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Sand Point News Archive
City Council Approves
Master Plan for Magnuson Park
06/14/04 Seattle City Council
After more than a decade of planning and years of wrangling over final plans,
the Seattle City Council today approved a master plan for an athletic field and
wetlands development at Sand Point Magnuson Park in northeast Seattle.
City
Council to debate Magnuson Park playfields issue
03/04 Seattle Sun
Magnuson Park on a sunny Saturday morning in February is a beautiful, quiet place.
A group of 40-something men playing a pickup soccer game provide the only activity
on the otherwise deserted sports playfields, whose rusted soccer goals and makeshift
wooden picnic shelter give them a rickety neighborhood charm.
Magnuson
Park is hit with more 'guerrilla art'
01/09/04 The Seattle Times
Nine life-sized sculptures of soldiers at attention appeared quietly over the
weekend on Kite Hill at Seattle's Sand Point Magnuson Park, where random artwork
has turned up for the second time in three years.
Battle
over more playfields goes on
05/26/03 Seattle Post-Intelligencer
The fierce match between foes and supporters of a major sports complex planned
in Magnuson Park shows no signs of ending soon. This week, Friends of Magnuson
Park are meeting to discuss suing the city of Seattle to force a rethinking of
the project's magnitude.
Plan
for Sand Point approved, almost
04/03 Seattle Sun
City Deputy Hearing Examiner Anne Watanabe recently ruled on the final environmental
impact statement (FEIS) for the 65-acre wetland and 15-acre sports field complex
at Sand Point/Magnuson Park. The ruling approved most of the environmental mitigations
offered by Seattle Parks and Recreation, but faulted the department's analysis
of the sports fields' effects on park wildlife.
Hearing
Examiner Rules On Sand Point Magnuson Park Final Environmental Impact
Statement
02/27/03 Seattle Parks & Recreation
Deputy Seattle Hearing Examiner Anne Watanabe ruled yesterday that the
Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) for the development of a 65-acre
wetland habitat area and 15 new athletic fields at Sand Point Magnuson
Park is adequate on seven out of eight issues upon which an appeal was
based.
Friends
of Magnuson Park
12/01/02 Friends of Magnuson Park
Neighbors are organizing to fight the sports complex being planned for
Magnuson Park. Do nothing now, and you will witness the urbanization of
Magnuson Park, with the construction of the largest, densest, busiest
ball field complex in the entire Puget Sound region.
Magnuson
Park Breaks New Ground on Old Navy Base
03/28/02 The Seattle Press
Children's Hospital's 1998 expansion announcement came as a blow to gardeners
at the Sand Point P-Patch. After gardening there for six years, the P-Patchers
were displaced.
New
Magnuson Park Off-leash Area
03/28/02 Seattle Parks & Recreation
The new meadow portion of the dogs off-leash area (OLA) at Sand Point
Magnuson Park, and the adjacent parking lot, will officially open April
2.
Residents
face field light glare
03/02 Seattle Sun
Homeowners who live near Sand Point Magnuson Park have been vocal in opposing
the City's plans to install lighting at the park's athletic fields for
nighttime games. However residents who live in transitional housing located
inside the park could face even more direct glare, according to the draft
environmental impact statement regarding the proposed project.
Field
Lighting at Sand Point
02/02 Seattle Sun
Like other North Seattle communities, View Ridge, which overlooks Sand
Point Magnuson Park, is currently in line for its share of nighttime illumination
- if the Seattle Parks and Recreation Department gets its way.
The
Man Behind the Monolith
01/24/01 The Seattle Press
Artist Caleb Schaber got a "thank you" e-mail from Mayor Schell, for ...
breaking the law?
Monolith
to make Magnuson encore
01/06/01 The Seattle Times
Seattle's monolith will return to Magnuson Park next week, not by mysterious
forces in the night, but through an agreement between its owners and the
city parks department.
Sand
Point off-leash improvements tied up in court
01/01 Jet City Maven
The Seattle Parks Departmentıs plan to improve the off-leash area at Magnuson
Park is at least temporarily delayed by an appeal made by the Citizens
Sand Point Planning Association to the King County Superior Court.
Sand
Point covered in 'Rose Red'
01/01 Jet City Maven
The former naval base at Sand Point had made a major contribution to the
glamour quotient of North Seattle. ³Rose Red,² a new ABC-TV miniseries
about a haunted mansion that feeds on ³life force² has been filming there
since October.
Seattle
is Stephen King's latest haunt: Miniseries reveals scary side
10/31/00 The Seattle Times
People speak in whispers in the sprawling house called Rose Red. Its shadowy
hallways echo with the footfalls of the undead.
