By Highlands Community Council
The Sunset Area Community Investment Strategy meeting last night gave us a small glimpse at what is planned for the Sunset corridor.
We were able to record a video of the event and also take some pictures of the material presented.
As soon as we have it compiled, we will post a link here for you to review.
Also make note that on September 10, 2009 there will be a Open House and BBQ at the Highlands Community Center for the public to get a glimpse of what work has been done. The City of Renton has not posted it on their web site yet. When they do, we will update this post with a link.
One concern we have is that there have been meetings with “stakeholders” that were not revealed. We will do our best to identify who those “stakeholders” are and what was discussed.
By Highlands Community Council
The Renton City Council will be holding a meeting at the Highlands Neighborhood Center on 8/24/09 at 6:00 p.m. to discuss the Sunset Area Community Investment Strategy.
To date $65,000 has been spent for an outside firm, Mithum, to develop a plan. At this meeting, it is believed we will see a presentation of the plan and next steps on redevelopment along Sunset.
Additional information is available on the City of Renton’s web site.
UPDATE: More information was available as a Public Notice
City of Renton
Renton City Council Special Committee of The Whole Meeting/Workshop
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Renton City Council has set a special Committee of the Whole meeting to be held Monday, August 24, 2009 at 6:00 p.m. at the Highlands Community Center, 800 Edmonds Ave . NE, Renton, to meet jointly with the Renton Housing Authority and Renton School Board members in a workshop to consider the following: Sunset Area Investment Strategy
This is an open public meeting and the public is welcome to attend. No public testimony or Council action will be taken. For information regarding compliance with the American Disabilities Act, and interpretive services for the hearing impaired, contact the City Clerk Office at 425-430-6510.
By Highlands Community Council
How many times have you asked yourself. Why in the world would they put a sidewalk there? It’s the only house on the block that has one.
Dori Monson from KIRO Radio asked the same question.
You can read the Seattle Times story here. The MyNorthwest story is here.
You’ll notice that some of the comments on MyNorthwest.Com talk about throwing out the politicians. The politicians are only part of the problem. Many times it’s not the politicians but the government bureaucrats making these decisions.
By Highlands Community Council
Bernadine Dochnahl, a board member of the Renton Community Foundation and an influential player in the city’s development, took issue with the insult when antidevelopment gadfly Inez Somerville Petersen used the archaic word to slam her. “What a haughty and proud pharisee she is,” Petersen wrote on her blog in April 2007 in response to a gushing profile of Dochnahl in Renton Magazine. In addition, Petersen sent several letters to the editor of the Renton Reporter, criticizing a mall development that Dochnahl supported. In retaliation, Dochnahl and her husband, Dennis Dochnahl, sued Petersen in King County Superior Court for “false, vindictive, malicious, and defamatory statements” and “intentional infliction of emotional distress.”
However, in late February 2009, King County Superior Court judge Laura Gene Middaugh determined the Dochnahls’ suit was “frivolous,” and that while Petersen’s statements were “clearly not flattering opinions about the plaintiffs… they are also clearly opinions.” She added, “Calling someone a ‘pharisee’ is not grounds for a suit.” Judge Middaugh also required the Dochnahls’ attorney, Robert Green, to reimburse Petersen’s counsel, the Buck Law Group, $75,000 in attorney fees. The lawsuit resembled a SLAPP—a “strategic lawsuit against public participation”—according to Petersen attorney Peter Buck. Historically, these suits are filed to keep persnickety citizens, who generally can’t afford attorneys, from tangling in the business of big business and government.
Read the reset of the story in “The Stranger”. Why is the Renton Reporter (Editor Dean Ratford) afraid to print editorial in our local Paper?
