At the Move Seattle levy oversight meeting, ped board chair asking how equity considerations get factored into Neighborhood Street Fund projects. The answer is that community interest trumps equity, pretty much, in terms of getting to the final ballot.
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Natalie Bicknell called out this among many issues with the NSF program.
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15th and Columbian comes up. SDOT's Monica DeWald cites tremendous "community pushback" and states that the original applicant "didn't live in the neighborhood." Here was the last proposed change to appease the community:
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It's worth noting that the Move Seattle board did approve that project originally, after it got through the Neighborhood District Council.
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Now it's time for a presentation on 2019 levy projects. Reviewing these projects specifically tonight.
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SDOT plans 6 "vision zero" corridors in 2019 because they didn't complete 3 in 2018. Safe Routes to Schools projects likely will not meet the goal of 32 projects in 2019.
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Additional funds in the sidewalk repair program came during the budget last year, increasing the planned accomplishments in 2019.
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2019 bike projects! For the projects that are *not* getting carried over from 2018, the list is still "secret" until it's presented to council. Pike/pine is on there, so that's probably about it.
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35th Ave NE still not decided, Lorelei Williams from SDOT says the decision *should* be made this month.
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You can view the 2019 list of planned accomplishments here. seattle.gov/Documents/Depa
So what are the implications of not coming close to the SCC resolution calling for the full network by end of 2019?