This week’s post is about Rama, our newest Osprey on Union Bay. She is growing up quick and hopefully rising to the challenges she must face. Read more at:
Have a great day on Union Bay…where nature lives in the city!
Larry
Growing Expectations
Volunteers needed for tiny house build
Please help your Montlake Community Club build a tiny house in September. This house will be placed in a Tiny House Village by the Low Income Housing Institute. These houses are often a first step toward permanent housing for our homeless neighbors. We are looking for volunteers to help us build the house on September 7th, 8th, 14th, and 15th. Volunteers need to be 18 years of age or older to volunteer or as young as 16 or 17 if they have permission from a parent or guardian. Please sign up for one or more four hour shifts. Construction will be at 15230 NE 92nd St., Redmond, WA 98052. Hope you can join us.
You can sign up for more than one shift.
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/8050c48acae23a3ff2-tiny
Also, any donation will help. Thanks in advance for your contribution to this project.
Volunteers needed to help build a tiny house
The Montlake Community Club is building a tiny house in September. This house will be placed in a Tiny House Village by the Low Income Housing Institute. These houses are often a first step toward permanent housing for our homeless neighbors. We are looking for volunteers to help us build the house on September 7th, 8th, 14th and 15th. Volunteers need to be 18 years of age or older to volunteer or as young as 16 or 17 if they have permission from a parent or guardian. Please sign up for one or more four hour shifts. Construction will be at 15230 NE 92nd St., Redmond, WA 98052. Hope you can join us.
You can sign up for more than one shift.
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/8050c48acae23a3ff2-tiny
Also, any donation will help. Thanks in advance for your contribution to this project.
Tiny House Project needs volunteers to help build
The Montlake Community Club is building a tiny house in September. This house will be placed in a Tiny House Village by the Low Income Housing Institute. These houses are often a first step toward permanent housing for our homeless neighbors. We are looking for volunteers to help us build the house on September 7th, 8th, 14th and 15th. Volunteers need to be 18 years of age or older to volunteer or as young as 16 or 17 if they have permission from a parent or guardian. Please sign up for one or more four hour shifts. Construction will be at 15230 NE 92nd St., Redmond, WA 98052. Hope you can join us.
You can sign up for more than one shift.
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/8050c48acae23a3ff2-tiny
Also, any donation will help. Thanks in advance for your contribution to this project.
Sign up for the Montlake Yard Sale
As summer draws to a close, it’s time to sign up to participate in the seventh annual ALL-MONTLAKE YARD SALE, organized by the Montlake Community Club. The sale takes place on Saturday, September 21 between 9:00 am and 4:00 pm.
The MCC handles much of the publicity for this event: signage, ad placements, and an online interactive map with sale sites for buyers.
The sign up deadline to be included on the interactive map is midnight on Wednesday, September 18th.
For questions, or if you’d like to volunteer to help distribute flyers or put up signs, please email treasurer@montlake.net.
Purple Martins
This week’s post covers interactions between our new, nesting Purple Martins and some of the previously established species. See the story on:
Have a great day on Union Bay…where nature lives in the city!
Larry
Show your Montlake spirit
We have a new shipment of all styles and sizes of our great Montlake Gear – nice gifts for birthdays and holidays or just for fun.
Starting in September, we will have regular Pop-up shops at the Boyer Children’s Clinic (1850 Boyer Ave E). The shops will be open on the second Tuesday of each month from 6:30 to 7:00 PM, just before our monthly Montlake Community Club board meetings. Shops will be in the foyer of the Boyer Clinic basement conference room. Access to the foyer is through the Boyer Clinic garage on E Howe Street just off Boyer.
If you will be stopping by, please let us know so we can have the gear on display. Contact us at treasurer@montlake.net. Check out all of the options at https://montlake.net/gear/.
