July 1 at Town Hall Seattle -- Our Future: Walkable Urbanism

An excellent panel assembled by Island Press will address ways to create walkable urban centers and encourage transit in the context of local and federal policy, as well as opportunities for architects, developers, and preservationists to consider current regulations and policy change. Thursday, July 1, 2010, 6 – 7:30pm downstairs at Town Hall Seattle; enter on Seneca Street. $5. More...

Aging in Place -- NEST gets coverage in the Seattle Times

Northeast Seattle's nonprofit "virtual village" to help residents stay in their own homes and neighborhoods as they age got an excellent write-up in the Seattle Times today. You can visit NEST (for Northeast Seattle Together) online at www.nestseattle.org.

Dominos space on 35th NE now for lease

WedgwoodView reports that the Dominos Pizza space on 35th Ave NE (remember when it was a Dairy Queen?) is now up for lease. See the full posting.

Wedgwood Vision Plan almost finished

Recipe for a Vision Plan...

Ingredients

• Input from scores of community members at community meetings.
• Over 800 responses to a community survey.
• Hundreds of volunteer hours.
• Professional consulting by an experienced urban design firm.

Directions

• Form steering committee advised by consultant to synthesize community input.
• Create vision plan draft and let rise.
• Knead, rework, and let rise again.
• Repeat step 3.
• Release final plan to the community and celebrate!

The Vision Project steering committee and Makers Architecture & Urban Design are in the process of editing a final draft of the Wedgwood Vision Plan. In the long delay since our last post, we have been following the recipe above with promising results.

Save the date: July 14, 7-8:30 p.m. outside at 35th Ave NE & NE 80th St. The public release and celebration of the Wedgwood Vision Plan! More details to come.