Under the new City Council system of electing council members by district, Maple Leaf after the 2015 elections will be represented by two council members.
Most of the neighborhood will be in District Five, from Northeast Northgate Way down roughly to the middle of the new Maple Leaf Reservoir Park.
Neighbors who live south of a line drawn horizontally though the park will be in District 4.
Learn more about this at the January meeting of the Maple Leaf Community Council. It’s Wednesday, January 29th, from 7-9 p.m. at Olympic View Elementary School, Eighth Avenue Northeast and Northeast 95th Street. Free, licensed child care will be provided.
Also on the agenda, the community council’s work plan for the year, an update on the ever-popular Bicycle Master Plan (a separated bike lane on Roosevelt Way Northeast?) and changes to public school boundaries.
Yes, and we will also now have 6 City Council members who will care very little about what Maple Leaf wants, and who will be advocates for their own districts. Sounds like an opportunity for more factionalism, and/or more horse-trading and log-rolling, most likely to take place behind the scenes. So, it’s not necessarily a utopia.
We’re going to have a single City Council member who’s accountable directly to us! This is the best Seattle government news in at least a generation!