May 28

Watch out! Maple Leaf is "increasingly popular"

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In a recent slideshow on SeattlePI.com, Maple Leaf got something better than just a photo.

The slideshow, called “Where is that home, really?” includes the description: “Home listings often claim a neighborhood that’s not their own.”

It begins with what you would expect, a claim that if a listing says a home is in Green Lake, you should probably assume the home is not within a stone’s throw of the lake – it could even be as far as North Seattle Community College!

But Green Lake isn’t the only neighborhood that’s misidentified. Apparently, Maple Leaf is also a trendy label these days. According to slide 5:

It seems even fewer sellers want to identify as being in the Roosevelt neighborhood. Homes there often claim Ravenna or increasingly popular Maple Leaf.

Just for the record, here is the Maple Leaf Community Council’s official map of Maple Leaf, which runs from Northeast 75th Street to Northgate Way and from I-5 to Lake City Way (but minus Northgate Mall and Victory Heights).

Move over Green Lake, here comes Maple Leaf!

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  1. Sue —

    As you are aware, the MLCC has been involved in Northgate issues for decades. That involvement continues. We work with Pinehurst, particularly, on these issues. We’re heavily involved on ST Link issues and are trying to get a seat at the table to bring more housing affordable to people making Northgate-area wages.

    http://www.mapleleafcommunity.org/northgate.html

    (which does need updating, I know)

    But most of the mall and the business district is outside our boundaries. We simply don’t have the bandwidth to expand north. As more people move into the northgate area, perhaps they’ll form their own community council.

    David

  2. Realtors on the southend of Meadowbrook regularly advertise houses as being in Wedgwood. Wedgwood ends at 95th. 95th and north to 115th is Meadowbrook. Very few people have heard of Meadowbrook and Wedgwood is popular.

  3. I think you are all missing my point. There is no community council that wants to claim the Mall as their “territory” The business district is a “good ole boys club” and has never policed itself. Have you EVER heard of a Northgate business turning in another business for a code violation? DPD barely has the resources to repond to complaints and doesn’t go looking for violations no matter how gross they are.My question is WHY does Maple Leaf exclude the Mall and then WHAT neighborhood council does it belong to.

  4. PS: From Wikipedia:
    What is now Northgate has been inhabited since the end of the last glacial period (c. 8,000 BCE—10,000 years ago). The Dkhw’Duw’Absh, People of the Inside and Xacuabš, People of the Large Lake, Lushootseed (Skagit-Nisqually) Coast Salish native people had used the Liq’tid Springs area as a spiritual health spa. They harvested cranberries from the Slo’q `qed (SLOQ-qed, bald head), an 85 acre (34 ha) marsh and bog at what is now the NSCC car park, Interstate 5 interchange, and Northgate Mall. Large open areas for game habitat and foraging (anthropogenic grasslands) were maintained in what are now these neighborhoods by selective burning every few years.

  5. I don’t consider Northgate Mall part of our neighborhood at all. Isn’t that neighborhood simply called Northgate? I’ve called that area Northgate for 30 years. I can see people from our neighborhood having and interest or wanting to get involved, but for many of us the mall is 30 blocks away and someplace we rarely visit.

  6. This is something that has bothered me for a while. Which neighborhood then is Northgate Mall in? Years back Maple Leaf used to be involved with the Mall planning now there is no interest. Who is watching dogging? Just because its built doesn’t mean its ok to ignore. There have been numerous pedestrian street code violations I have been the only one to report. I have reported rock chip repair, car wash, dumpsters, transparency violations, all on the pedestrian street. Come on Maple Leaf,a little help here.

    Editor: Northgate, according to the city clerk’s office, would appear to be in Maple Leaf. But, as we’ve often written, there are no official neighborhood boundaries in Seattle, and the Maple Leaf Community Council explicitly excommunicates Northgate-the-Mall from our boundaries. I’m under the impression that “Northgate” is a sort of super-neighborhood description for planning purposes.
    In comments on that earlier post, we pointed out that the Northgate Chamber thinks: “Northgate includes Haller Lake, Licton Springs, Maple Leaf, Victory Heights, and the Pinehurst neighborhoods.”
    The community council might weigh in on this; incidentally, they are tracking Northgate developments, esp. transportation.
    We report on Northgate, wherever it is, because it hugely impacts Maple Leaf, in terms of crime as well as transportation. – Mike

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