Sustainable Crown Hill Minutes
April 6, 2008


Announcements:

  • 2008 Crown Hill business directory came out last week. It was mailed inside of the Journal newspaper; look for it in your mail. Cinny did the artwork on the cover.
  • Saturday, April 19, from 9 a.m. to 2: p.m. will be Crown Hill Spring cleaning day. People can meet at Petco at 9 a.m. and determine where to go from there.
  • Saturday, April 19 from 7 to 10 p.m. the Crown Hill Fund Raising Project will be take place at the Crown Hill school. Tickets are $20 in advance and $30 at the door.
  • Next Saturday, April 12, is the Green Festival at the convention center. You can find information at greenfestivals.org. Bert highly recommended listening to Mark Lakeman on Sunday afternoon. He is a speaker from City Repair in Portland, and he speaks on reclaiming the streets for walkability and educating us on how city grids are developed.
  • Crown Hill Business Association: has submitted a proposal for approximately $15,000 to fund several projects. They will find out how much money they will receive in approximately 2 weeks. The proposed projects are:
    • three locations for murals in the Crown Hill Business district
    • The addition of benches in the business district.
    • Tree well improvements
    • a Waiting for the Mono Rail sculpture.
    • The target areas for in these additions will be between 80th and 90th Avenues Northwest.
  • There is a proposal for a bus shelter at 85th St and 15th Ave. Northwest. Funding approval will be determined in about a week.
  • The city will donate trash and recycle bins for the Crown Hill Business district, locations need to be determined. They cannot be affiliated with the bus stop or a business. Metro provides trash cans only at bus shelters.
  • It was discussed that there is a group at 85th St and 13th Ave. Northwest that wants a pedestrian safety crosswalk.
  • It was discussed that there are panels set up a long streets in Seattle to determine the mean speed on arterials. Some panels are on Holman Rd.
  • This Thursday, April 10, at 7 p.m.. There will be as meeting at Small Faces, regarding dealing with the trash left at Value Village.
  • April 29, from 6 to 9 p.m., Sustainable Ballard and Balle, will be sponsoring a fair on eating locally. Look up Eat Local Now.
  • Crown Hill Neighborhood Association garage sale will be in July.

Agenda Items:

  • Dennis Galvin is working on getting a mail list set up with Wiser Earth. Crown Hill Neighborhood Association will be getting a new web host in about a month; Dennis would like there to be a way for individuals to post for-sale or giveaway items, or other announcements.
  • Jen Smith gave a report on the community meetings this past week regarding the architectural plans for the school to become a community center, and for the park design. The meetings went well with a great representation of the different groups, and Tim Gallagher, the director of city parks gave a presentation on his perspectives.
  • It was discussed that there is a large lot between 70th and 75th St and 9th Ave that will be developed into a green space.
  • Bert Hopkins: Walkable Crown Hill: We are waiting to have a contract signed with the city finalized. He hopes to be able to send out the RFP at the end of next week for contractors. We have a six month project deadline once the contract is signed. He hopes to have the design charettes happen at the end of May and beginning in June. There is some work that needs to be done prior to the charrettes:
  1. Community surveys: we need to have volunteers that will go door-to-door to do surveys and to invite neighbors to participate in the charrettes.
  2. Department of Transportation: we need volunteers to do speed and volume residential streets. At the bare minimum, we would like to do volume checks.
  3. Need direct person-to-person invitations to participate in the three charrettes.
  4. Next Walkable Crown Hill meeting: Sunday, April 20, 4 to 6 p.m.
  • Carol Barber (in absence): The following two projects have not been initiated due to her injury, but she is still wanting to work on them:
    1. Negotiating with QFC about having reusable bags.
    2. A movie night
  • Mark Mendonca: Urban Gardeners
    1. The urban gardeners had their first work party helping Carol Barber, taking up tree roots and turning soil; it was a lot of fun and very successful.
    2. Jason and Lanae are making plans for their garden beds. They have 4500 square feet for a community garden.
    3. Other projects that people discuss they want to do are: Cinny: putting in a raised garden bed; Cinny: a chicken coop; Bert: will be plastering a cob oven in June or July; Lanae: would like help with raised beds and establishing the community garden. Bob mentioned again that he has greenhouse building material available to be used for construction of greenhouse.
    4. The tilth sale will be the beginning of May.
    5. Lanae announced that she has lots of extra starts for various vegetables.
    6. Bridget from Sustainable Ballard: is looking at doing an order for water catchments and solar water heaters. The water catchments include both barrels and cisterns. Eco-builders are involved with the design of these items. Contact Mark if you want more information.
  • Carol Kennedy.
    1. 9076 Holman Rd.: Matt Driscoll,, the architect was not available to meet on April 18. A small group of involved citizens did meet and determined citizens’s priorities for the project. A neighbor of the project also mentioned that the developer is Mark Wolf, and he did attend the early design review meeting. It was suggested that Mark be invited to attend the meetings with the neighborhood group and the architect. They are hoping that a meeting will be set up at the end of April, but that has not been determined.
    2. Seattle Pedestrian Master Use Plan: This is agenda item at the Ballard District Council meeting this Wednesday at 7 p.m. Carol is unsure if she would be able to attend and asked for other volunteers.
  • Jen Smith announced that the architects design will have another meeting to receive input on their designs for the school to be a community center this Tuesday, April 8th, 7 p.m. at the school.
  • Danielle LaVilla
    1. Bought a huge bolt of fabric that can be made into reusable bags. She said that there was an artist that did silkscreening for Sustainable Ballard and asked if our group was interested in having this service. There was a strong vote in the affirmative.
    2. Danielle had read in Conscious Choice that there is a group putting together green cleaning parties: this is getting people together to make green cleaning solutions. It was suggested that this could be the first movie night since there is a video involved in the kit on how to make solutions.
    3. Lanae said that the Abundant Life Church is available for sewing projects, or the movie night. Steps for making the reusable bags are 1. Bag design, 2. Cut the fabric, 3. Silkscreening artwork, 4. Sewing the bags. Danielle will follow up with talking with the artist.
    4. Cinny said that she has an interest in making the bags out of rice and soy beverage boxes.

Next meeting:
Sarah LaVilla’s condo meeting room.
9023 Mary Ave.
Sunday, May 4, 2008
5 to 5:30 p.m.: Potluck
5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.: Meeting

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