Wednesday night notes: New survey deadline; vote reminder

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First – the city has decided to extend the deadline for those neighborhood-plan surveys we’ve been talking about here. Now they’ll take surveys through Friday, August 21st. Take the survey here – where you’ll also see the latest neighborhood-vs.-neighborhood chart (Ballard-Crown Hill is singularly ahead but if you add the 5 West Seattle areas together, we’re way out in front with 732 – think we can hit 1,000?). Second – five nights left to get your primary-election ballot into the mail or into a drop box. The county posted its nightly update on how many ballots have come back – it’s up to 11 percent countywide but almost 13 percent in the County Council district including West Seattle (now almost tied for “most votes counted” – just a hair behind the metropolitan Eastside). Still lots of time to prove the “low turnout” projection wrong.

d August 12, 2009 (10:12 pm)

The survey site says that numbers might not be accurate because some responses are not complete.

Can we get clarification on what renders a response incomplete so folks don’t submit responses that won’t be in the final tally.

And, yeah, I totally believe that not only can West Seattleites hit the 1000 mark on the survey with “complete” responses, as soon as we know exactly what that means, I think we’ll exceed it by many. Can we REALLY live with ourselves if BALLARD, of all places, were to make a better showing?

Think about that. Ballard?
Please.

We cannot accept defeat from any other ok

WSB August 12, 2009 (10:18 pm)

That’s a good question. We’ll see if we can find an answer tomorrow. The survey extension was something of a surprise – a neighborhood news editor elsewhere in the city mentioned it on his Twitter feed – no announcement was sent – but I wanted to share the word soon as I discovered it by checking the page myself after seeing his “tweet” … TR

d August 12, 2009 (10:50 pm)

Thanks TR and, please, do excuse the odd cutoff sentence not edited out. Blaming it on the iPhone, as usual:).

chas redmond August 12, 2009 (11:14 pm)

Actually this competition is yielding the city that many more real comments from the neighborhoods – a very clever twist on public outreach, for sure. I’m really surprised at some of the low numbers and where they are – no local blogs?

d August 12, 2009 (11:31 pm)

That’s what I thought as well – no blogs.

WSB August 12, 2009 (11:40 pm)

Every neighborhood has somebody writing something in blog format. The question is whether you have a full-time neighborhood news service.
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Just for fun, because I know this stuff by heart, from the bottom of the chart as it currently exists on the Planning Commission page –

Eastlake:
http://eastlakeave.com
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Pike/Pine is part of Justin’s turf:
http://capitolhillseattle.com
.
“In Belltown” seems to have gone away. But there’s still:
http://belltownmessenger.com/
.
Wallingford:
http://wallyhood.org
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Aurora’s been trying but a little dormant:
http://www.auroraseattle.com/
.
Georgetown’s more a classic “blog” than a news site but a favorite anyway:
http://blogginggeorgetown.com
.
Queen Anne, from the people who brought you My Ballard (and just hired a new editor for the site)
http://queenanneview.com
.
Central Area
http://centraldistrictnews.com
.
Green Lake
http://mygreenlake.com
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And it picks up from there so I’ll stop. Of the majors, we and Capitol Hill Seattle have been around the longest – we started the site in late 2005, CHS started in early 2006 – TR