Leschi The Leschi Community Council presents an evening with your legislators at its next meeting, on Wednesday, May 5, at the Central Area Senior Center, 500 30th Ave. S., starting at 7:30 p.m.
Sen. Adam Kline and Reps. Sharon Tomiko-Santos and Eric Pettigrew will share their views on the recent legislative session and discuss what lies ahead. Substantial time will be allowed for questions from attendees.
Mark your calendar now for May 22, from noon to 4 p.m., when the community celebrates itself at Flo Ware Park (28th Avenue South and South Jackson Street). Bring a dish to share with six to eight of your neighbors. Entertainment planned, and casual dress is recommended.
— Diane Snell
Madison Park This past year was busy one for us. Here’s some of our work to preserve our quality of life.
•LOLA Project — The Madison Park Community Council’s (MPCC) LOLA Project Committee extends a thank you to all the community members who attended the second community design meeting of the LOLA (Love Our Lake Access) Project on April 15. The landscape architect firm, Murase Associates, presented three preliminary design concepts, and community members participated in group discussions expressing their thoughts on preferred elements for the park design.
The third community design meeting will take place May 26 at 7 p.m. at the Park Shore Retirement Community, 1630 43rd Ave. E.. here in Madison Park. The agenda will be to present the final design concept. Please attend, and bring a neighbor. Monitor LOLA Project updates at www.madisonparkseattle.com.
(Editor’s note: Members of the Madison Park business community are protesting this plan because of the potential loss of needed street-parking spaces. A story on this issue will appear in the June issue.)
•SR 520 bridge — The Coalition for a Sustainable 520 and the MPCC submitted their responses to the SR 520 Environmental Impact Statement on April 15. The City Council also responded, and we are pleased the council is now voicing many of our concerns. These reports are on our website: www.madisonparkseattle.com (click on the 520 on the left side).
Our concerns include noise, height and width of bridge, impact on wetlands and wildlife; congestion at Montlake and surface streets in Seattle, not to mention the inadequacy of funding to complete the project or the visual blight of the noise barriers. WSDOT was to issue its final recommendations at end of April.
•Metro-shelter graffiti — The acid-etched graffiti panels were replaced at the bus shelter at 39th Avenue East and East Madison Street. The roofless shelter at 43rd Avenue East and East Blaine Street will be replaced with a park bench, funds permitting.
•Beach/Park vendor — Because of safety concerns and revenue losses by our local businesses, we asked the city not to issue a permit for such vendors this summer.
•Community improvement project — Cleanscape has notified us that Madison Park, along with five communities within our trash collection area, are eligible for a $50,000 grant because we recycled more trash than other areas. We will submit a proposal in the next few months.
•Annual fund-raiser — We are collecting books, CDs and DVDs for our annual fund-raiser. We need a dry storage location until our summer sale. Have donations? Please call 794-6841.
