Delridge Action Plan
Thank you to all who attended Delridge workshops and meetings and helped produce the North Delridge Action Plan.
In 2014, we partnered with the Department of Neighborhoods (DON) to work with a cross-section of community members to assess and address those conditions that have changed since the 1999 Neighborhood Plan. New community members worked with those who participated in the planning over 20 years ago. Through hands-on and interactive workshops, focus group meetings, individual workshops, in-person interviews, business canvassing, and online surveys, neighbors used a variety of ways to become and stay involved in the project.
Together, hundreds of neighbors helped identify the community's vision for North Delridge, and prioritize steps that individuals, organizations and the City can take to make Delridge a healthy and livable neighborhood for all community members. The meeting materials and comments are on our Get Involved page. An advisory committee, made of members who represent cross sections of the community, worked in partnership with the City to balance the different interests of the community with the goal of developing a shared vision and action plan.
The Final North Delridge Action Plan is now available. The accompanying Seattle's Community Toolkit is a guide to City of Seattle and other programs and resources that you can access to take action on priorities in the Action Plan.
The plan outlines six priority areas:
- Supporting Diverse & Engaged Communities
- Developing Dynamic Neighborhood Destinations
- Improving Access to Affordable, Healthy Food
- Creating Active Transportation Choices
- Nurturing a Healthy Longfellow Creek Watershed
- Leveraging Parks & Cultural Facilities to Support a Healthy Community
The advisory committee chose business development as their near-term priority and have completed business outreach funded through a Neighborhood Matching Fund. Funded by an Only in Seattle grant, they are currently using the survey results to begin working on business organization and supports.
The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) partnered with us to inform the Delridge Multimodal Corridor Study and the development of the Delridge RapidRide H Line project. They continue to use input from those who participated in joint workshops in 2015 and 2016 and visited the online open house in 2017, as well as an existing conditions report, technical data and transportation plans to identify options for moving more people and goods along Delridge Ave SW and to upgrade Metro Route 120 to RapidRide.
As Sound Transit works to bring light rail to Delridge and West Seattle, the City will work with the Delridge communities to inform the rail alignment, station siting and design, and more specific area planning around the North Delridge station.
Project Benefits
The Delridge Action Plan will use the Healthy Living Framework to focus attention on how neighborhood planning can improve our health, connect people and places, and make sure places serve people. The framework proposes that a healthy Delridge includes strong community and organizations, healthy people and families, and a supportive physical environment.
The Delridge Action Plan seeks to support a healthy neighborhood that:
- Contains diverse households, supported by strong social and cultural institutions and services
- Provides access to resources necessary to meet personal needs, such as healthy food, retail, and commercial destinations
- Includes a natural and man-made environment with infrastructure supporting healthy activities such as parks, sidewalks, playgrounds, transit, shopping, and services
The End Result
Our action plan will define community and City strategies that address key priorities developed through the planning process, with the aim of ensuring Delridge's people and places can thrive.
Our planning process and action plan engaged the full range of community stakeholders, including historically underrepresented communities, using the Department of Neighborhoods' Community Liaisons. Our engagement process included an advisory team that helped create an ongoing and representative committee tasked with implementing the Delridge Action Plan.
Youths at a Food Empowerment Education Sustainability Team dinner encouraged their peers to provide comments to help direct the Healthy Delridge Parks Vision.
Our booth at Delridge Day on Saturday, August 8, 2016 encouraged community members to review and comment on draft action plan strategies, and provide priorities and suggestions for the Healthy Delridge Parks Vision.
Our Delridge Projects Workshop on Saturday, June 6, 2016 invited residents and community members to:
- Provide direction on the North Delridge Action Plan (North of SW Elmgrove St.)
- Help design future multimodal improvements to Delridge Way
- Learn about Longfellow Creek Basin Natural Drainage Systems
The results and your feedback are posted in the meeting notes below.
