Category Archives: Parks & Greenspace

Announcements, Parks & Greenspace, Public Notices, Transportation, Walkability

Holman Road Median Study Meeting

December 10, 2009 at 7:00pm
Journey Church , 9204 11th Ave NW

On Thursday, December 10 at 7:00pm the Crown Hill Neighborhood Association and the Crown Hill Business Association will host a community meeting to review designs for a series of planted medians for a section of the Holman Road / 15th Ave NW corridor.  Produced by a team of students from the University of Washington’s Community, Environment, and Planning Program, these designs reflect the feedback received from over 290 Crown Hill residents through an online survey, as well as conversations with SDOT, Metro transit officials, and business owners along the corridor.

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Announcements, Parks & Greenspace, Walkability

Carkeek Park Salmon Migration Walk

Saturday, November 28th
10 AM to noon (or so)
Meet-up under the big oak tree at 13th and 95th

Crown Hill resident Doug Gresham will be leading a walking tour to observe the migration of salmon up Piper’s Creek in Carkeek Park. Doug has worked on making the creek more friendly to salmon returning to spawn, helping to design and construct some of the habitat improvements.

This is our third annual Thanksgiving walk to the creek and is a rain or shine event. An ideal antidote to all of that sleep-inducing tryptophan (http://recipes.howstuffworks.com/question519.htm) ingested on Thanksgiving day. Come join your neighbors for a gently-paced, child-friendly amble to Carkeek Park. At previous walks, sharp-eyed participants have spotted masked marauding bandits (raccoons) sleeping in the tree-tops as well as hawks, woodpeckers, and other wildlife in addition to salmon.

Parks & Greenspace, Walkability

Traffic Circle 13th and 95th planted

The traffic circle (some have called it a dented football shape) at 13th and 95th was planted on Saturday, October 24th with a variety of plants, including cotoneaster, iris and other plants from the Seattle Dept. of Transportation and private donations. Neighbors, Jen Smith, Loxy Balthazar, Laura Wakefield and her daughter planted the circle on a beautiful, sunlit day. The traffic circle was installed by SDOT in 2008 as a Bridging the Gap project funded from the levy passed by Seattle Voters in 2006. Another circle at 12th and 95th was installed the prior year and planted last fall.

Digging in
Digging in

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Parks & Greenspace

Ideas wanted for parks!

Parks/Green Spaces Opportunity Fund:

We want your ideas for increasing green space in Crown Hill!

The Parks and Green Spaces Levy Oversight Committee is now accepting proposals for using the Levy’s Opportunity Fund to develop more parks and open spaces in Seattle, including for the acquisition of properties.  The Opportunity Fund from the Pro Parks Levy of 2000 was what was used to purchase the property at 17th and 62nd, which is now Ballard Corners Park, as well as the former Seventh Elect Church on 9th Ave NW, which also is to be developed into a park.

Please let us know (park@crownhillneighbors.org)  if you have ideas for parks and open space development, whether it is a derelict building, an existing open space on which you would like to see improvements made, or some other creative idea.  We are looking for ideas beyond the park at the Crown Hill Elementary property–that one is already in the bag!  CHNA wants to collect feedback and help advance our neighborhood’s top choices through the selection process.  The deadline for proposals is February 1.

More information on the Opportunity Fund can be found at www.cityofseattle.net/parks/levy/opportunity.htm

Events, Gardening, Parks & Greenspace

Piper Orchard’s 4th Annual Fall Festival of Fruit and Tour

Saturday, Sept 18th, 2010
10 AM – 2 PM

Tour the 119 year old orchard, see displays to learn more about growing your own trees, bring apples from your trees to determine their variety, live music, food booths, learn about orchard history, grapes in the orchard, pest management, permaculture, kids crafts and more.

http://pipersorchard.wordpress.com/category/festival-of-fruit/, 206-684-0877, or carkeek.park@seattle.gov