About 30 other protesters picketed the Crown Hill Safeway store on 15th Avenue NW and NW 83rd street last Friday, August 18. The protest took the form of a mock funeral for the neighborhood's "Pedestrian designation," a reference to a neighborhood plan to build pedestrian-accessible businesses in the community. Through a loophole in such legislation planned by the Seattle City Council, Safeway was able to submit an application to build a discount gas station, capable of servicing a dozen vehicles simultaneously, in the southwest corner of their parking lot along NW 83rd Street.

The City's Department of Planning and Development is currently considering the application and is expected to render a decision within a month.

"I would hope the Mayor would say 'I'm a green Mayor in a green city and I don't think we need more gas stations,'" said Jack Seifert, a neighbor picketing the store.