Please, Monica, stop screaming NIMBY long enough to listen for a moment. Some of us believe in the sanctity of Discovery Park, as a park. You have entirely missed the point of the lawsuit. The point is to prevent property that should rightfully be part of Discovery Park from being developed as high-density housing, not just for the homeless, but for anyone. In fact, the majority of the housing proposed for the site is market-rate.

The Discovery Park Master Plan states that the Army Reserve area is a non-park use of land, inside the park, and it should be acquired for the park. The City has dismissed this plan while advancing its agenda of forcing high-density housing in every place it can. High-density is the City's pat answer to growth management, and in the same way that a child with a hammer thinks that everything is a nail, the City applies the solution of high-density willy-nilly. This is not urban planning at its best. The City should honor the Discovery Park Master Plan and the wisdom of those who drafted it. In a passage that is absolutely prescient, it says:

"In the years to come, there will be almost irresistible pressure to carve out areas of the park, in order to provide sites for various civic structures….The pressures for those sites may constitute the greatest single threat to the Park. They must be resisted with resolution."

As density increases, so too will the need for parks and natural wildlife areas. We have an incredible opportunity to realize the Discovery Park Master Plan by adding the Fort Lawton property, most of which is buffer zone for heron habitat, to the Park. By failing to heed the desire of Magnolia residents and labeling any opposition as NIMBY-ism, city officials alienate citizens and come across as disingenuous at best.
Most Magnolia residents would welcome an honest discussion with the City about how to accommodate the homeless here in Magnolia. But that is a separate issue. The issue relevant to this discussion is that the Fort Lawton land should not be developed for housing, of any type, end of story.

Best Regards,

Robin Budd, Seattle
http://www.fortlawton.org

Homeless Sex offender NIMBY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

They just dont want to share their neighborhood with people like Mr Kingbird.

this makes me sick. a classic case of NIMBY. Mangnolia is the kind of place where people will donate their $5 to the Mission for 10 thanksgiving meals but when is comes to sharing their own neighborhood they sue the city. Lack of compassion is clear. Homeless people will sleep in Discovery Park whether or not there is housing. but it's the neighborhood planning council who will decide if it's cold and wet or warm and dry. and just think...if the economy goes belly up as predicted...maybe those snooty Magnolians will be sparing for a place in the park soon themselves.

We need this housing to help UP men like Mr Kingbird!!!!!!!!!!!!