I recently found The Wedgwood Vision Project blog and was impressed by the community-building taking place on this site. Funded by a $15,000 grant from the City of Seattle Department of Neighborhoods, its purpose is to facilitate growth and development within Wedgwood for one year.
I'm disappointed that I will miss the kick-off meeting on January 14th because this project has the potential to bring new ideas and change to the neighborhood. Here's the meeting details so you can attend and tell me what I missed!
Wedgwood Vision Project
Thursday, January 14th
Wedgwood Presbyterian Church
(corner of 80th & 35th)
6:30 - 9:00pm
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
How do you envision Wedgwood?
Categories: community, ne organizations, wedgwood
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Ok, So I went to the meeting. There were lots of people.. It was organized well... We were in groups that were given large wedgwood maps to add our "vision" to with markers. The most agreed upon topics were sidewalks, a farmers market at Hunter Tree farm, the post office needs a better locale or drive thru, a new park (i guess the parks dept already is looking for a good spot in the wedge for a new park believe it or not it could be on west side of 35th around 89th or something ). more crosswalks across 35th, finding a town center or plaza and enhancing it.. growing veggies in our front yards!! for sale at the marker(love this), Public art, humanscale business fronts only...
There were also some crazy ideas like adding a movie theatre and a burger joint, having a shuttle bus for just our hood ?
All in all it seems the average attendee put forth a vision for our little wedge that seemed very reasonable.. I think the Urban Planners (Makers Architecture) got the picture about us.
It was great, Thanks for telling me about it!
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