October 12th, 2018
Update on Request for 1st Avenue Bus Lane & Access to Downtown after Viaduct Closure SDOT Interim Director Laird sent a reply to my letter asking SDOT about reserving a dedicated lane for buses on 1st Avenue while the Alaskan Way Viaduct is being removed. WSDOT plans to permanently close the viaduct on January 11, […]
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September 14th, 2018
United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention Calls for the Release of Xiyue Wang This week the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention ruled that Iran’s detention of Xiyue Wang, an United States citizen and University of Washington Alumni imprisoned in Iran since August of 2016, is illegal and arbitrary and that he must […]
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Posted: September 14th, 2018 under
Councilmember Herbold.
Tags:
Alaskan Way Viaduct,
bail reform,
drainage,
SPU,
ST3,
United Nations,
wastewater,
West Seattle,
WSDOT,
Xiyue Wang
July 13th, 2018
Seattle Small Business Survey In continuing its efforts to support Seattle small businesses the Office of Economic Development has designed a survey to ask small business owners across the city what the City can do to better support the success of Seattle small businesses. This information will help OED to prioritize their programs and services, […]
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Posted: July 13th, 2018 under
Councilmember Herbold.
Tags:
Chief of Police,
homelessness response budget,
Light Rail,
Office of Economic Development,
Seattle City Light,
Seattle Public Utilities,
shelter,
small business,
Sound Transit,
West Seattle
May 18th, 2018
Vacant Building Monitoring Program Report You may recall last August the Council passed legislation to make it easier for the City to demolish vacant buildings; I wrote about this legislation at the time. This legislation was one step towards addressing the significant increase in complaints about vacant buildings; between 2013 and 2016 the City saw […]
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Posted: May 18th, 2018 under
Councilmember Herbold.
Tags:
Light Rail,
Madison Middle School,
school,
SDCI,
Sound Generations,
transportation alternatives,
Transportation Coalition,
vacant buildings,
West Seattle,
zoning modification
May 4th, 2018
20 Tenant Households Displaced in Highland Park Last Wednesday, while I was walking from my house to the Highland Park Action Council (HPAC) meeting I noticed one of the large apartment buildings in my neighborhood was boarded up. I didn’t know why that had happened, and because I work hard to keep up on what […]
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April 21st, 2018
Ready to Work Expansion On Monday April 16th I had the opportunity to visit the Ready to Work program’s expansion into District 1. During the 2018 budget I advocated for funding to expand the Ready to Work (RTW) program into West Seattle. Ready to Work is for people who face barriers to employment and need […]
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February 9th, 2018
South Park Like you, I was shocked, saddened, outraged, and worried for the safety of my neighbors when we learned about the shooting of one of our South Park children. Wednesday evening, I was at the Denny/Sealth PTSA Safety meeting at Neighborhood House in High Point when the officers that were the presenting guests were […]
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Posted: February 9th, 2018 under
Councilmember Herbold,
District 1,
Labor Standards,
Sound Transit,
Transportation,
Trees.
Tags:
Amazon,
Light Rail,
SDOT,
Sound Transit,
South Park,
trees,
West Seattle
February 2nd, 2018
Fauntleroy Boulevard Project Update SDOT has announced that they are putting the Fauntleroy Boulevard Project on hold; their announcement says: “Based on community input and continued coordination with Sound Transit, we are putting construction of the Fauntleroy Boulevard Project on hold. This decision responds to community concerns about prolonged construction and effective use of taxpayer […]
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Posted: February 2nd, 2018 under
Councilmember Herbold,
District 1,
Utilities.
Tags:
drainage,
Fauntleroy,
Harvest of Empire,
Hate Free Delridge,
Light Rail,
Pedestrian Master Plan,
rainstorms,
SDOT,
Seattle Public Utilities,
West Seattle,
West Seattle Chamber of Commerce
January 5th, 2018
Schmitz Park Property Acquisition On Monday, years of work finally came to fruition. It was December 2015, just a week after my election was certified, and before I took office when I toured Bruce Stotler’s property on the southeast edge of Schmitz Park. I was joined by the Southwest Historical Society and Forterra (a land […]
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Posted: January 5th, 2018 under
Bus,
Councilmember Herbold,
Housing,
Planning and Land Use,
Sound Transit,
Transportation.
Tags:
Alert Seattle,
bus,
Delridge,
Light Rail,
Mandatory Housing Affordability,
parking,
planning and land use,
Rapid Ride,
Schmitz Park,
small business,
Sound Transit,
University District,
West Seattle
October 13th, 2017
This Week in the Budget The Council began meeting today as the Budget Committee to consider identification of particular budget issues relevant to individual City Departments. Here is the schedule through Tuesday, October 17. Today we discussed Councilmember ideas and budget proposals for each the Office of Planning and Community Development, Seattle Department of Construction […]
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