A woman speaking into a microphone at a podium to City of Seattle officials in a crowded auditorium.
Thanks to everyone who attended the Fort Lawton Public Comment Session! You can still send your comments by May 30 to OHComments@seattle.gov, subject “Fort Lawton Redevelopment Draft SEIS Comment.” Learn more on our website! #SeattleHousing #CommunityDevelopment #FortLawton
Thanks to everyone who came out to the #FortLawton housing event! Great turnout, hope the project moves forward soon. Also hi to @jazzyspraxis.bsky.social , who I was sitting right behind, but who I didn't get to say hi to in person
Final informal speaker tally: 26 in favor of #affordableHousing at #FortLawton in #Seattle, 21 opposed, 2 with no expressed opinion.
Commenter calls out Dan Strauss for not visiting Magnolia more often, as a lead in to opposing housing at #FortLawton
Later commenters have skewed more pro-housing at #FortLawton, and a few have called out earlier commenters, drawing some loud rebukes from the crowd
My @sngreenways.bsky.social buds are saying our pieces in favor of #affordableHousing at #fortLawton. “De-parking-lotting this space,” and so forth.
“Would you put affordable housing on The Mall in Washington, DC?” asks an anti-housing commenter. #DiscoveryPark and #FortLawton are being really bigged up by the anti people.
Through 20 comments, we’re at 9 pro, 10 con, and 1 neutral on housing at #FortLawton
An older gentleman points out the dangers of cars in parks. We need bigger parking lots, he says, to preserve Discovery Park
#FortLawton
With 500 housing units, “there have got to be 500 cars,” says one anti-housing commenter at #FortLawton
Pete Hanning, who unsuccessfully challenged Strauss for the D6 seat, is not opposed to housing, he says, but is strongly in favor of animals at #FortLawton
The “parks option” for #FortLawton, which is to say all park and no housing, has been raised by 2 of the first 12 commenters.
A commenter invokes Central Park in New York as a strong argument against housing on the #FortLawton site. She also describes herself as a “Seattle native” in a Native American cultural center. The history of Central Park looms large here.
Of the first ten #FortLawton commenters, 6 are pro-housing, 3 are anti-housing, and 1 expressed no discernible opinion. Self-described Magnolia residents have been most vocally negative.
Another anti-housing commenter cites location, schools, and “safety” as reasons to build affordable housing in Magnolia #FortLawton
We are underway at 6:41 pm with #FortLawton public comment, with a complaint about traffic flow, given Magnolia Bridge construction, other construction, and insufficient transit.
45 people signed up for comment #FortLawton
The #FortLawton plan is for 500 new homes and 22 additional acres of park land. No change of site is being considered.
“We have done a lot of community engagement already,” says Gomez, at the #FortLawton public comment session where I’m expecting some commenters to say that there wasn’t enough engagement with the community (this is a mislead, there is always enough engagement in #Seattle)
Now we hear from Andy Sheffer of #Seattle Parks about plans to add park space at #FortLawton
Gomez talking about housing for families and formerly homeless persons, including a multi-generational family on a six-figure income. Permanent supportive housing also planned at #FortLawton
“We are not going to be taking down … any tree that we don’t have to,” says Jessica Gomez, Seattle Office of Housing, about #FortLawton development
I’m at Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center with a few @sngreenways.bsky.social members, ready to give comments about redeveloping #FortLawton to have #affordableHousing. Commenters will have 90 seconds to say their piece. Hi, @typewriteralley.bsky.social
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Seattle! Speak up for more housing & new neighbors
Virtual: Tues., October 15, 2024, from 10 - 11 a.m. (Registration required)
#FortLawton #DiscoveryPark #AffordableHousing #Seattle
Learn more!
housing.seattle.gov/fort-lawton-...
(link to snarky chart www.canva.com/design/DAGTO...)
At #FortLawton there is a 10 yr old battle for 238 new units, i.e. less than the number of new dwellings King Co needs to build by Friday, to keep up with demand.
