ALKI ELEMENTARY: District plans May 22nd community meeting about school rebuild

(Rendering of new Alki Elementary)

Just announced by Seattle Public Schools, a community meeting about the impending rebuild of Alki Elementary. It’ll be held in person and online at 7 pm Monday, May 22nd. The district flyer for the meeting says the purpose is:

• Meet the project team
• Learn the latest information
• Find out what we’ve heard from the community
• Ask questions

As reported here Monday, the city has just approved the district’s 9 requested zoning exceptions for the project, which will increase Alki Elementary’s capacity from 300+ students to 500+. The May 22nd meeting will be in the school lunch room (3010 59th SW); the district says the link for online attendance will be published here that day (we’ll add it to our calendar listing and daily preview list when available, too).

Don Brubeck May 10, 2023 (9:27 pm)

The Department of Construction and Inspections Director’s decision to approve the departures from the land use code requirements is appealable. The deadline to appeal is 5:00 pm on May 22. The school district has scheduled their information meeting two hours after that deadline. Another lesson from the district in how to pretend to listen to the community. SDCI report on the decision and information on how to submit an appeal to the Hearing Examiner is here.

Admiral May 11, 2023 (9:48 pm)

TBH I have not followed this close, however I rolled by the school earlier today and note the existing school has parking that were occupied. What is the proposed number of parking stalls with new bigger school?

WSB May 11, 2023 (10:07 pm)

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Admiral May 11, 2023 (10:37 pm)

Zero parking in an area that has little transit service? Don provided the appeal process, zero parking is hard to defend especially since the site is not well served by transit and the existing smaller school provides parking that is used.