needing fixing.
How about getting rid of the creeps camping in Lower Woodland Park for starters. And the derelict RV’s by the post office and their disgusting trash. We don’t have the right to act that way, why should they be given a pass? And more hand activated flashing pedestrian crosswalk lights on Stone Way, especially at 48th.
or getting rid of the people who tent out on Stone Way N & 42nd??
Isn’t there already a flashing pedestrian light at 48th? Regardless, I agree there’s a need to improve pedestrian safety. I do worry that signs, lights and paint marking crosswalks might imply to drivers that they don’t need to stop for pedestrians at unmarked intersections. Maybe we need more education and outreach to all drivers (in addition to, not instead of, signs).
How abotu the graffitti all ove rthe now defunct Auto Supply Store? The graffitti on Tutta Bella? The graffitti on the orange traffic plastic dividers in front of the new apartment upgrowth on 45th as it becomes 46th just past T-Mobile?
It must be an election year.
Nah, Hizzoner does this year-round. It’s Potemkin af
Seriously find it fix it? Mayor Buffoon has no clue about how to fix anything. He just went on a national tour to figure out how to stop homelessness. If this was Yellowstone he would still be feeding the bears until they tore his arms off.
Other cities ship them here. Anyone who voted this man in or the current city council deserves to house 2 of these 4 choices, one furry homeless person and one illegal alien or one BLM activist and one anarchist / IWW person delivered for free by Jeff Besos through Amazon Prime.
Just a reminder to keep the conversation polite and respect everyone. Thank you.
Thanks Susanna!
Someone should walk him to the only neighborhood elementary school, the excellent but overcrowded Green Lake Elementary on 65th.
That’s a region-wide problem that’s not limited to Seattle. More school budget cuts are coming, and population is still growing. The mayor isn’t the one to fix this.
TJ – what’s happening in Wallingford is different than elsewhere. Mac Donald and Standford have been designated all city draws with small reservations for neighborhood kids. Green lake opened a new and needed cafeteria a couple of years ago that is now being used as classrooms. They are bursting. You should check it out if you haven’t. The district has plans in place to address overcrowding in Wallingford middle and high school but nothing for elementary.
While the Mayor isn’t responsible for schools he has some ability to highlight the problem, and with HALA coming I would argue he has a responsibility to address this.
TJ, you want more multifamily housing Wallingford. Families have children, and children need schools. Shouldn’t developers pay impact fees for that?
Community Center! Larger Library! More Open Space!