Neighbor Power by Jim A. Diers

Author:Jim A. Diers [Diers, Jim A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, United States, General, Political Science, Public Policy, City Planning & Urban Development, Public Affairs & Administration, American Government, State, Regional Planning, Local
ISBN: 9780295984445
Google: 8sezSZG73wsC
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2004-01-15T02:48:14+00:00

Project: Webster Playground Project

Sponsor: Groundswell Northwest

Location: 3014 Northwest 67th Street

Year awarded: 1995

Amount awarded: $49,872

Amount leveraged: $319,207

Year completed: 1996

Groundswell's next project, led by Dave Boyd, was in the Crown Hill neighborhood. The organization had successfully lobbied the city to purchase a half-acre lot in the heart of the business district. The property, on which sat a dilapidated house inhabited by transients and surrounded by blackberry bushes and trash, needed a great deal of work. The city, however, had no money to improve the site.

Using the Neighborhood Matching Fund, Groundswell cleared the property and worked with a landscape architect to design Baker Park. Volunteers constructed an arbor entrance and planted butterfly and shade gardens. The landscape architect and volunteers also designed and created a meadow play area complete with two giant boulders for climbing. The community tried to save the property's beautiful old trees, which had been part of the Baker family's Depression-era nursery, but one of them, a large monkey puzzle tree, succumbed to old age. Rather than remove the dead tree, Groundswell contracted with a Haida Indian to carve a totem pole. Topped by a raven, the totem features a variety of animals traditional to Haida folklore, including a bear carrying a frog in its mouth, symbolizing the return of nature to Crown Hill.

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