Montlake Project update – nighttime noise variance goes into effect Friday, Aug. 16
| From WDOT: |
| Construction is underway on the SR 520 Montlake Project. Over the next four years, crews will build a seismically stronger, three-lane bridge over Union Bay for eastbound traffic, a highway lid in Montlake with a transit hub and landscaped open space, a new Montlake Boulevard interchange, and a bicycle and pedestrian bridge over SR 520. As much as possible, Graham (the contractor) will work during the day to complete the project. As needed, Graham will work at night in order to minimize disruptions to daytime traffic and support the safety of the traveling public and our crews. Starting this Friday, Aug. 16, nighttime work will be done under a city of Seattle-approved Major Public Project Construction Noise Variance. This variance sets noise limits for nighttime construction activities and establishes a variety of operational requirements when crews are working between 10 p.m. and 7 a.m. on weekdays, and between 10 p.m. and 9 a.m. on weekends and legal holidays. The noise variance requires crews to: Use noise meters throughout the construction area to verify that nighttime activities remain within the decibel limits set by the city, and provide noise-monitoring reports to the city and the public to demonstrate compliance.Deploy an independent noise inspector during all nighttime work to oversee noise monitoring and report on compliance directly to the city of Seattle. The inspector has authority to halt work if noise exceeds the limits set by the variance.Prohibit noisy impact work at night, such as auger shaking, jackhammering and impact pile driving. Additionally, WSDOT and Graham have voluntarily committed to the following measures: Offer hotel accommodations to nearby neighbors when nighttime work is expected to be particularly noisy or extend for long periods. You can read the noise variance application and decision on the city of Seattle’s website (document #3030792). How to reach us and stay informed about SR 520 construction: Call the 24-hour construction hotline (206-775-8885) with pressing Montlake Project questions or concerns. Call the SR 520 Program information line (206-770-3554, M-F 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.) with general SR 520 inquiries. Email SR 520 staff with your questions about the project or construction activities. Visit the SR 520 Construction Corner for the most up-to-date information on closures and construction impacts. Visit the SR 520 Program website to find general information about the project. Follow us on Twitter @wsdot_520 to get key news and updates about the SR 520 program. |
Cutter Thrives
This week’s post covers the next steps in Cutter’s return to his parents, Monty and Marsha, our local Montlake Cut Bald Eagle pair.
Also, in this post, Friends of Arboretum Creek asks for your help in inspiring the King County Council to proceed with a design grant to restore Arboretum Creek. After you read the details, please take a few moments to help make a big difference!
Have a great day on Union Bay...where nature lives in the city!
Larry
The Council Member’s Email Addresses are:
larry.gossett@kingcounty.gov
rod.dembowski@kingcounty.gov
kathy.lambert@kingcounty.gov
jeanne.kohl-welles@kingcounty.gov
dave.upthegrove@kingcounty.gov
claudia.balducci@kingcounty.gov
pete.vonreichbauer@kingcounty.gov
joe.mcdermott@kingcounty.gov
reagan.dunn@kingcounty.gov
Support noise mitigation TONIGHT at WSDOT’s night-time noise variance public meeting
The Seattle Department of Construction & Inspections is holding a public meeting on Thursday, August 1, 5:30p to 7:30p at the Queen City Yacht Club to hear comments about WSDOT’s 3-year nighttime construction noise variance for the SR520/I-5 Express Lanes Connection Project, to allow construction work during night time hours to exceed the sound levels contained in the Seattle Municipal Code.
If the loud construction noise from SR520 Montlake phase work done at 1 a.m. on Thursday, July 25, is any indication of what is to come – we must have a good turnout for tonight’s public meeting. The Montlake phase excavation work on July 25 disrupted hundreds of residents. The obvious question is what other portions of this project are planned for such excavation — because they are getting a noise variance permit to do it? The noise reportedly sounded like a helicopter hovering directly over homes, traveled on the ridge line along 10th Ave East down to the water from Shelby to Roanoke. The hill on the west side of Portage Bay forms a natural amphitheater that amplifies noise for everyone living the bay. The noise last Thursday showed that WSDOT has no idea how sound travels, asking their contractor’s PR firm to simply document complaints vs. acting on them.
Several well-documented letters have been submitted in opposition to the noise variance application. Approval would allow nighttime construction work — using compressors at a low of 71 dBA to vibratory pile installers at up to 84 dBA – all at the edge of the right of way for 3 years, 7 days a week. This does not include six years of construction to replace the Portage Bay Bridge… so WSDOT’s night-time noise variance is in reality over nine years.
