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Pinehurst Community Meeting – Monday, January 26th at 7 PM

Come out and meet your neighbors, hear about new proposed townhouse zoning, learn about the Bike Smart Seattle Program, meet John Sullivan, our new Pinehurst rep to North District Council, and Lance Bachler, our new Pinehurst rep to North Precinct Advisory Council, and hear updates on other neighborhood projects and issues.

We are meeting at Amante Pizza where the Monday night specials include appetizer, beer and wine specials. Families are welcome. And, we are trying to keep the meeting a reasonable length (over by 8:30 or earlier) so you can have a chance to chat with neighbors if you like. Here are full details on location and agenda:

Pinehurst Community Meeting
Monday, January 26th
7 PM
Amante Pizza
12319 Roosevelt Way NE, Seattle, WA 98125

7:00 PM Presentation on the new proposed townhouse zoning- David Neiman of CORA Northwest

7:30 PM Bike Smart Seattle Program – Cascade Bicycle Club

7:45 PM Meet our new Pinehurst Reps to North District Council and North Precinct Advisory Council

8:00 PM Updates on:
Pinehurstfest 2009
Jackson Park Trail
Pinehurst Safeway
Schools
125th Sidewalk
115th Sidewalk
Northgate Rezone and Urban Design Framework

PS – We will have some of the swank new Pinehurst bumper stickers for sale at $2.50 each.

Questions? Renee at 206-366-9472 or e-mail

Seattle Public Utilities on High Alert for Rain and Flooding

Crews Remain on Call and on Standby Should Heavy Rains Hit the City

SEATTLE — Seattle Public Utilities (SPU) flood crews remain on standby waiting for the rains and high waters that have so far missed the city, but which could yet arrive.

“Even though we have not yet received the anticipated rain our crews are ready to respond if necessary,” said Nick Pealy, deputy director, Field Operations and Maintenance.

SPU crews have cleared inlets of debris at locations where there have been past ponding and flooding calls during recent weather events. Crews have inspected and removed debris as needed from culverts, trash racks, overflows and weirs.

Sand & sandbags are still stockpiled at 3 locations for citizens and crew to fill as necessary:
— Meadowbrook Pond (N. entrance).
— South Park (7th Avenue S. dead end).
— Sand Point Way & NE 95th.

SPU is urging customers to make sure storm drains on their street and neighborhood are clear of debris and to call or report any flooding immediately.

To report flooding or blocked drains, please call (206) 386-1800.

Learn more about adopting a city street drain, at: http://www.seattlechannel.org/videos/video.asp?ID=7010819

1/10 Victory Creek Restoration Work Party

Join your neighbors for a few hours in helping to restore Victory Creek by removing invasive plants, mulching, planting native species, cleaning up the litter in the park and caring for this small wonderful native habitat.

Sponsored by Seattle Public Utility Creek Steward Program Project

Everyone is welcome!
The project is teen friendly!

When: Noon – 2 p.m. every second Sunday
January 10th is the second Sunday in January.
Where: Meet at Victory Creek Park – off the QFC parking lot at 105th NE and Roosevelt

Questions or for more information: Eric & Alika Madis, SPU Creek Stewards emadis@juno.com (206) 362-8331

Pinehurst’s AS #1 is off the closure list for Seattle Public Schools

A rebate for missed trash service?

The SLOG says that Seattle Public Utilities is considering a rebate to customers who missed more than two trash collections. Read more here.

Sidewalk Meeting – 1/15

Grab some pizza and refreshments (soda, beer, wine) and join us for a discussion with Paul Fischburg from the City of Seattle about pedestrian safety and the status of the sidewalk issue for 115th, 117th and 8th in the Northgate area (map included). Families welcome!

The recent snow and slush has made this safety issue even more evident. Please come support your neighborhood.

Thursday, January 15th
6:30 p.m.
Amante Pizza and Pasta
12319 Roosevelt Way

Questions: Jane Charles Savarise, 206.931.5131 or e-mail

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New Google Group for Pinehurst Families

Do you want to meet other families with young children in the neighborhood? Meet up for play dates? Join the new Pinehurst Families Google Group here.

Raging against City Light

I try not to complain in this blog. Negativity is rarely productive. However, this morning I am really mad.

Our power went out last night at 9:30 pm. It goes out a lot mainly due to the number of large trees in our part of the neighborhood. And, we are used to waiting patiently for power to come back on.

What is different about last night is that I decided to call in the outage because we had an idea of where it started and thought it might help City Light to know where to look. Bad thought.

I started calling 648-7400 shortly after the outage started. After going through the outage list and confirming that our outage had not been reported, I entered my phone number to indicate an outage at my house. The computer then told me I needed to talk to a real person but that their center was closed and I would need to call 706-0051. I called 706-0051 (and 684-7400 a few times just for kicks) until 11:45 pm when I fell asleep. The 706-0051 line always dropped my calls (by cell and by land line) and 684-7400 went dead when I got to the point where I would make a report.

At 3 am I tried 706-0051 again and was directly connected to a real person – at the water line break hotline. I tried again and got the same person again. He did not have any suggestions of other numbers to try.

I called 706-0051 and 684-7400 again at 5 am. No answer. And, I confirmed that our outage was still not showing as reported on the web and on the outage phone line.

At 6 am I finally got through to real person and one who was taking power (not water) outage reports. He had just had a call about our outage from a neighbor – 5 minutes before me.

The power was back on by 9 am.

Should it really take 8.5 hours to report a power outage?

Help make Jackson Park Trail a reality

We are working on a grant application (due January 12th) that would pay for a professional consultant (likely a landscape design firm) to work with our community to develop a more comprehensive design for Jackson Park Trail. The Seattle Department of Neighborhoods Matching Fund program is very generous and would pay much of the cost for the consultant (estimated to cost between $10,000 and $15,000) if we can match what the city pays in volunteer time and contributions.

You can read more about Jackson Park Trail here. And, you can read more about the Seattle Department of Neighborhoods Matching Fund program here.

We need to raise about $7,500 in volunteer time pledges (at $15/hour) and/or cash contribution pledges.

For folks who can volunteer time, here are some of the ways you could help (timeline, hours):

Steering committee to oversee the project/grant (April to October 2009, a few hours each month)
Committee to select the design firm we would work with (April/May 2009, perhaps 10 hours)
Outreach to get the word out to community members about the project (April to October 2009, a few hours each month with more time in earlier months than in later months)
Attend community meetings soliciting input on the project (June to October, about 2 hours per meeting)

We already have over $2,500 in pledged cash and volunteer time donations. But, to be able to submit the grant, we need $5,000 more in pledges

A volunteer match pledge form is available here. If you are inclined, if you could complete the form and mail (let me know and I will send my address) or e-mail it to me, I would be very grateful.

Thank you for your commitment to our community and don’t hesitate to give a shout if you have any questions.

Graffiti

This is from an older post on crime prevention, but here it is again due to popular demand. Unfortunately, graffiti is on the rise again in Northgate.

Graffiti must be removed within 24 hours. You can report graffiti on public or private property (the City will contact the property owner to remind them that it must be removed within 24 hours) by calling the City’s Graffiti Report Line at (206) 684-7587 or use the Online Report Form. Make a police report to (206) 625-5011 when graffiti appears on your property. If you see an act of graffiti vandalism in progress, call 911 immediately.

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