we can fight city hall

“urban green spaces are fundamental components of a city’s infrastructure - green spaces enrich the lives of city dwellers in many ways, offering places to watch wildlife, to renew from the stresses of daily life, and to provide many environmental functions (i.e., minimize flooding) - evidence shows that urban green spaces reduce anxiety and stress, even help to lower crime and violence - however, many people only equate green spaces with public parks and other publicly accessible spaces - citizens forget about green spaces in their own backyards, the street right-of-ways and other public, private and semi-public places - urban green spaces are all around us and if we look hard enough we will be amazed at what they have to offer - unfortunately, many of these hidden green spaces are under threat of disappearing…….” - - the seattle audubon society

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after writing the post above, citing the seattle department of transportation website and the discussion with mr bell about ordinance # 90047, I attempted to create a link to the city website for this blog remarkably, the wording of the city site has changedthe city of seattle has removed the following two sentences fom the second paragraph:“ if you are not the abutting property owner of the proposed work, you will need to include the signatures of all adjacent neighbors who will be affected - the signatures should demonstrate that the adjacent neighbors approve of the proposed project” however, the city foolishly retained the last sentence of the original paragraph in its website, which makes no sense whatsoever, in the edited context: “the arborist office can help you locate the names and addresses of those neighbors if you are uncertain of who to contact“ seattle’s own little watergate - what shall we call it - plantgate? treegate? greengate? - I personally prefer greengate, as I have begun to believe that the kind of green that matters for some of our city is not the kind that grows on trees your input and recommendations will be greatly appreciated and enjoyed - I know it is likely the city website will be changed again, but I have copies of the original website and today’s website - who knows what tomorrow’s may bring?

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