Per the local senior center's website, the senior center has served about 1,750 older adults, offering more than 6,000 meals, 1,600 footcare appointments, 1,300 fitness classes and more than 600 educational and recreational workshops.

The senior center itself is more than 50 years old!

There's a lot of discussion about chain link fences as exterior materials. A new amendment would ban untreated chain link fencing in commercial zones "unless screened from public view."

Rolling through a few public comments that have been submitted to the city: one is very upset about the idea of public funding for housing, as well as references to "anti-racism" and "past harms."
"Equality is the law of the land. Equity is a racist structure that implies reparations."
Oh, bud.

At the end of the staff presentation on development code amendments, staff asked the council:
"Are there any questions? Because we do have slides."

That...felt very much like he was saying "please, please ask questions."

Looks like I'm going to go back and check on that.

In the meantime, check out the staff report here: shoreline.granicus.com/MetaViewer.p...

Huh. So while I was writing up public comment, the council ran through the first item — discussing comprehensive plan amendments — pretty quickly.
No comments from the public, and just a bit of discussion from Councilmember Ramsdell, who lives in an area that would be affected by density changes.

She's upset because the first request went in a year ago, and went nowhere. A follow-up request by school staff was sent out this year, and — according to the comment — the city said it needed to do an "extended study on how it would affect all middle schools."

Two, Maris Appleson, is concerned about traffic around the middle schools. She's among a group of residents worried about drivers barreling through dark crosswalks as kids walk to school. Requests from community and the school district to have flashing stop signs and school zone signs have stalled.

Now, public comment! Only two speakers today.
One, Todd Greenwood, is concerned about increased density on his street with regard to the comprehensive plan amendments being discussed tonight.

There's also a Winter Market coming up at Sky Nursery on Nov. 15-16; the inaugural ShoreLights event begins Nov. 15; the next council meeting is Nov. 17; the next planning commission meeting is Nov. 20; and the parks and trees board meets on Dec. 4!

First things first, a SUPER BUSY weekend in Shoreline coming up! The city is joining in a community food drive ahead of Thanksgiving (and amid...*waves hands* everything); tomorrow, Nov. 11, the city will have a Veteran's Day program at 3 p.m.; and on Nov. 13, there will be a pool design open house.