At the upcoming meeting, Parks will ask the community provide ideas for a Pro Parks Levy funded project to make improvements to the Green Lake Plaza & Shade Garden. Voters approved the project in the 2000 Pro Parks Levy. The Levy language stipulates that Parks "create passive recreational areas, gathering areas, shade garden and seating around Green Lake Community Center."
The Pro Parks Levy provides $361,000 for the design, construction and project management of the improvements. Approved by Seattle voters in 2000, the $198.2 million Pro Parks Levy funds more than 100 projects over eight years. Projects include improvements to sports fields, playgrounds, trails and community centers and parks. Funding also increases green spaces, supports Zoo programs and enhances park maintenance. This project will help build a stronger community and healthy families, one of Mayor Greg Nickel's highest priorities for Seattle.
For more information, please contact Parks Project Planner David Goldberg at 206-684-8414 or davidw.goldberg@seattle.gov, or visit the project web site at www.seattle.gov/parks/proparks/projects/greenLakePark.htm.
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There should be an effort made to improve the Southend areas of Seattle (such as Inernational District, Rainier Valley, Central District and Martin Luther King Jr. Way). These neighborhoods are home to many ethnically diverse families that have recieved the sloppy seconds of "rich/white area" plans for improvement. These areas have forever been stereotyped to be the "wrong side of the tracks," and while petitions have gone out to help upgrade the outdated parks, schools and overall neighborhoods of these areas, they have been ignored. The financial help always goes to neighborhoods that do not necessarily need the improvements but want them. Things need to change in order to better help the youth and families of ALL of Seattle, not just the privileged. As far as I am concerned, a resident of the Southend of Seattle, Greenlake does not need improvements. This project should be reevaluated and re-prioritized, with the most needy areas on top of the list.
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