January 25

Tonight's annual January community meeting just winding down

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Maple Leaf’s own speed sign and radar gun were on display Wednesday night.

Crime took a holiday during the snow last week, and also at Wednesday night’s annual January community meeting.

In place of a discussion of crime and public safety, which drew police officials, City Council members and scores of neighborhood residents to the meeting in 2010 and 2011, the agenda started with a discussion of emergency preparedness.

That was followed by an overview and partial update on the Maple Leaf Reservoir Park, which opens next year, with many more details promised at a meeting in April. (Spoiler: the proposed 90-foot zip line appears to have been replaced by a “hill slide.”) Update Jan. 26: We get to KEEP the zip line! See comment below from Donna Hartmann-Miller, chair of the parks committee and Wednesday night’s presenter on this issue. We apologize for misunderstanding.

Development in the Northgate area was also discussed at the meeting, which is the January general meeting of the Maple Leaf Community Council. The council has a special page on its website dealing with the development issue.

Of particular interest are changes in bus service when LINK light rail opens in 2021. The direct bus service from Maple Leaf to downtown will be largely replaced by light rail from Northgate.

We’ll be circling back on some of these issues in coming weeks.

Tonight’s meeting is almost over (we posted briefly, below, when it started) but the community council is also looking for direction from residents on the development and light rail issues, and on what other issues the council should emphasize. You can join their community email lists here.

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  1. Yay for the zip line! There’s a park in Ballard sorta near the highschool that has one and it’s lots of fun for both kids and adults.

  2. I just posted photos of two local Zip Lines for people to see on the Friends for a Greater Maple Leaf Park Facebook page. When I get a chance, I will grab someone and go there and take photos with someone actually on it rather than empty. They really are wonderful and popular. In fact it took me quite a while of standing around for them to NOT be used for me to take a photo.

  3. A follow-up note regarding the Zip Line: when I had the question to describe the Zip Line, I didn’t give a very good description, but I did give examples of other parks that have Zip Lines (Cowen Park, Denny Park, Seward Park) if people would like to go look at them. I will post photos of the Cowen Park and the Denny Park Zip Lines on the Friends for a Greater Maple Leaf Park Facebook page tonight (Thursday).

    If anyone else had questions there wasn’t time to answer last night or there is an issue you think we should be concerned with, please feel free to send an email to reservoirpark@mapleleafcommunity.org

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