Many of us came because we were upset that we found out about a rezone of our neighborhood after it was underway and going to be discussed with the Seattle City Council’s land use committee today.

Most of us only brought pitchforks, but Rob Fellows was thoughtful enough to bring two motions to the meeting. Formally, Motion #2 was voted in unanimously by the citizens last night:

The Greenwood Community Council believes the City Council should set a high burden of proof on proponents of current or future legislative zoning changes to demonstrate community support for their proposal, and the notify those impacted by the change. Since those conditions have not been met for current comprehensive plan and zoning changes on the south side of N 87th St., the north side of N 87th St. and the est side of 3rd Ave. NW in Greenwood, we oppose city council action to adopt changes to the future land use map in the comprehensive plan, as well as any proposed changes in the zoning code for those areas at this time.

Other highlights:

• Trevor is a member of GGDDAG and president of the GCC
• Gary Brunt was present (represents Fred Meyer’s land owner)
• GCC stated that rezone was in good faith and had nothing to do with Fred Meyer project
• Bob Morenzy(?) talked about property tax concerns, stating that a $124k lot could get a tax bill for $500k in a short timeframe
• Barbara L Shale from local government brought some tax info and stated it would take years for property values to rise. She stated a bunch of other stuff that board me to tears, because I don’t understand taxes
• Generally there was no support for a Single Family to L3 rezone
• The GCC needs more members and board members

The second item on the Agenda was to discuss a new Greenwood Park. This will be discussed at the next meeting.

These GCC meetings are every third Tuesday of the month at the Greenwood Library. It’s important that we start attending these meetings and I’m going to make an effort to go to them as well as notify people that they are happening. Heck, we can get a beer at Naked City Taphouse afterwords… Civic duty has its rewards.

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