Welcome to Whittier Heights

Andrea Faste, Community Council President (amfaste@aol.com)

Who's a Member?  Living or working within the boundaries of 8th Ave. NW on the east, 15th NW on the west, and NW 65th to the south and NW 85th to the north makes YOU a member of the Whittier Heights Community Council. Neighbors from nearby join us when issues spread across the streets.

Our purpose is to keep Whittier Heights a friendly place for flora and fauna, humans included.  What do we do? Here's some of it...

 We created and maintain Baker Park, a small neighborhood park at 8347 14th Ave. NW.

We hold an annual dinner at Whittier Elementary School in September to raise funds and to provide a chance for families to reconnect at the beginning of the school year.

Right now we're working with the City to make 15th NW more pedestrian friendly and visually attractive.

We've also gone on record opposing Safeway's locating of a discount style gas station at the corner of 15th NW and NW 83rd because of environmental impacts, traffic, noise and so on.

The Community Council is the first group to contact if you want to put in a traffic circle, do street tree plantings or even have a parade. The Council encourages Blockwatch participation and sends Jim Bohn (jim_bohn@hotmail.com) as our representative to monthly North Police Precinct meetings. The Council receives information from City departments, and is often asked to comment on neighborhood developments like changes in local businesses or proposed new apartment  developments.

Where we fit in the governance system. We are the bottom rung in the city's community council system, under the Ballard District Council, which meets second Wednesdays of each month. Our representative is Andy MacDonald (awm@alum.mit.edu).   Kay Ogren, the chair of Ballard District Council for 2002-2003, is a resident and member of the Whittier Heights Community Council. We meet as needed but usually on 3rd or 4th of the month Monday nights. Depending on projects we're doing, there may be work parties, weeding parties or subcommittee meetings. We also welcome guests to general meetings from time to time to discuss neighborhood concerns. Our meetings are open to everyone.   We try to remember to have chocolate candy at our meetings at Whittier School Library...less messy than coffee. Apologies to dieters and those who are sugar averse. Meetings start right at 7:15 PM and we try to be done by 8:30 PM.