Feb 11, 7pm - Maple Leaf convinces city to add a new public hearing to discuss major townhome proposal

Kudos to Maple Leaf for getting 200 people to sign their petition requesting a public hearing to discuss plans for the old Camp Fire/Waldo Hospital property. If you’re interested in helping out another neighborhood facing incompatible development - make sure to attend this meeting. Below is a copy of the meeting notice from the President of the Maple Leaf Community Council.

The Maple Leaf Community has been working for almost two years to positively affect the development at the site of historic Waldo Hospital near NE 85th and 15th Ave. NE. The current owners, Camp Fire, rebuffed the neighborhood’s offers back in August of 2006 to help them raise money to renovate the building and instead sold to a developer who plans to tear down the building. Even worse, the developer wants to
cut down over half the mature, healthy trees on the site and sink basements into the root structures of a third of what trees are left.

Maple Leaf has been trying to convince anyone in the City who will listen there is a better way to develop the site than the plans proposed by Kirkland’s Prescott  Developments.

Over 200 people signed a petition requesting a public hearing, and the City granted one on Monday, February 11 at 7pm. Maple Leaf residents were only given a week’s notice ahead of the meeting, so if you have an interest in demonstrating your support for doing development in a way that doesn’t decrease tree cover or unecessarily degrade the surrounding neighborhood, show up and support them.

Date: Monday, February 11
Time: 7-9pm
Place: University Heights Community Center, Room 209 (5031 University Way NE)

The Maple Leaf Community Council has a new website, and they have tons of useful information about the project and it’s impacts at a special page on their web site: http://www.mapleleafcommunity.org/savewaldo.html