Here’s what we have heard at previous Delridge meetings:
- Create more community and cultural gathering places
- More places to shop and eat
- Improve walking, biking, and transit connections
- Create more recreation and cultural programs
The transcribed workshop notes and their emerging themes are posted below. These notes are helping us and the Advisory Core Team (ACT) establish the priorities and actions in the North Delridge Action Plan. Here is what we've heard:
Our community loves:
- Friends and community
- Community and cultural centers
- Recreation and open space
Our community says they need:
- Better Access to Food
- Better access to local shops
- More activities for youth and adults
- More programs and spaces for them
- Improved transportation service and safety
Meeting Notes
Phase 1 Issues & Opportunities Summer/Fall 2014
- N. Delridge Action Plan - Phase 1 Meeting Notes
- N. Delridge Action Plan - Phase 1 Meeting Themes
- N. Delridge Action Plan - Phase 1 Public Outreach and Engagement Meeting Notes
Advisory Committee Meeting Notes
- N. Delridge Action Plan - ACT Meeting Agenda - December 2014
- N. Delridge Action Plan - ACT Meeting Notes - December 2014
- N. Delridge Action Plan - ACT Workplan
- N. Delridge Action Plan - ACT Meeting Agenda - January 2015
- N. Delridge Action Plan - ACT Meeting Notes - January 2015
- N. Delridge Action Plan - ACT Meeting Agenda - February 2015
- N. Delridge Action Plan - ACT Meeting Notes - February 2015
- N. Delridge Action Plan - ACT Meeting Notes - April 2015
- N. Delridge Action Plan - ACT Meeting Notes - May 2015
- N. Delridge Action Plan - ACT Meeting Notes - August 2015
- N. Delridge Action Plan - ACT Meeting Notes - September 2015
- N. Delridge Action Plan - ACT Meeting Notes - October 2015
- N. Delridge Action Plan - ACT Meeting Notes - November 2015
- N. Delridge Action Plan - Issues and Opportunities Map
Phase 2 Preliminary Strategies Summer 2015
- N. Delridge Action Plan - Andover Node
- N. Delridge Action Plan - Brandon Node
- N. Delridge Action Plan - Campus Node
- N. Delridge Action Plan - Sylvan Node
- N. Delridge Action Plan - Gather/Shop/Play Map
- N. Delridge Action Plan - Action Plan Summary
- N. Delridge Action Plan - Action Plan Meeting Notes
- N. Delridge Action Plan - Delridge Days Feedback Tally
- N. Delridge Action Plan - Gather, Shop and Play Map
Phase 3 Strategies Fall 2015
- N. Delridge Action Plan - Andover Node
- N. Delridge Action Plan - Brandon Node
- N. Delridge Action Plan - Campus Node
- N. Delridge Action Plan - Sylvan Node
- N. Delridge Action Plan - Affordable Healthy Food Notes
- N. Delridge Action Plan - Neighborhood Centers and Drainage Notes
- N. Delridge Action Plan - Parks and Connections Notes
- N. Delridge Action Plan - Supporting Communities Notes
Delridge Projects Workshop Materials Fall 2016
Our collaborative planning efforts address three areas of opportunity. These opportunities have expanded and evolved through neighborhood community engagement in a conversation about the future of Delridge.
Create Great Community Places
- Encourage neighborhood-serving development that creates great places at SW Brandon St., SW. Orchard St / Sylvan Way SW, and SW Andover St., around the Community Center, and Youngstown Cultural Arts Center as identified in the neighborhood plan
- Inform conceptual design for future improvements as part of the Delridge Way SW Multimodal Corridor Project (see below) so that it supports its Delridge’s growth and provides the safe and efficient connections the community needs
- Assess issues and identify opportunities to address drainage and flooding
Improve Community Health
- Increase access to healthy food by building on existing community work such as the Food and Fitness Initiative, the Delridge Grocery Cooperative, and the recent report sponsored by the Women’s Commission and Council Member O’Brien
- Identify ways to build on Delridge’s parks, open space, and natural assets to make walking, biking, and taking transit and easy choice
Build Community Capacity to Identify Priorities & Take Action
- Engage historically underrepresented communities through the Public Outreach and Engagement Liaisons to improve the health and livability of Delridge for all its community members
- Include community-based actions as well as City actions
Delridge Multimodal Corridor Project and RapidRide H Line
Seattle Department of Transportation partnered with the North Delridge Planning to seek input on transforming Delridge Way SW into a safer and healthier space with predictable movement of people and goods. To help inform the project design, we teamed up with the University of Washington graduate students to conduct a voluntary Health Impact Assessment (HIA). Download the Health Impact Assessment for more information. With the passing of the Move Seattle Levy, the project is now oriented to implementing RapidRide H line.
Organizations
- Delridge Neighborhoods Development Association – DNDA’s mission is to “inspire and engage residents, businesses, and institutions in creating a thriving Delridge.”
- North Delridge Neighborhood Council – NDNC is a community organization dedicated to preserving and improving the neighborhood in accordance with the wishes of the community. NDNC strives to inform the community about matters affecting the quality of life in the area, provide leadership in addressing community needs, communicate with governmental agencies in an effort to represent the interests of the community, and cooperate with other organizations and person having similar interests.
- Delridge Grocery Cooperative – Planned to open summer of 2014, the Delridge Grocery will be a member-owned consumer food co-op in the heart of the Delridge, in the retail level of the new Cottage Grove building. The Delridge Grocery will provide a place for our diverse community to gather and celebrate simple, affordable, healthy food.
Documents
- North Delridge Background Analysis Report
- Seattle Women and Food Access: Learning from Women in Delridge
- 1999 Delridge Neighborhood Plan and Approval and Adoption Matrix
- Status Check: Citizens Assess Neighborhood Plans
- Policy Link Equitable Development Toolkit: Equitable Food Hubs
- Food for Thought: Groundwork for the King County Food & Fitness Initiative
- N. Delridge Action Plan - Approval and Adoption Matrix
- N. Delridge Action Plan - Background Analysis Report
- N. Delridge Action Plan - UW Evans School Report
Business Development Analysis