One of the Seattle Parks West Seattle initiatives talked about briefly throughout Monday night time’s on-line assembly was the peninsula’s future second canine park (aka Off-Leash Area). This was the primary update since Parks introduced earlier this 12 months that that they had narrowed the choices to Lincoln Park and an space south of West Seattle Stadium (under are graphics from that June announcement):
Without elaboration, the update Monday night time was that the stadium-vicinity website may not be as “viable” due to a “complication” associated to “electrification.” We subsequently requested Parks for particulars. Here’s the reply:
There is a attainable FAS [Department of Finance and Administrative Services] undertaking to create a public and City fast-electric charging station at the moment, which could possibly be used to help our transition to electrified golf carts at that website and different metropolis mandated fleet operations. That undertaking continues to be in its early phases and may have the house studied at West Seattle Stadium as a attainable location for an off-leash space.
So, we requested, if the stadium-vicinity website is dominated out, does that imply Lincoln Park turns into the selection, or would different areas be introduced again into consideration? That reply:
Nothing is a achieved deal, however as famous the highest two beneficial websites for the canine park in West Seattle primarily based on neighborhood enter and inside assessments are West Seattle Stadium and Lincoln Park. The elements in these alternatives are:
-Not battle with present park makes use of in a means that creates issues of safety
-Not be positioned in a park that could be a designated Seattle landmark, or be listed on the State or Federal register of historic locations
-Not be positioned in pure areas underneath energetic restoration, or in an environmentally-critical space
-Have preliminary approval from the positioning proprietor, if not on Parks land
-Other concerns listed under
*Geographic Need
*Site should be Accessible (or a plan should be created to make it accessible)
*Site should not have vital vegetation and huge timber
*Proposed website should be at the least 50 ft. away from different property strains
*Flat websites are most well-liked to slopes, as a result of surfacing erodes over time on slopesOur aim is to stick to the timeline introduced (Monday) night time and update the neighborhood as quickly as we’ve extra data on the Off Leash Dog Park research.
That timeline mentioned that Parks employees would work on a advice in December and that it might be introduced to the Board of Parks and Recreation Commissioners early subsequent 12 months. As noted previoudlythe division additionally studied attainable West Seattle dog-park websites at Me-For-Mooks, Hamilton Viewpointand Delridge Community Center
