For both Updates and Status Reports, the City is reaching a broad cross-section of neighborhood stakeholders, using both innovative and time tested tools, from hands-on workshops to smaller scale interactive meetings with community-based organizations, as well as on line updates and surveys. So far in 2009, city staff have sponsored or contributed to more than 300 meetings and events, reaching both long-time veterans of neighborhood planning, stewards of the important work begun in the 1990s, and a new generation of neighborhood planners, building a broader base for civic engagement. This includes the work of Planning Outreach Liaisons (POLs), engaging historically underrepresented communities and multiple language groups. Download the Neighborhood Planning Outreach Liaison Community Workshop Themes for more information about the POL effort.
The Department of Neighborhoods is responsible for the City's neighborhood plan outreach efforts. DON has developed strategies for identifying and involving groups that may be hard-to-reach, or not typically involved in planning activities, to ensure that the plan update processes are broadly representative of all the members of each neighborhood. Please visit DON's public involvement website for more information, including information about the Neighborhood Plan Advisory Committee.
Upcoming Events
Neighborhood Status Reports Public Meetings
The Neighborhood Plan Advisory Committee (NPAC) and the Seattle Planning Commission want to report back to you on the trends that emerged so far in our neighborhood plans status checks. We want to get your help to identify the continuing priorities and new issues that should be emphasized in the final Status Reports and a State of the Neighborhood Report that will be presented to the City Council and Mayor.
Meeting Times and Locations
Thursday, November 5, 2009, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Mercer Middle School
Cafeteria (across from the Main Office in the main foyer)
1600 S. Columbian Way
Directions: www.seattleschools.org/schools/mercer/home/map.htm
Parking: Campus parking in the back of the school is most accessible to the cafeteria.
Neighborhoods: Admiral, West Seattle Junction, Delridge, Georgetown, Morgan Junction, Westwood-Highland Park, Columbia City Hillman City, Genesee, and Rainier Beach.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Seattle Central Community College
Room 1110/11 (first floor of the main building off of Broadway on the south end of the building)
1701 Broadway
Directions: http://seattlecentral.edu/maps/
Parking: Harvard Garage, 1609 Harvard Avenue
Neighborhoods: Queen Anne/Uptown, Belltown, Pike Pine, First hill, Eastlake, Capitol Hill, Central Area
Thursday, November 12, 2009, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
North Seattle Community College
Cafeteria (first floor of the College Center (CC), East wing, Southeast section)9600 College Way N.)
Directions: www.northseattle.edu/maps/directions.htm
Parking: South Visitor Lot (Permit required) corner of N. 95 St. and College Way N.
Neighborhoods: Broadview/Bitterlake, Haller lake, Aurora Liction Springs, Crown Hill/Ballard, Greenwood/Phinney Ridge, Wallingford, Fremont, Green Lake, Lake City, University Community
