Saturday, March 31st, 2007   
HIGHLAND PARK NEIGHBORHOOD SUMMIT
BREAKOUT GROUPS
We have listed our "action items" and volunteers for those items, using notes.
If you have corrections, or more accurate details, please contact Dina, Web Goddess

YOUTH, SOCIAL ACTIVITIES
AND DIVERSITY

Bridging the Gap: Generational, Cultural, etc.
(Darlene)

  • Mentorship Program for juvenile offenders:
    - Find Taggers and help them do murals
    - Work with Juvenile Hall on 12th Ave.
    Monica (murals) & John (juggling)
  • Culture Swap
    - Organize festivals, potlucks, etc.
    - "Bite of Highland Park"- encourage diverse cultures
    - Contacts through churches, schools, streets, and word of mouth (Julie)
  • Adopt-a-Block outreach (Diane, Billy & Carolyn)
  • Outreach and recruitment to children in the neighborhood
    - Determine youth needs and interests, then develop programs
    - Get Parental "buy-in"
    - Build the relationships with youth (Steve and Sean)
  • Sponsor a sports team
  • Big Brothers/Big Sisters Program needs mentors at Highland Park Elementary School
    - Possible expansion into middle school
    (Dina)
  • Increase safety in neighborhood
    - block watch
    - Organized community march with PR
    (Timothy)
  • Outdoor Activities and Recreation
    - Utilize the open space and greenbelt for outdoor activities (Becca)
  • We need a facility in order to develop programs
  • Arts Council (Billy, Diane, Monica, Dina)

CLEANUP

  • Form an "Ivy Removal" group
  • Talk to store owner on 9th and Henderson to paint his building (Myrtle)
  • Ask Seattle Dept of Transportation (SDOT) to maintain and improve Highland Park Way & add sidewalks on west side. (K.B.)
  • Contact parks foundation for Highland Park Way (Adam)
  • Identify "Clean and Green" day projects and issues.

 

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
AND DIVERSITY

We noted a lack of community-building venues.

  • What should the neighborhood look like in 10 years?
  • Incorporate low income housing.
  • Need new businesses in Delridge that people can walk to - such as restaurants or coffee shops
  • Need stores within walking distance.
  • Community College, Heart of Riverview - an urban plan.
  • Zoning to provide development for businesses, parking.
  • Watch for the Department of Planning and Development (DPD) signs to go up and monitor the DPD website. Determine the impact area and activate the neighbors that it will affect to comment on it. (Ron volunteered to do this for the community.) Possibly post them on the HIGHLANDPK.NET website.
  • Get the Highland Park Neighborhood Development plan written 10 years ago in the hands of more people. The city is in the process of reviewing it.
    (Ken will do this)
  • Find new venture capitol to purchase existing businesses and redevelop them.
  • Work with the South Seattle Community College on a development plan.
  • Have someone come from the Delridge Neighborhoods Development Assn. and give a presentation.

TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORTATION

  • Build a new traffic circle at the intersections of 10th and Kenyon and 10th and Elmgrove. (Mark and Carolyn and Billy)
  • Traffic calming at 9th and Henderson. Find out what the requirements are from the city. (Ruth)
  • We have the potential to do our own sidewalk repair in front of the Highland Park Improvement Club. (Ruth's husband Jeff and Greg)
  • Holes left from the restoration of light poles needs to be addressed by City Light. (HPIC can write a letter - Greg)
  • Sylvan Way closures - get info from city. (Cindi)
  • 16th Ave paving north of the Community College. Coordinate with Delridge. Can this be proposed as a capitol improvement project? (Jane)
  • Contact Mayor to maintain Highland Park Way. Learn more about "Bridging the Gap" funds for street improvement, sidewalk.
  • Trees on 8th Ave removed from the parking strip?
  • Teach class on pruning. (Rory)
WEBSITE NETWORKING POSSIBILITIES:
How could the HPAC website be used to help these projects?

YOUTH, DIVERSITY:

  • Advertise special events such as neighborhood potluck day, or block watch eves.
  • Have people post creative ideas on the site
  • Allow Arts Council and young artists a photo gallery page
  • Show creative works in progress, such as murals

CLEANUP:

  • Tool exchange co-op for cleanup crews, such as pruning shears, shovels, wheelbarrows
  • Publicize Cleanup days and projects, recruit volunteers
  • Display before-and-after pictures
  • Advertise fruit trees to be harvested

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

  • Advertise grants and other funds available for development
  • Propose ideas for grants projects, including drawings

TRAFFIC

  • Identify areas needing improvement

eMail Web Goddess, Dina with other ideas.

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