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/.

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.

https://www.gofundme.com/pw6ag9-tiny-house-project

Mark your calendar and clean out your closets and basement. The 7th Annual All Montlake Yard Sale is September 21 from 9:00 to 3:00. Stay tuned for more information about registering your yard sale. If you are interested in volunteering to help support the All Montlake Yard Sale please email Heather at hjhardin@gmail.com.

Get ready to sell and shop!

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.

24th Ave E/E Lynn St:

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South Portage Bay will be treated with aquatic herbicide on or between July 24th and 25th, and August 8th and 14th, 2019. Signs will be posted in the affected areas no more than 48 hours prior to treatment.

 In 2017, the city and the Washington State Department of Transportation developed the Montlake Neighborhood Traffic Management Plan. A process to request traffic calming measures is in place. To ask questions or to request traffic calming measures email Montlake.traffic@seattle.gov. Below are the investments being made this summer and fall as a result of community requests. A third request cycle will happen late 2019/early 2020.

Observing the growth of the young eaglets in Monty and Marsha’s nest is challenging, however the most visible sign of their development may not even be in the nesting tree. Read my post to see if you agree.

Union Bay Watch

Have a great day on Union Bay…where nature lives in the city!

Larry

A new phase of construction along SR 520 means the freeway stop will be gone.

By News Desk, News Partner

Jun 21, 2019 7:52 am ET

From King County: Effective Friday night, June 21 at 11:59 PM, construction along SR 520 will require the permanent closure of the Montlake Freeway Station stops in both directions.

Affected bus routes are Metro routes 252, 255, 257, 268 and 311; Sound Transit Express routes 545 and 555, and all other agencies’ routes that have served the stops.

The bus stop northbound on Montlake Blvd E at E Shelby Street will be the closest alternate stop.
When the stops close, transit riders who need to transfer to or from other Eastside service will do so at other locations, such as Evergreen Point Station, Yarrow Point Station, the University of Washington Link light rail station or at other transfer points in Bellevue, Kirkland, Redmond, downtown Seattle or in the University District.

To minimize the impact, WSDOT and Sound Transit are partnering to add more evening and weekend trips on ST Route 542 to augment existing service.

Visit Metro’s online regional Puget Sound Trip Planner to plan your travel, and for bus stop, schedule and other information, including predicted times at stops. To check your SR 520 travel options in advance, use a travel date June 22 or later.S

Visit Metro’s Service Advisories page for information about revised bus service, routing and stops for planned events. Transit reroute start and end times may be subject to change.
Thank you for riding and for using Metro’s services.