In her newsletter to constituents District 1 Seattle City Councilmember Lisa Herbold describes the Delridge Action Plan and recent activities:

"On Tuesday I toured Delridge to explore some items in the Delridge Action Plan. The Action Plan establishes five priorities including: “a community where all people can live their lives to the fullest potential; parks and natural environment that support a healthy neighborhood; great neighborhood destinations; a complete transportation network where walking biking and taking transit are easy choices; and access to affordable, healthy food. Each priority includes a vision discussion, associated goals, policies and implementation strategies.”

We started at the Youngstown Cultural Arts Center where we met up with a few members of the Advisory Board and department staff. We received a briefing from staff and talked about the multimodal transportation project in the Delridge Corridor, the plan to improve the natural drainage systems for Longfellow Creek, the wetlands & stewardship project, the proposed Delridge Grocery Co-op – the recent recipient of a $100,000 grant from the King County Conservation District funding - at Cottage Grove Apartments, and finally a Delridge business survey to catalogue businesses and their needs in the area.

Later we all loaded into a van and visited the newly dubbed “Brandon Junction” where more investments are needed to add sidewalks to create pedestrian connections with High Point. The community has successfully applied for and received funding for piecemeal sidewalk installation, but more is needed to make the well-used travel route safe for walkers. We also visited Longfellow Creek, and the wetlands just off the Brandon Junction where community members are interested in opening visual sightlines from the street to the golf course, currently obstructed by foliage. Coincidently, while we were visiting the wetlands the Energy and Environment Committee voted unanimously to transfer the former Delridge Substation property from Seattle City Light to the Parks and Recreation Department. With the financial backing from the Delridge Neighborhood Development Association (DNDA) the City will acquire the property for open space and a natural wetland. The wetland will detain storm water runoff, alleviating flooding of neighborhood yards and driveways, and will provide biofiltration of storm water runoff before it enters Longfellow Creek. The DNDA will partner with Seattle Tilth, the Nature Consortium, and staff and students from Louisa Boren STEM K-8 school, to develop and manage part of the property as a permaculture food forest. This land management system combines aspects of the native habitat with edible forest gardening. A children’s garden will link classroom and field experience to educate local youth in environmental science and stewardship.

This is an exciting opportunity for the neighborhood, and I am thankful that DNDA was able to support this project. Preservation of green space maintains livability in a growing city."