A Community News Website for Broadview
Our neighbors have worked hard to improve our streets. We are competing with other neighborhoods for funding special projects. Please take the time to vote and support Broadview. Thank you.
You can vote online — takes just 2 minutes.
Anyone over 11 can vote as long as they live/work/go to school in the district. (age 13 and older online voting)
Project #18-520: Traffic Calming at 1st Ave NW & N 137th St
Neighborhood: Broadview
Night Out is a national event promoted in Seattle by Seattle Police Department Crime Prevention. It is designed to heighten crime prevention awareness, increase neighborhood support in anti-crime efforts, and unite our communities.
Register for the event
To participate in Night Out and to have your street closed for the event, you must officially register your Night Out event with the City of Seattle.
Registration is open until 5:00PM Monday August 6, 2018
If you do not live on an arterial street and you do not close your intersection, you are welcome to close the street to traffic for your Night Out Celebration. Indicate on the registration form that you plan to close the street. Individual blocks are responsible for providing barricades. On the registration form please mark not only the street name but also the hundred block of the street.
Broadview-Bitter Lake Community Meeting
Next Tuesday – June 19, 2018
The June community meeting for Broadview-Bitter Lake promises up-to-date information about projects underway in your neighborhood. 
We will:
take action for Aurora Ave safety,
learn how to vote for local street safety projects,
hear reports about neighbor-supported projects, and
consider details about a tree protection ordinance being considered by the city council.
We meet in the basement fellowship hall at Broadview UCC at 325 N 125th, 98133. There is a ramp for access.
Doors open at 6:30 pm for social time and set up. The reports, presentations, and discussion start at 7:00 pm and usually finish at 8:30
Over the past few months, a team of KUOW reporters has explored the impact of growth along Highway 99 from North Seattle down to Tukwila. Reporter Joshua McNichols told Kim Malcolm why they followed this road and what they learned along the way.
In response to profound congestion, many cities and neighborhoods in our region are trying to find ways to add new people without adding more cars to the roads. Because there’s no room for more cars. Some strategies cities are trying out include new apartment buildings without parking spaces, prioritization of buses over cars and more space for pedestrians and bikes.
That makes old 99 a fascinating place to visit, because it’s most closely tied to the more established car-oriented patterns of organization. The neighborhoods along 99 have highways at their centers, rather than main streets. If this cultural shift away from cars can take root there, it can take place anywhere. It’s the same impulse that draws scientists to study life in extreme locations like a volcanic vent at the bottom of the ocean.
Any surprises along the way?
It’s surprising how different the source of the changes are in each place. On Aurora Avenue North, it’s bottom up. You have regular people saying, we’d love to have a different kind of neighborhood here.
In Tukwila, you have the full weight of city leadership adding momentum to that movement. And there, they’ve accomplished a lot more. I wasn’t aware of how much more until I spent a lot of time there.
For example in North Seattle, the state is resurfacing Aurora this summer and the city had a chance to take advantage of that work – to simultaneously improve the sidewalks at the same time. Carolyn Adolph did a story on this. And although the city’s adding a few tiny improvements, they largely passed up the opportunity to make big improvements – for at least another 10 years until the street gets resurfaced again.
Contrast this to Tukwila, where leaders have been pushing and pushing for changes since before they even had the power to do so. They took control of highway 99from the state through legislative action, they raided and seized crime ridden motels and tore them down, and they sold the land to developers who would build catalyst projects that would change how people think about the road.
If there’s a moral to this story about Highway 99, what is it?
I think the moral is, inclusive growth is really hard. And personally I’m still looking for what that would look like. In the Seattle Metro region that we’re building, as we reshape where people live and how they can move around, I’m wondering, are we building it so that everyone can live here? Or are we building it so that people with money can have the city that they want.
In Tukwila and Aurora, we saw two communities talking about growing inclusively, growing without pushing people further and further out. But there are these small decisions you can make, as a city official, as a neighborhood activist, along the way, on whether to include the voices of people who may have less time and resources to go to community meetings. And while all the talk of inclusion is good, it’s the weight of the development micro-aggressions that decides in the end whether minorities and low income communities can have a place in the new urbanist dreamland that we’re building.
Seattle Public Utilities recently announced some upcoming drainage work on the west side of Broadview. Their message is below.
Dear Broadview Neighbor,
You may recall, early this year we reached out to launch the 12th Avenue NW Basin Drainage Project. Since we last were in touch, we’ve been digging into the data to see where installing natural drainage systems (NDS) might work best in the 12th Avenue NW Basin. You can learn more about NDS on our project webpage. If you want to receive updates about this project specifically, we recommend signing up for our 12th Avenue NW Basin project email through our website.
