Happening tonight: Park planning, crime-fighting

2 of the 11 West Seattle events for today/tonight that you’ll find (along with dozens of other events for the rest of the month and way beyond) on the WSB Events page:

MORGAN JUNCTION PARK: 7 pm tonight at The Kenney. It’s the first public meeting in almost a year on the park-to-be that’s going in next to the new Beveridge Place Pub (former Video Vault). According to the official city news release, this will be a chance for you “to review preliminary site plans and to provide feedback to the design team.” Notes from the last public meeting in March ’07 are on the Morgan Community Association website.

WEST SEATTLE COMMUNITY SAFETY PARTNERSHIP: 7 pm, Southwest Precinct. If you have crime/safety concerns in your neighborhood, or don’t have them yet and want to keep it that way, the WSCSP meeting is a great one to attend. Not only do Seattle Police reps (including members of the SW Precinct’s Community Police Team) attend and present updates on what they’re seeing and hearing, community organizers such as the group’s Seattle Neighborhood Group staff liaison Lois Grammon-Simpson present information on topics such as what to do about “nuisance properties” and what’s being done about some already reported. (As you’ll see in the notes from the last meeting in November.)

4 Replies to "Happening tonight: Park planning, crime-fighting"

  • Venkat January 15, 2008 (10:41 am)

    I’m excited to watch how this development affects our end of WS, which has been dying for a retail boost for a while!

  • coffee geek January 15, 2008 (10:52 am)

    A pipeline of Manny’s from the BP to a fountain in the new park would suit me just fine. ;)

  • Ken January 15, 2008 (11:40 am)

    Crime Statistics: from the census data:
    http://www.sngi.org/pdfs/cluster3final62407.pdf

    Rate of Total Part I crime (murder, rape, robbery, aggravated and non-aggravated assault, burglary, theft,
    auto theft and arson): 63 per 1000 residents with tract 107 (46 per 1000) having the lowest rate. This is most
    noteworthy. In spite of its poverty, tract 107 has the lowest rate of serious crime among all tracts in Cluster
    3. Tract 114 has the highest crime rate (108 per 1000) within this cluster.

    Note cluster 3, tract 107 is where lots of new Highpoint Homeowners will profess how scared they are of brown people at the meeting.
    Take a few grains of salt for them.

    Look up your neighborhood stats:
    http://web1.seattle.gov/seastats/doStatistics.aspx

  • Ron Burgundy January 15, 2008 (1:02 pm)

    I can hardly wait to watch my kids at play while enjoying a beer from what looks like a patio at the new BPP. :)

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