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Recap of the August 2015 E-G Neighborhood Council Meeting

Recap of the August 2015 E-G Neighborhood Council Meeting

Typically the Emerson-Garfield Neighborhood Council holds a very casual meeting with a light agenda after the neighborhood’s Summer Potluck, and this year was no different. However, owing to shifts in the annual Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) deadlines, the agenda included preliminary decisions on how the neighborhood intended to allocate its $56,299 for 2016. Here’s a brief recap of some of the discussion and decisions from the August 12, 2015 neighborhood council meeting. (Click here for a photo gallery from the potluck.) Because the proposal due August…

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Photos from the 2015 Neighborhood Summer Potluck

Photos from the 2015 Neighborhood Summer Potluck

Here’s a gallery of photos of the recent neighborhood Summer Potluck that took place in Corbin Park on August 12, 2015. We’re grateful to Jonathan Martinez for taking time out to snap and send them! Tomorrow we’ll be posting a recap of the Emerson-Garfield Neighborhood Council meeting that followed the potluck.

Register Now for Free Trees

Register Now for Free Trees

The Residential Tree Program — also known as “Wow! Free trees!” — proved to be incredibly popular here in Emerson-Garfield this past spring, so we wanted to let everyone know that there’s going to be an autumn distribution too. Registrations to claim free trees opened last week and run until the first week of October. They’ve done such a good job of explaining the details of the Residential Tree Program over on the City’s website that we’ve re-posted their announcement below (with some…

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Request for Comments: 1728 & 1730 W Buckeye

Request for Comments: 1728 & 1730 W Buckeye

As part of a citywide effort to keep neighborhoods better informed of land use decisions, the City has begun distributing RFCs (requests for comments) to the Emerson-Garfield Neighborhood Council whenever there’s a zoning or parcel change relevant to our neighborhood. The last time they did this was for the construction of a broadcast tower at the back of the new Spokane Public Radio building. The current RFC is designated the “Miller” Preliminary City Short Plat (file no. Z1500069PSP) and concerns the parcel(s) at 1728…

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New Spokane Transportation Maps

New Spokane Transportation Maps

The Spokane Regional Transportation Council (SRTC) is experimenting with new, more visual maps that don’t just use traditional lines and points but also pictures, charts, graphs and other visual indicators to convey transportation data. Several new maps of this kind are available on SRTC’s ArcGIS Online website. Some of these new maps include: A bridge condition map showing bridges in Spokane County that are structurally deficient functionally obsolete A before-and-after map for transportation improvement projects showing how roadways and other transportation facilities looked before and after…

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