What are natural drainage systems?
NDS are engineered facilities that mimic nature by slowing or reducing stormwater runoff close to its source (streets, rooftops and parking lots). NDS also cleans stormwater runoff by filtering it before it harms our waterways.
What’s happening now?
Earlier this year, our project team completed a desktop analysis to identify potential blocks in the neighborhood where NDS might be feasible. Over the next few months, you may see crews conducting surveys and evaluating soils. We anticipate minimal disruption in the neighborhood during early geotechnical exploration activities.
We will also be mailing a survey to residents and property owners along these identified blocks to share information about the improvements and collect input on natural drainage systems. If you receive the survey in the mail, we hope you take a few minutes to complete and return it – your feedback will inform our design improvements in your neighborhood.
Next steps for identifying where NDS will be installed
Later this summer, we’ll work to narrow down the number of blocks to a select few so we can move into design. We’ll be using several criteria to help whittle down to the final block selection, including: feedback from neighbors, whether the block meets technical requirements (size, ability to infiltrate water, constructability, etc.), cost-benefit, and possible opportunities for additional benefits. Throughout the siting process, we will keep you updated on progress and engage you for specific feedback. Stay tuned!
Conveyance improvements through new pipes – more to come
In addition to NDS, which might be considered “green” infrastructure, we are also planning to design and construct “gray” infrastructure – underground pipes – to help move water through the 12th Avenue NW basin. These pipes are planned to be installed on NW 125th Street from 6th Avenue NW to 10th Avenue NW, on 10th Avenue NW from NW 125th to NW 122nd St, along NW 122nd Street from 10th Avenue NW to 11th Avenue NW, and then along 11th Avenue NW from NW 122nd Street to NW 120th Street (see below map). We are in early design of these improvements and will share more information in the future.
Stay connected
Thanks for your time. We look forward to working with you soon.
Warm regards,
Broadview Sewer and Drainage Improvement Project Team
206-409-3651
Here are a few outside activities and opportunities to volunteer in our neighborhood park, Carkeek. Maybe think about involving your kids.
forestry class
Camp Fire hosts a few weeks of day camp at Carkeek and was wondering if it were possible to post something to get the word out that we are looking for community volunteers to help with our Day Camp program at Carkeek Park. We are especially looking for adult volunteers and have a few paid positions as well. The day camps run weekly from July 9th to August 3rd. Any help would be much appreciated and more information can be found at our website: campfireseattle.org or https://campfireseattle.org/camp-fire-day-camps/volunteer-at-day-camp/
The volunteers at Carkeek Watershed Community Action Project invite you to the event below.
Join the volunteers at the Imprint Pond on Saturday, May 12 at 7:45 PM for our final salmon release of Spring 2018. 38,000 fish will be released into Venema Creek which joins Pipers Pipers Creek which drains to Puget Sound. Tip: since the release is at dusk (not dark), bring a flashlight to help see the fish in the creek.
Salmon will continue to be fed 3 times per day, 7 days per week until then. Please come by with family and friends to learn a bit, tell stories, and help feed the fish. Salmon Imprint Stewards are at the park in the mornings, mid-days, and evenings for 30-60 minutes to feed and do maintenance. Stop by when you see the Feeding Salmon Fry sign at the trail head up to the Imprint Pond.
To recap:
30,000 salmon eggs hatched and self-released by the 3rd week in March
35,000 salmon fry were imprinted and fed and released on February 2, 2018
35,000 salmon fry plus about 3,000 school-raised fish will be released on Saturday, May 12, 2018
Thank you Suquamish Tribe, fishers and stewards. Thank you for all the fish!
Thank you Salmon in the Schools! So cool, so awesome, so connected to our communities.
Thank you Seattle Parks for our space and your support!
Thank you Seattle Public Utilities for continuing your obligation to protect our waters. SPU uses our waterways to convey surface waters out of our neighborhoods. Help us all by protecting our waters in your community.
Thank you CWCAP Salmon Imprint Stewards! Your care for all of these fish and your willingness to spread your stewardship is priceless.
Imagine if all power and normal communications were down – what would you do?
Come see what your community is doing to be prepared. Join us in a simulated full city power outage field exercise of the Seattle Emergency Communications Hubs and the Seattle Auxiliary Communication Service
April 28, 2018 9:00 am – noon
Join us as a participant or a volunteer!
Broadview Prepares Hub location:
Luther Memorial Church 13047 Greenwood Ave. N
On lawn on Greenwood side of church 
