August 18

News on Maple Leaf's coming Reservoir Park

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The Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce has a piece this week headlined: “Maple Leaf Reservoir park design on hold.”

You need a subscription to the paper to read the piece online, but what they mean by “on hold” is that the design won’t be finalized until next summer when construction on putting the reservoir underground is closer to being finished. This was announced at June’s meeting on the Reservoir Park. Among other things, it gives the neighborhood time to raise money for additional park features.

Here’s the interesting part in the DJC story, for residents who still hope for more input into what goes into the park:

The schematic plan for the park was recently shown to the Seattle Design Commission. Commissioners asked the team to address community concerns by identifying future projects that could become part of the park if funding becomes available. These include a P-patch and more picnic shelters.

At the commission meeting, a representative of the Maple Leaf Community Council said it had a meeting scheduled with the city to discuss these items. (Architect Greg) Brower said most of the community’s ideas, such as a P-patch, have already been considered and drawn up by his office. “We’ll wait to see what our direction is from Parks.”

One other thing. The DJC piece claims the new park “will have the second highest view point in Seattle.” Nice, but as Maple Leaf Life has (repeatedly) reported before, “we’re No. 3.”

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  1. You actually don’t need a subscription to read The Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce. You can buy a copy at Bulldog News.

    It arrives mid-day on each day of publication.

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