neighborhood organizing

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An idea, a few neighbors, and a plan — sometimes that's all it takes. This page links to activities, groups, and projects already underway in the neighborhood.

If you'd like to start something, pitch your idea. You can propose a new group. Use the wiki to work together online. Reserve meetings for the fun stuff.

Brainstorm, discuss, sign up & show up!

activities

• Hitt's Hill Park work parties, first Saturday of the month, April-October.
  Drop in anytime from 10:00-1:00.
• Night Out block parties, 2008
• neighborhood brunches, first Sunday of every month
• Spring Clean, 2008

groups

• block watch
• C-City Runners, a local running club for Columbia City residents and their friends.
• Columbia City Community Council
• Friends of Hitt's Hill Park
• Healthy and Active Rainier Valley Coalition,
  • promoting culturally appropriate physical activity and nutrition
• Hillman City Neighborhood Alliance
• La Leche League of South Seattle,
  • peer-to-peer breastfeeding information and support
• Rainier Valley Rotary Club meets at Kallaloo, weekly -Tues. 7:30 a.m.
• South Seattle Crime Prevention Council
• Sustainable South Seattle

initiatives & projects

• Columbia City / Hillman City Gateway Project
• Economic Bootstrapping Conference, set for April 18, 2009, at Rainier Community Center
• Friends of Columbia School
• graffiti removal
• C-City De-fence Project
• P-patches
• Seward Park Playground Improvement Foundation (SPPIF)
• Sustainable Urban Neighborhoods Initiative

neighborhood planning

• Columbia City's draft plan, submitted to Council 1999
• Council's adopted plan (pg 8.33-8.36)
  • neighborhood plan implementation: 2004 report
• Columbia City Landmark District Design Guidelines (revised December 2006)
• future development, Citizen input