Georgetown Healthy Street
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Georgetown Healthy Street Enhancements
We’re making upgrades to the Healthy Street on Carleton Ave S between S Willow St and S Eddy St. The upgrades include adding large street trees, potentially expanding Oxbow Park, and making other public space improvements. We plan to start installing upgrades as soon as summer 2026. If you want to learn more, call us at 206-900-8760 or email HealthyStreets@seattle.gov. If you need more information about the project in another language, tell us your preferred language in English when you call or email. We offer translation and interpretation for free.
Learn more and take our survey by March 31.
Estamos haciendo mejoras en la Calle para Mantenerse Saludable de Carleton Ave S entre S Willow St y S Eddy St. Las mejoras incluyen plantar árboles grandes en la calle, la posible ampliación de Oxbow Park y otras mejoras en los espacios públicos. Planeamos comenzar con las obras a partir del verano de 2026. Si desea saber más, llámenos al 206-900-8760 o envíe un correo electrónico a HealthyStreets@seattle.gov. Si necesita más información sobre el proyecto en otro idioma, indíquenos en inglés cuál es su idioma preferido cuando nos llame o escriba. Ofrecemos servicios gratuitos de traducción e interpretación.
Obtenga más información y responda nuestra encuesta para el 31 de marzo.
我們將針對位於 S Willow St 與 S Eddy St 之間的 Carleton Ave S「健康街道」進行改善工程。改善內容包括新增大型行道樹、評估擴大 Oxbow Park 的可能性，以及進行其他公共空間的改善。我們計畫最快於 2026 年夏季開始進行改善工程。如果您想了解更多資訊，請致電 206-900-8760 或發送電子郵件至HealthyStreets@seattle.gov。如果您需要其他語言的專案資訊，請在致電或發送電子郵件時用英語告知我們您的首選語言。我們提供免費的筆譯和口譯服務。
Updated February 2026
What's Happening Now?
We're designing upgrades to the Healthy Street on Carleton Ave S!
The upgrades include adding large street trees, potentially expanding Oxbow Park, and incorporating other public space improvements. You can read more about these upgrades below.
We want to hear what you think about the updates we're considering. Take our survey by March 31.
Sign up for email updates to the Georgetown Healthy Street to get the latest project information. The Georgetown Healthy Street email sign up is under the Walking & Biking category.
Upgrades to the Georgetown Healthy Street
We're designing upgrades to the Healthy Street on Carleton Ave S between S Willow St and S Eddy St. The upgrades include adding large street trees, potentially expanding Oxbow Park, and incorporating other public space improvements. The project will:
- Grow the city's urban tree canopy and address inequities by adding large trees in the Georgetown neighborhood, which disproportionately lacks tree canopy. These large trees will help provide shade and cooling, store carbon, filter pollutants, and provide habitat for urban wildlife.
- Better align Carleton Ave S with current City standards by reducing some of the road width used for a drive lane to provide more space for community enhancements like trees and planting areas, potential expansion of Oxbow Park, benches, and community art.
- Potentially reconfigure some street parking to meet parking needs, while still making spcae for other desired community enhancements.
- Further encourage people to drive slowly on the Healthy Street to make it more comfortable for people walking, biking, and playing.
- Support our priorities to make neighborhood streets more enjoyable, livable, and safer for everyone.
This project is possible with funding from the 2024 Seattle Transportation Levy. We're coordinating with Seattle Parks and Recreation who will lead design and outreach for a potential expansion of Oxbow Park.
Left: Map showing the project area | Right: Map showing the potential Oxbow Park expansion area
Background
Carleton Ave S is designated Neighborhood Yield Street, which are low speed, low volume streets that provide access to residences and community amenities like parks and schools. A typical Neighborhood Yield Street is 25 feet wide from curb to curb. Carleton Ave S is much wider than this standard and is 42 feet wide curb to curb. For comparison, nearby Flora Ave S is 29 feet wide curb to curb.
We are evaluating narrowing sections of Carleton Ave S between S Willow St and S Eddy S to better meet the guidelines for a Neighborhood Yield Street and to create space for community enhancements like street trees. On narrower sections of the street, cars traveling in opposite directions will yield as they pass each other, which is typical for Neighborhood Yield Streets. Carleton Ave S will continue to have street parking and two-way traffic.
We heard support from the community for narrowing the roadway in locations to make space for trees and potentially expanding Oxbow Park. We heard this feedback in 2023 when doing outreach about making the Healthy Street permanent. As we start to design this project, we will collect more public feedback and evaluate potentially reconfiguring and reducing some of the existing street parking to make space for community enhancements.
Street tree examples
We have an opportunity to add large street trees on Carleton Ave S. These large species of trees can provide more shade and tree canopy than smaller types of street trees. Large street trees could include species such as Douglas Fir.
Example of a mature Douglas Fir | Comparisons of typical street trees and larger species
Schedule
In 2026, we plan to:
- Conduct outreach and develop project design
- Continue working with Seattle Parks and Recreation on the planning, design, and outreach on the potential expansion of Oxbow Park
- Potentially begin implementing project elements such as reconfiguring street parking, planting trees, or adding other community enhancements
- Continue coordinating with other project teams on the other future upgrades to the Neighborhood Greenway that are being built with other projects
Other Future Upgrades
We’re also evaluating potential opportunities to make additional upgrades to the Georgetown Healthy Street and Neighborhood Greenway in the future. These additional upgrades will create safer crossings and better connections to other bike facilities and neighborhood destinations. They include:
- A new flashing pedestrian crossing sign on Corson Ave S at S Willow St. This work is planned as part of a Vision Zero Arterial Traffic Calming project in 2026.
- A new proposed Neighborhood Greenway connection on S Willow St from Corson Ave S to Ellis Ave S, and on Carleton Ave S from S Willow St to E Marginal Way S. The new Neighborhood Greenway will create better connections between the Healthy Street, the new shared-use path on Ellis Ave S, and the future East Marginal Way S bike lane that will be built with the East Marginal Way S Paving and Safety Improvements Project.
- A new flashing pedestrian crossing sign on Ellis Ave S at S Willow St, connecting people to the new trail on Ellis Ave S (built with the Georgetown to South Park Safety Project) and the new proposed Neighborhood Greenway connection. The new flashing pedestrian sign is tentatively planned for 2027.
- New signs and markings to create an improved transition from the future new two-way protected bike lane on East Marginal Way S to the Neighborhood Greenway on Carleton Ave S. The improved transition and new bike lanes will be constructed with the East Marginal Way S Paving and Safety Improvements Project.
Permanent Georgetown Healthy Street
We finished installing the permanent Georgetown Healthy Street in June 2025. It includes safety and traffic calming such as speed humps, Healthy Street signs, concrete sign bases, concrete planters, and painted curb bulbs with flexible posts at intersections. The Healthy Street is connected to a larger network of Healthy Streets and Neighborhood Greenways.
If you live on the Healthy Street, you can use your street as a Play Street without applying for a permit!
Play Streets can be used to host neighborhood events, like block parties and community dinners, or as a place for kids to play. You can also sign up to receive a Play on your Healthy Streets Kit.
People biking on the Healthy Street. Concrete sign bases and painted curb bulb are typical design features at Healthy Street intersections.
Materials
Georgetown Community Council Meeting - October 2023