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Northgate Rezone Update

The following was sent to members of the Northgate Stakeholders Group. Lorna Mracheck is the representative from Pinehurst and I am her alternate. I am posting this here because I know many in the neighborhood are very interested in the progress of the proposed Northgate rezone. Please feel free to contact Lorna or me if […]

Update on Northgate

From an e-mail sent late Friday from Paul Fischburg to the Northgate Stakeholder’s Group:

Dear Northgate Stakeholder,

It’s been a while since our last correspondence so I wanted to give you a brief update, primarily about our rezone and urban design framework.

First the good news: We have a scheduled a date with the Mayor […]

New Pinehurst Representative to North District Council

We have a new Pinehurst representative on the North District Council: John Sullivan. Thank you to John for taking this on and for representing us.

North District Council meets monthly on the first Wednesday of each month at the first floor conference room at Lake City Library. Meetings are open to everyone. Definitely attend any […]

Seattle Times Article on Northgate Redevelopment

There is an article on the opening of Thornton Place and the potential rezone and future redevelopment at Northgate in the Seattle Times today. Read the article here.

Northgate Stakeholders Group Meeting Minutes – Northgate Urban Design Framework

Minutes from the November 18th Northgate Stakeholders Group Meeting on the proposed Northgate Urban Design Framework are available here.

Photos from Saturday’s Northgate Urban Design Framework Open House

John Lombard of Thornton Creek Alliance and Paul Fischburg, Senior Policy Advisor with the City of Seattle Office of Policy and Management

Pinehurst neighbors Sylvia Scott, her son Porter, and Stephen Debois

Mark Troxel from Department of Planning and Development and our translators Mohamed Khalif (Somali), Zubeda Adem (Tigrinya), Abdu Issa (Amharic)

Stephen Antupit and […]

Saturday’s Northgate Urban Design Framework meeting will be more exciting than this – I promise!

Come give your input on future design at Northgate. It is important. It will be fun. And, you won’t regret it.

Saturday, November 22Open House 1:30-4:30 pmNorthgate Community Center10510 5th Ave. N.E.Language interpretation and child care available

Learn more here and here and here.

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11/22 Community Meeting on the Proposed Northgate Urban Design Framework

Over the years, the community and the City have worked together in Northgate on a number of planning efforts. The City is taking all of the recommendations of these previous plans and using them to create an “Urban Design Framework” for the area between Meridian Ave N and Roosevelt Ave N and roughly from North […]

10/25 Special Pinehurst Tour of Thornton Place

The work on Thornton Place, the new “village” at the former Northgate south parking lot, has been ongoing for about a year and a half. I have been watching it evolve each week and am looking forward to the opening next year. If you have been wondering what the project is all about, here is […]

Public Hearing on Incentive Zoning for Workforce Housing – 10/7 at 5:30 pm

The City Council’s Planning Land Use and Neighborhoods Committee will hold a public hearing on the Mayor’s proposed ordinance establishing a new incentive zoning program for workforce housing.

PUBLIC HEARINGThe City Council’s Planning Land Use and Neighborhoods Committee will hold a public hearing to take comments on the proposal on October 7, 2008 at 5:30 […]