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Green Infrastructure Plan for Southeast Seattle

Great City will host an interdisciplinary effort to plan for strategic improvements to Southeast Seattle’s green infrastructure network—its parks, open space, natural drainage, ped/bike mobility, community gardens, urban forest, and more. We will reach out to City of Seattle departments, the University of Washington, civic and environmental organizations, and citizens to bring their complementary capabilities and resources to the table.

The plan will be holistic, overlaying and identifying synergies among the diverse systems for which planning has already occurred or is underway. Materials to review and synthesize will include the Olmsted Plan, Seattle Parks’ Gap Analysis, Open Space Seattle 2100, Bands of Green, Restore Our Waters, Urban Forest Management Plan, Bicycle Master Plan, Pedestrian Master Plan, and neighborhood plans, among others. These diverse resources will be put on a common gameboard where connections between City programs and citizen desires can be made more apparent.|

The plan will be opportunistic, addressing landscape and community needs with strategic solutions that will complement and support station area and neighborhood planning. We will not reinvent the wheel in terms of new data collection, but will instead build on the foundation of existing plans to craft a  framework for projects and policies with the potential to serve multiple functions. Existing and future open space and infrastructure investments can be more efficiently and elegantly deployed. We will articulate strong green bones around which a healthy and vibrant Southeast Seattle can grow in the coming decades.

The plan will be inclusive, reaching out to a part of Seattle that has been underserved from a green infrastructure perspective. Building on the success of Great City’s grassroots parks levy campaign, we will apply innovative planning tools and cultivate leadership around key issues and specific places. We can engage many more people by building a coherent and meaningful scaffold for participation rather than a top-down planning approach. As we did with the parks campaign, we will facilitate and coordinate our
outreach at local events through a lively and interactive online forum. Participants will be invited to become local leaders and carry the process deeper into their communities.

Great City envisions a one-year campaign, online and neighbor to neighbor, where existing plan priorities and participant suggestions can be added to a growing interactive map and dialog. From this thick territory of potential partnerships, the Green Infrastructure Committee and its partners will distill and display projects and policies that reflect an integrated, high performance approach. The overall vision for Southeast Seattle’s green infrastructure network and its most catalytic projects will be illustrated and promoted across our web of professional, governmental, academic, and media outlets.

Questions or Comments, please contact:
Nate Cormier, ASLA, LEED AP
Green Infrastructure Committee Chair
(e) natec@svrdesign.com (o) 206.223.0326 (c) 206.218.4097