Lake City neighborhood invited to participate in second online planning meeting for the Lake City Floodplain Park – Parkways

Be part of us on Zoom July 20, 2022 from 6:30-8:00 pm!

Seattle Parks and Recreation (SPR), Seattle Public Utilities (SPU), and Mid Sound Fisheries Enhancement Group are excited to ask the Lake Metropolis Neighborhood to take part within the second of three on-line workshops to plan the longer term Lake Metropolis Floodplain Park, 2318 NE one hundred and twenty fifth Road, Seattle, WA 98125, on Wednesday, July 20, 2022 from 6:30 to eight:00 pm. To obtain a Zoom hyperlink for the workshop, please register at lakecityfloodplainpark.com/register.

This on-line workshop will give an summary of the mission, mirror what we now have heard from the group to this point and supply a possibility for contributors to offer enter on methods to weave community-generated park concepts with the Thornton Creek restoration and floodplain reconnection objectives. Neighborhood suggestions about how Lake Metropolis residents want to use the longer term park might be integrated into the park design. The purpose of the brand new park is to supply an area that can serve the wants of the Lake Metropolis group, present accessible open house, and assist a more healthy Thornton Creek.

The group inspired the acquisition of the property, beforehand privately owned, as a result of they noticed a possibility to create extra inexperienced house within the Lake Metropolis group and to revive and defend Thornton Creek. In response to sturdy group advocacy and assist, Seattle Parks and Recreation and Seattle Public Utilities collectively bought the property in 2019. The demolition of one of many constructions onsite is full and SPR anticipates the opposite construction demolition to be accomplished by fall 2022.

For extra data on this mission, and to study how one can contribute concepts at any time, please go to lakecityfloodplainpark.com. For added data on the mission planning, please contact Jonathan Pagan, Seattle Parks and Recreation at jonathan.pagan@seattle.gov

or Holly Scarlett, Seattle Public Utilities at holly.scarlett@seattle.gov. For details about the general public workshops or how one can present enter, contact Tracy Banaszynski, Mid Sound Fisheries Enhancement Group at tracy@midsoundfisheries.org.