On Sunday evening, May 1st, a sinkhole opened up on the parking strip in front of a house at 6211 12th Ave NE. The sinkhole was shown to be in the area of tunneling for light rail construction, in the vicinity of the Roosevelt station work. Here is a report from the Seattle Transit Blog.
The WCC is currently remaining neutral in the midst of a legislative rezone in Roosevelt as part of a neighborhood plan update. Read More …
Not able to make it to tonight’s (9/19) public hearing at 6PM in Roosevelt High School’s auditorium on the proposed Roosevelt legislative rezone? There will be plenty of tweets to follow: Councilmember Sally Clark tweeted earlier today: Planning to tweet at the Roosevelt Rezone public hearing tonight (6pm, RHS Theatre)? Neighbors are using hashtag #RRzone Also, according to the RavennaBlog (a fantastic hyperlocal blog by the way) has all the different sides represented via twitter: For those of you who cannot attend, you have three live-tweeters to choose from: Us (@RavennaBlog), the Roosevelt Neighborhood Blog (@Roosiehood), and one of Seattle Read More …
Sound Transit’s North Link Project is well underway with site planning and subsurface explorations occurring along the project corridor. The North Link is a 4.3 mile extension of the existing Link light rail system extending from University Link reach, which extends from the downtown bus tunnel through Capitol Hill to the University of Washington (currently under construction), to the North Corridor Project connecting Lynnwood. There are 3 stations as part of the North Link project, the closest to most Wedgwoodians will be located in Roosevelt along 12th Avenue NE. Sound Transit is hosting Spring Open Houses for the 3 stations Read More …