Seattle City Councilor Tom Rasmussen toured upper Queen Anne late last week to check Seattle Department of Parks and Recreation's progress in preventing residents on the hill from landscaping over Parks property.
Rasmussen and members of the Parks Department toured Bigelow Avenue North where many homes have landscaped over Parks property lines - a practice that is happening citywide, Parks officials said.
Parks' Pamela Alspaugh and MaryLou Whiteford explained to Rasmussen and other guests that the department wants to use Pro Parks Levy 2 money earmarked for sidewalk development on Bigelow Avenue where progress has already been made.
About half of the residents who have built on Parks land have been compliant with the department's request to remove or cease landscape development, Whiteford said. The others have ignored the department's pleas.
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