User:Departmentofneighborhoods

General/History:

http://www.seattle.gov/neighborhoods/

Historic Preservation:

The Historic Preservation Program is responsible for the designation and protection of more than 400 historic structures, sites, objects, and vessels, as well as seven historic districts throughout Seattle.

Seattle's commitment to historic preservation began with citizen efforts in the 1960s to block the demolition of several beloved buildings and proposed "Urban Renewal" plans that would have destroyed most of downtown's Pioneer Square and Pike Place Market. In 1970, the Seattle City Council secured Pioneer Square's survival with the City's first historic preservation district, and voters approved an initiative for the Pike Place Market historic district two years later. In 1973, the Seattle City Council adopted a Landmarks Preservation Ordinance to safeguard properties of historic and architectural significance around the city -- and more than 400 structures and sites have now been designated to ranging from the Ward House, our oldest standing residence, to the futuristic Space Needle.

http://www.seattle.gov/neighborhoods/preservation/

Landmarks:

http://seattle.gov/neighborhoods/preservation/landmarks.htm http://seattle.gov/neighborhoods/preservation/landmarks_listing.htm http://seattle.gov/neighborhoods/preservation/historic_districts.htm

Neighborhood Matching Fund:

http://www.seattle.gov/neighborhoods/nmf/ http://www.seattlepi.com/local/394475_hoodmatch02.html

Neighborhood Planning Outreach:

http://www.seattle.gov/neighborhoods/npi/

Neighborhood District Coordinators:

http://www.seattle.gov/neighborhoods/nsc/

Neighborhood Service Centers:

http://www.seattle.gov/neighborhoods/nsc/

P-Patch Community Gardening Program:

http://www.seattle.gov/neighborhoods/ppatch/

Immigrant and Refugee Initiative:

http://www.seattle.gov/neighborhoods/immigrants/

Major Institutions and Schools:

http://www.seattle.gov/neighborhoods/immigrants/

Seattle Youth Commission:

http://www.seattle.gov/neighborhoods/syc/

Stella Chao:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003493869_chao25m.html http://www.seattle.gov/mayor/newsdetail.asp?ID=6808&dept=40