“We here in Lynnwood want to protect all of our undocumented residents as well as those who want the fact that they had to live in Lynnwood for some reason to stay undocumented.”
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Agenda for the Shoreline City Council Meeting Tonight 2/23 has a vote on a proposed Resolution Supporting Immigrants and a Traffic Cameras Discussion. Rumor is there will be a lot of folks attending. Also... Save Shoreline Trees wants narrower sidewalks. shoreline.granicus.com/GeneratedAge...
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Let’s kill noxious weeds and tax the rich! If you want to tax the rich in Washington state, you should tell your legislators. The Balance Our Tax Code coalition has a handy Take Action page (balanceourtaxcode.com/take-action).
New Tiny Home Village in Lake City. With 45 Tiny Homes: Each with electricity, heat, A/C, and a door that locks. Shared kitchen and gathering spaces, restrooms, showers, and a laundry. Fully fenced with 24/7 security and case management. Mayor Katie Wilson Spoke.
The Shoreline city council will again discuss school zone traffic safety cameras at the Monday, Feb 23 meeting. Unlike neighboring cities, Shoreline still has no traffic cameras.
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Shoreline Neighborhood Greenways Network. Kids in all neighborhoods should be able to go for bike rides on safe streets near where they live. This proposal asks the city to use WSDOT’s Quick Build techniques to quickly and cheaply convert existing low-traffic streets into walkable Greenways.
Missed one. Danica Noble has also filed with the PDC
NOT Dickerson Falls, right? Or is it?
Building a Hedgerow at the restoration site. At the Hamlin Park urban forest restoration site, we are propagating native plants to build a hedgerow. A hedgerow is a dense row of woody debris, trees, shrubs, and other native plants. We build hedgerows to encourage park visitors to stay on the trail at the forest restoration site while also providing wildlife habitat. To build a hedgerow, we place a row of large woody debris into a line and then propagate native plants using hardwood twig live stakes. Being able to get outside and enjoy nature is a human right. And it is important that everyone has easy access to the outdoors near where they live. It’s great that we have so many park visitors to the restoration site, but we do ask everyone to please stay on the trails when they visit the site to help protect the baby plants. Here are some of the species of native plants we have propagated into the hedgerows at the Hamlin Park restoration site: * Blackcaps raspberries (Rubus occidentalis) * Thimbleberries (Rubus parviflorus) * Evergreen huckleberries (Vaccinium ovatum) * Oso berries (Oemleria cerasiformis) * Black cottonwoods (Populus trichocarpa) * Scouler's willows (Salix scouleriana) * Trailing blackberries (Rubus ursinus) * Nootka roses (Rosa nutkana) * Salmonberry (Rubus spectabilis) * Fireweed (Chamaenerion angustifolium) * Snowberry (Symphoricarpos albus) * Pacific Ninebark (Physocarpus capitatus) You can visit the site and look for these species next time you walk through, and you can find work parties to volunteer with your neighbors on the Green Shoreline Partnership website.
Building a Hedgerow at the restoration site; a dense row of woody debris, trees, shrubs, and other native plants to encourage park visitors to stay on the trail at the forest restoration site while also providing wildlife habitat. local.interurbancanopy.news/p/building-a...
I’m in Olympia to tell my legislators to tax the rich to house the homeless!
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Bothell ascendant.
I’m making a series of reaction videos to a webinar by the Seattle orca NIMBYs lolll here is my first one youtu.be/iWSjAmlVcJg?...
Bike crashes hit record highs in Shoreline too local.interurbancanopy.news/p/bike-crash...
Shoreline Greenways? Shoreline stopped building green streets while neighboring cities have converted existing local streets into walkable greenways. Now, some residents are asking the city of Shoreline to build a network of Neighborhood Greenways local.interurbancanopy.news/p/fifteen-ye...
Tree Planting Parties in parks across the city of Shoreline this week thanks to carbon capture grant. Please check out the Green Shoreline Partnership website to find dates and times. We will have dozens (dozens!) of baby trees at Hamlin Park this week. shoreline.greencitypartnerships.org
Earlier this week, a pedestrian was killed on 175th Street in Shoreline. Despite what you may have heard on social media, this was not an isolated incident. local.interurbancanopy.news/p/another-fa...
"EVERYBODY WORKS BUT THE VACANT LOT" I paid $ 3600, for this lot and will hold till I get $6000. The profit is unearned increment made possible by the presence of this community and enterprise of its people. Itake the profit without earning it. For the remedy read "HENRY GEORGE"
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A screen shot from The Seattle Times says: Steves was in Phoenix on Nov. 10 when he checked a hometown news blog and felt his eye catch on a story about the center's impending closure. He recognized the building, where he remembered taking his car to get its emissions checked. Steves, who didn't know what a hygiene center was before last month, called his purchase "the most beautiful Christmas present (he) could have."
Unfortunately, @seattletimes.com erased the non-profit @myedmondsnews.bsky.social and the reporting by @a-rlnt.bsky.social that made this story possible.
A screen shot from The Seattle Times says: Steves was in Phoenix on Nov. 10 when he checked a hometown news blog and felt his eye catch on a story about the center's impending closure. He recognized the building, where he remembered taking his car to get its emissions checked. Steves, who didn't know what a hygiene center was before last month, called his purchase "the most beautiful Christmas present (he) could have."
Unfortunately, @seattletimes.com erased the non-profit @myedmondsnews.bsky.social and the reporting by @a-rlnt.bsky.social that made this story possible.
I’m curious about why “the Pacific Avenue Greenway Project will cost an estimated $9.1 million.” Is that primarily because of the new signals?
Thanks Rick! And also thanks to Angelica Relente (@a-rlnt.bsky.social), the Murrow News Fellow who first reported about the hygiene center. Angelica's reporting was supported by the non-profit @myedmondsnews.bsky.social and the state-funded #WSU journalism fellowships.
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@seattletimes.com op-ed team is on vacation so they invited Nextdoor to help
do lower speed limits make roads safer?
Please consider donating to Camp United We Stand (CUWS). For over ten years, the camp has been the only legally sanctioned homeless tent city in North King County. The campers say they particularly need extra large winter jackets and boots. campunitedwestand-tentcity.org
Shoreline’s first separated bike lane
