Many of us took part in the City's 2-year planning effort to develop a vision for the future of our neighborhood.
You can read the results of our efforts: Central Area Neighborhood Plan.

Here's a report (from 2002/3) on plan-related activities in our area and here's the City's plan priorities for the Central Area in 2004: our entry in that table ("Implement a left turn lane from 23rd Avenue onto Madison going west bound") has yet to happen.

The main thrust of the "Madison Miller" plan was the revitalization of East Madison Street in our neighborhood.

Here's a chart, supplied by the City's Strategic Planning Office, during their visit our Sept. 5, 2000 meeting, showing that we've already reached 50% of our 20 year projected growth after only 5 years (and that doesn't include several projects in the planning stage). The Strategic Planning Office listened patiently to all our concerns about the changes in the neighborhood caused by overfast growth: here's their feedback, explaining what they've done and what we should do.

In answer to my concerns about the "gentrification" of our neighborhood (it'll eventually be only low-income [CHHIP} or new condo's), they pointed me to the City's Property Tax Exemption program, as a way to stimulate mid- to low- income housing developments. (After much lobbying, the Madison Street area was made part of the 2nd round of that program: LINKS to fllow)

In an attempt to keep track of all the changes  I present the:

East Madison Street redevelopment web page

and also: other neighborhood building projects  (i.e. neighborhood building projects not on Madison).

Important enough to our neighborhood that they were the subject of a recent neighborhood meeting and now  have a web page of their own!  We're hoping to extend the Capitol Hill Residential Parking Zone into our neighborhood.

The summer edition of Seattle Transportation's Neighborhood Traffic Calming Newsletter, the Neighbors' Gardening Circular, is available online at . It is chock-full of resources and helpful information for those who are interested in
neighborhood improvement through right-of-way gardening and tree planting. Stewards of traffic circles, chicanes or other traffic calming devices, who have not recently been in contact with SeaTran's Landscape Services Division, can write to noel.studer@ci.seattle.wa.us to join the newsletter mailing list.