Seattle annexing White Center? Toplines from today’s briefing

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For those interested in Mayor McGinn’s push for a White Center vote this November on annexing to Seattle (as reported here last Wednesday) – the City Council briefing has wrapped up, and we’re writing up toplines as fast as we can on partner site White Center Now – see the story here. The timeline laid out this morning is: First the council would vote March 8 on indicating an interest in the November vote – but wouldn’t have to commit to it till August; in the meantime, the rest of the process – including the state/county Boundary Review Board – proceeds. Next step, prior to the hoped-for March 8 vote, would be a February 19 hearing before the Development/Sustainability committee chaired by Council President Richard Conlin. ADDED 1:51 PM: Just got the requested copy of the PowerPoint presented at today’s briefing – converted it to PDF and you can see it here.

dsa February 1, 2010 (9:16 pm)

What area is being considered? Looking at the powerpoint presentation, is it the White Center / Beverly Park area or *all* of the area in white?

WSB February 1, 2010 (9:19 pm)

The only map I remember from the PPT is the one from the proposal several years ago, before the North Highline South Annexation to Burien. A current map is the top part of the blue-outlined zone here:
http://your.kingcounty.gov/annex/nhighline.aspx

dsa February 1, 2010 (10:33 pm)

Thanks WSB, that link, http://your.kingcounty.gov/annex/nhighline.aspx shows the same as the whole white area in the other one.

So instead of just White Center it sounds like this deal is also about Beverly Park, Salmon Creek, Boulevard Park, Duwamish and South Park with the exception of the South Park Bridge.

laurie February 2, 2010 (4:24 pm)

Yuk – let Burien take it into their municipal fold – we should annex a region that adds to the base not takes from it with overwhelming social problems.

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