The city plans to create bicycle parking in areas of the city, but Ballard is not first on the list.
"We plan to install them at various locations around the city, but have not yet decided on all of the locations," said Seattle Department of Transportation spokesperson Marybeth Turner.
The city is taking applications for the projects that can be funded through the Neighborhood Projects Fund, such as traffic circles, sidewalk repair, or playground improvements.
There are two funds set aside in the 2010 city budget for community-proposed streets and parks projects, approximately $1.2 million.
Neighborhood Project Funds can be used for small-scale (up to $90,000 per project) street or parks improvements, such as sidewalk repair, traffic circles and traffic calming, sidewalks, school zone speed limit signs and playground improvements, etc.
Our temperature inversion this week triggered a burn ban for many counties, including King County. This is because there is a lighter, warmer air mass above colder moister air. The air masses don't mix vertically, and the high pressure air mass above acts like a ceiling. As that ceiling lowers, pollutants in the atmosphere are trapped closer to where we live and breathe.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency sets federal standards for certain air pollutants.
Many programs that depend on funding from the city, county or the state are losing funding in this upcoming year; especially in the area of substance abuse prevention.
However, the community of West Seattle is lucky we have the Southwest Healthy Youth Partnership, which receives funding from a federal grant administered by the Division of Alcohol and Substance Abuse (DASA).
The city department of transportation plans to close the lefthand, eastbound lane today (Tuesday, Jan. 27) on the West Seattle Bridge from noon to 2 p.m.
During this closure a broken water line to a fire hydrant will be inspected.
Tallulah is one year old on February 2nd says her proud owner Heidi Reynolds. She is a mass of soft and shiny fur that Heidi attributes to her healthy diet of Natural Balance that she gets at Mud Bay, and the fish oil supplements she buys online that are especially designed for dogs. Tallulah goes to the Downtown Dog Lounge during the day in Belltown. She is so sweet, approachable, and outgoing that all the dogs will play with her. She has a doggy gang that follows her around.
While we were talking some birds flew over head and Tallulah, all seventy pounds of her, leaped up.
During the night the Seattle Department of Transportation applied deicer to the high level West Seattle Bridge, the Alaskan Way Viaduct, and the Aurora Bridge, to prepare for the morning commute.
Just between a half and one inch of snow is forecast this morning (Jan. 287) for the Seattle area and by midmorning any snow is expected to change to rain.
According to a release by the transportation department, trucks are standing by at various locations around the city including the West Seattle Bridge and the tops of hills, in case they are needed.
On Jan. 16, to start the New Year off correctly, the Salmon Bay Eagles, located at 5216 20th Avenue Northwest in downtown Ballard, celebrated the 19th year of having Thursday nights as Blues nights.
For this occasion, they had the Mary McPage Band play from 8:30 p.m. until 12:30 a.m. The well attended event included a lot of dancing and squirming on the dance floor.
Mary entertained as she sang, wandering through the audience at times. She handed out tiny plastic monkeys as mementos of their having been "monkeyfied" by participating at one of their gigs.
Today (Jan. 27), developers of the new Interbay Urban Center announced that Whole Foods will be the anchor tenant in the 80,000 square foot retail center.
Reporters and community members stood out in the cold Tuesday morning, as Doug Exworthy, a managing member of developers TFR Pacific LLC made the announcement and released the Whole Foods banner.
The new Whole Foods Market, which will employ about 150 people when it is scheduled to open in late 2009, will be the fifth Whole Foods in the Seattle area and the sixth in the state.
"Each store is individually designed and operated for the needs of the specific community it serves," said John Clougher, the company's president for the Pacific Northwest region. "The Interbay Whole Foods Market will have an interactive healthy eating center with chefs, a new Whole Values section, an expanded bulk foods section and a new sandwich bar that is unlike anything we have in our other stores."
Clougher said the Interbay store is the third collaboration between Whole Foods and TRF.
Home for Good, a non-profit aimed at getting low to moderate income earners into home ownership opportunities, presented it's design plans to the Northwest Design Review Board Monday (Jan. 26) evening. The project includes green building and residential units aimed at those earning between $40,000 to $50,000 a year.
The proposal calls from two buildings at 1506 N.W. 62nd St.; a four-story structure with 22 residential units and a ground-floor, 700 square foot commercial space. The second development is for a two-unit townhouse. Underground parking is planned and the existing tri-plex on the lot would be demolished.
This was the organization's first time before the design review board, which reviews development of a certain capacity and size as part of obtaining a master use permit from the city's department of planning and development.
Melanie Gillespie with Home For Good said the focus of the project is on "sustainability," not only through green built construction, but also aiding first-time home-buyers to maintain a responsible budget and own a home.
