The Lake City Neighborhood Alliance was formed to:
- Encourage the formation of micro-communities within the Lake City planning area,
- Assist with building communication channels between them.
- Provide a regular forum for representatives of these organizations to meet , discuss community issues, and discuss solutions.
- Operate and maintain a system to effectively communicate with outside agencies in regards to policies and planning affecting our neighborhoods.
- Maintaining and presenting pertinent neighborhood information regarding issues, policies, and planning in a publicly accessible way.
- Collectively ACT in a coordinated way to create an atmosphere of safety and realize the goals of our Comprehensive Plan.
Some projects we have been involved with, have helped support, and/ or are working on:
- The Voluntary Alcohol Ban in Lake City
- Establishing communications with elected representatives through Lake City walking tours with 8 of 9 Councilmembers, Senator David Frockt, representatives from the Mayor’s office, representatives from Seattle Police, and representatives from many other city and county departments.
- Data collection and presentation on housing, neighborhood litter, parks and recreation equity, and sidewalks.
- The Mayor’s Interdepartmental Task Force for Lake City.
- Advocacy for a mixed income model of development.
- Advocacy for Community Center funding that resulted in 500,000 budgeted for a programming assessment and physical improvements.
- Advocacy for a Lake City Skate Park.
- Advocacy for an update to our Comprehensive Plan.
- Advocacy for a Business Improvement District / Local Improvement District to identify specific Right of Way improvements as well as a community supported self tax funding mechanism to provide the capital.
Our current member organizations are:
- Cedar Park Community Council
- North Cedar Park Good Neighbor Association
- Douglas Park Cooperative
- Meadowbrook Community Council
- Pinehurst Community Council
- Victory Heights Community Council
- SHAG Cedar Park
- SHAG Victoria Park
- SHA Lake City Court (Community Builder)
- Little Brook
- Hiram Place Association
- North Lake City Neighbors (also providing Asian outreach)
- Luminaire Condos
- Olympic Hills History Buffs
- Techno-Formation Vocation Services (Somali & ELL outreach)
- Lake City Lions Club
- Lake City Greenways
- Lake City Emergency HUB
- Lake City Skate Park
- North Seattle Family Center
- Families for Lake City
- Lake City Community Council
- North Seattle Chamber of Commerce
We will be providing more information in the near future about ongoing projects, advocacy, how we can help your community and how you can help us.