What about the impact this (former Sunset Bowl) property is currently having on the neighborhood?
I live on 14th Avenue Northwest and ride the bus, so I pass the abandoned Sunset Bowl and its deteriorating parking lot everyday. Not only is it an eye sore, it has already become an area you do not want to walk by in the evening.
I used to be able to walk to Safeway and/or Ballard Market in the evening and feel relatively safe.
When pumpkins appear at Top Banana at 15th and Northwest 65th I know that the end is near.
Soon there will be no more Top Banana until spring, except for the Christmas tree lot, and it's not like I need to pick up a fresh tree several times a week. January through March are long dark months when you've come to depend on owner Jimmy Wild's energy to light up Ballard.
What is it about Jimmy? Is it the fact that he carries a knife that makes him so direct? Have you ever been to Top Banana Produce for a watermelon or a bag of compost?
Like many of you, I received my ballot in the mail recently and want to urge you to go all the way to the bottom and vote Yes on Seattle Proposition 2 to continue investing in parks and open space as our city continues to grow and become more dense.
We also recently received our Voters' Pamphlet, and I thought a response to the wildly misleading opposition statement was in order.
As a forward-thinking voter, I'll vote Yes because I know from experience how hard it is to acquire open space in a fast growing, underserved neighborhood like Ballard during a boom cycle, and th
After Mayor Greg Nickels proposed new regulations for townhouses, some believe the process could become even more prolonged and costly.
But a group of architects now hopes to share the importance of multi-family housing and its new flexible zoning.
The city design review process hopes to encourage more tasteful townhomes that will blend in rather than stick out like sore thumbs in mixed housing communities.
After a long period of negotiations and planning for a safer 14th Avenue Northwest, residents of the street and surrounding neighborhood can now see the first steps of their vision being put into action.
Seattle Transportation finally broke ground at 14th Avenue Northwest and Northwest 58th Street to build two curb extensions on the northeast and northwest corners of the intersection.
After applying and searching for ways to help pay for its vision, the 14th Avenue Northwest steering committee received $18,000 last year from the Department of Neighborhoods and Seattl
Seattle Police are going to start enforcing the use of the so-called Business Access and Transit lanes on Elliott Way and on 15th Avenue.
The curb lanes in both directions of this corridor have been converted to access and transit lanes as part of the paving project.
The city administration's proposal to increase some Interbay height limits from 40 feet to 85 feet has been approved by the council's Planning, Land Use and Neighborhoods Committee.
Because it in an area-wide rezoning change, it requires a change in the city municipal code.
The change requires 11percent of developments in the area to include affordable workforce housing.
The mayor's proposal would have been permitted seven to 10 units but Clark proposed 20 percent of developments should be required to be affordable to people making 80 percent of the area's medi
In two weeks Seattle voters will have the opportunity to address the city's transportation crisis when they chose to approve or reject on Proposition 1.
The measure would authorize a new sales tax of 0.5 percent, costing the average household $125 each year.
The resulting funds would provide $17.8 billion to invest in short and long term mass transit resources in response to anticipated population growth. In the first year the program would expand express bus and commuter rail service.
King County's AAA bond rating was recently renewed despite the world financial crisis.
"These ratings validate the quality of my balanced 2009 budget proposal and the six-month lifeboat we created using reserves to continue critical services while seeking state help," said King County Executive Ron Sims.
200 medley relay - Inglemoor (Liane Lovitt, Leah Ruggerone, Claire Thompson, McKenna Grimsby) 2:05.14. 200 free - Briana Meyer, B, 1:57.93*. 200 IM - Katie Jo Burkland, B, 2:14.74*. 50 free - Dylan Miller, B, 26.70. Diving - Stacey Luke, I, 221.65. 100 fly -Annemarie Thayer , B, 58.52*. 100 free - Leann Yee, I, 56.08. 500 free - KJ Burkland, B, 5:08.98*. 200 free relay - Ballard (A. Thayer, Gailyn Portelance, KJ. Burkland, B. Meyer),1:44.10*. 100 back - A. Thayer, B, 58.03*. 100 breast - G. Portelance, B, 1:12.25. 400 free relay - Ballard (B. Meyer, D. Miller, G. Portelance, A.
