Highland Park Action Committee: Tonight’s toplines

July 22, 2009 11:58 pm
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(Chair Dan Mullins leading tonight’s HPAC meeting)
Quick notes from tonight’s Highland Park Action Committee meeting – remember, they’ve moved to a new night, fourth Wednesday of each month:

LOW-FLYING PLANES: HPAC has started a committee to look at whether general-aviation planes headed to Boeing Field are flying too low over Highland Park. Some are concerned that suggested flight paths and FAA guidelines aren’t being followed. The committee will report next month on what it’s found.

PEDESTRIAN SAFETY: The HPAC committee looking at this is continuing to work on making it safer for people to cross SW Holden right by the Highland Park Improvement Club building where HPAC meets.

CRIME STATS: Officer Adonis Topacio brought his monthly update. He says illicit activity at Westcrest Park remains an ongoing concern. In the past four weeks, there’ve been 9 car prowls, 10 burglaries, and 5 auto thefts in the general Highland Park/South Delridge area. One attendee expressed concern about someone knocking on doors at midnight one night last week and wondered when it’s OK to call 911 (police’s answer is always, better safe than sorry, if it’s suspicious and it’s happening now, call). The unsolved South Park stabbings came up, with questions about burglarproofing your home; Officer Topacio reiterated that windows and doors should stay locked and closed.

HIGHLAND PARK WADING POOL: A question came up about why it hasn’t been opened yet this season. (As first reported here two months ago, the city decided 11 of the city’s 25 wading pools would not be put into use this year because the Parks Department hasn’t finished federally mandated drain-safety retrofits; the HP pool is one of the 11.)

JAIL SITE FIGHT: HPAC chair Dan Mullins says nothing’s going on but the long-running environmental-evaluation process. (It’s now been 14 months since Highland Park Action Committee has been fighting against the possible siting of a new municipal misdemeanor-offender jail in the area; check our coverage archive here.)

HPAC also heard a presentation about the mega-important Neighborhood Plan Status Check meeting coming up next Tuesday, July 28, 6 pm at Delridge Community Center (Highland Park is one of the five West Seattle neighborhoods with an official plan); more on that in our next story.

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