December Meeting Public Comment Overview

First Hill Streetcar Public Meeting and Comment Overview December 15, 2009 —January 8, 2010 OVERVIEW The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) hosted three community meetings in mid-December, marking the first in a series of community outreach endeavors. With more than 300 people in attendance at these meetings and hundreds of comments garnered from the period of December 15, 2009 through January 8, 2010 SDOT received significant community feedback. Study of these comments is currently being combined with other important alignment factors including bicycle integration, ridership and economic development potential, possible utility conflicts, streetcar travel time, capital and operating costs, potential traffic and parking revisions and urban design opportunities. Further analysis of these factors will be available at the next set of community meetings, which will be held the second week of February 2010. A third set of meetings may take place in mid-March to discuss the Mayor’s final alignment preference(s), before they are likely presented to the Seattle City Council in April. PUBLIC MEETINGS The three December community meetings were hosted at venues directly served by the alignments under consideration for the First Hill Streetcar—Seattle Central Community College, the Yesler Terrace Community Center and Union Station. Meeting notification postcards were mailed to nearly 40,000 residences and businesses in the neighboring ...