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City Council candidate Pat Murakami will be at Acadia in Wallingford this Friday, June 16th from 6:00 to 8:00 PM.  Murakami says she wants to be a strong voice for the neighborhoods in City Hall and make developers pay impact fees that could go towards schools, transportation, parks and fire/safety.  For more information on this candidate for City Council, please visit her website at http://www.votepatmurakami.org/.  

Murakami is running for City Council position 9, an “at large” (citywide) seat.  Position 9 is currently occupied by Councilmember Lorena Gonzalez who is running for reelection (in case HALA and development are issues …

Lorenzo writes:

In the (very!) wee hours of last night’s snowstorm, an honorable neighbor intercepted a woman with two bikes north of our QFC. Nice bikes. Stolen bikes. Bikes now in my possession, and eager to return to their owners. (I know my bike would be eager to return to me.) So I’d be pleased to facilitate, if you can describe your steeds in sufficient detail, of course. One is blue, the other black. One seems like “his,” the other “hers.” Matching? Maybe–you tell me.

But seriously, as a victim of this kind of crime, I’m happy to help and …

Curious to see what the City is proposing for our neighbors to the East?

University District Urban Design Draft Zoning Proposal Open House
When: Tuesday, May 31, 2016, 6 – 8pm
Location: Neptune Theater (1303 NE 45th Street)

The University District is one of the first neighborhoods planned for upzoning since the City has been working on a plan for the University District for the last four years. The areas that are proposed for significant height increases are within the area roughly from NE 50th Street to the Ship Canal and from I-5 to 15th Avenue NE at the …

In January of this year, the Wallingford Community Council convened a meeting to educate the neighborhood on changes to zoning and housing policies that could have drastic effects on our neighborhood and our city.  I attended, as did many others (around 200 were in attendance).  At this meeting, I asked the person next to me, “What is an Urban Village?”  (Keep reading if you have had the same question).

Since that meeting I have dived in with both feet (which at times includes following the mayor around with a sign and balloons) but also includes getting past all of the …