SPF 30, the 30th Anniversary beach party celebration iconic Seattle record SubPop Records is staging Aug. 11 is in the final stages of preparation. Their CEO Megan Jasper and Operations Manager Gabe Carter came to the Alki Community Council meeting on July 19 to address the remaining questions regarding access, noise, sani-kans and more. The event will likely be the biggest single day event in West Seattle's history with as many as 30,000 people expected to attend. The primary music lineup was announced on May 29 but Jasper said a few new additions will be announced at the end of next week. Mudhoney, Shabazz Palaces, and Wolf Parade are the announced headliners.You can see more info on the event on the page set up for it here. There will be a record fair, a poster show by Flatstock, beer gardens, and Sub Pop merch booths in addition to the music.

Carter said the street closures plan they will use is based on Alki Summer Streets. That will mean Alki Ave SW will close that day from 56th SW to 63rd SW and on 59th SW from Alki Ave SW to Stevens SW. That's where trucks will be parked for the event. Soft street closures will affect the neighborhood and require a driver's license or a utility bill to provide proof of residence for access. SPD Lieutenant Steve Strand explained that barriers would be placed on those streets leading to Alki Ave and monitored by officers. Alki Ave SW will be a "hard closure" since stages will be put up there but a 20 foot access lane on the beach side of the street will remain open for emergency vehicles. 

There will be local access from 63rd Ave SW. and Admiral Way SW on so people coming down Admiral won't be able to make a right on 63rd.

Alleyways in the area are a concern for residents and Strand said "There are 30 specific points where there will be blocks or monitors to control who comes into the area...It's going to be a little chaotic that day." Jasper said they are bringing in both hired security and volunteers to help with traffic management focusing on the alleyways plus, "Because we don't want people going to the bathroom in the alleyways we've talked about bringing Sani-Kans or Honeybuckets into the alleyways." Carter added that their own security people will be working in a proactive way to prevent issues should they arise rather than just responding to a problem. A high concentration of their volunteers will be working at the Alki Playfield north of the Alki Recreation Center and  "that needs to be a safe, family friendly, kid friendly area, It's the shortest part of the festival. It will shut down by 6pm. The majority of the volunteers there will be working the entire area there. We asking them to respect the fact that we are guests in the resident's homes or neighborhood and to treat it like their own." Volunteers will have "Kelly Green" SubPop or Volunteer T-Shirts with a logo on the pocket to help people recognize those working the event.

Jeff McCord, Executive Director for Southwest Seattle Historical Society (SWSHS) said, "This is an event that is meant to be a good neighborly thing so we have volunteers from our organization and very likely from Homestreet Bank."

A question came up regarding the volume of the music. Jasper said that the family stage at the Alki Recreation Center field will feature acts like Caspar Babypants, the Not-Its, and the West Seattle School of Rock performers and is not expected to be high volume. She did allow for the fact that other acts on the two stages on Alki would likely produce volumes at the "maximum the law allows. It will be loud." She noted that the second to last band will play a style of music she called DreamPop which she said is, "Loud, melodic dreamy music. The last band that will play will play facing the water so hopefully it will travel over the water and dissapate."

The entire festival will be over by 10pm so noise after that time will not be from amplification.

Getting there is the question on most people's minds and they addressed it.

There will be three shuttles. A large10 acre parking lot on Harbor Ave SW across from the 7-11 will be for parking. "They can rent a bike share or walk to a street stop outside the Don Armeni Boat Ramp to ride a shuttle. They will travel around the point, drop off at 56th SW and loop around the point. Another one will come down Admiral Way SW with a stop at Waite Street SW and come down to 61st near the Log House Museum from the Admiral District. A third will travel down Jacobsen Road and travel up Beach Drive dropping people off at 61st SW. The full set of map routes and stops will be published on www.subpop.com soon. Other shuttles may be added as the plans gel a bit further Carter said. The West Seattle Water Taxi will make additional trips on Saturday where the shuttle will also stop.

Jasper said this intended to be a zero waste event. That means compostable cups and plates and "We are going to have so many trash cans and recycling bins and compostable buckets everywhere possible. We will also have volunteers working the entire are just to pick up things as it happens that day... The day after on Sunday, STG (Seattle Theater Group who are partnering with SubPop for the event) is doing a massive sweep of the area to clean it and on Monday Puget Soundkeepers will come in with SubPop volunteers and concentrate on the shore area and go through the neighborhood one more time. A street sweeper will also be used on 59th in the early morning hours to clean up any stray refuse. The landscaping on Alki on the Promenade and elsewhere will be fenced.

Jasper said she did not know when the food trucks will stop serving but when they did the Georgetown 25th Anniversary event in 2013 they ran out of food before the end of the show.

McCord announced that two events will take place at the Log House Museum. An exhibit called SoundSpots exploring the history of music in West Seattle and the Duwamish Peninsula will open a few days before the SPF 30 event and continue for 9 months or more. During the SPF event the West Seattle School of Rock perfomers will play on the museum porch as another minor music venue. He also shared that a special custom SubPop guitar has been made by Walla Walla Guitars that will be auctioned off on EBay soon to benefit the museum.