LCG Nov 2025 Newsletter

[El Lee]

Hello!

We’re starting a monthly newsletter to keep you all updated and, hopefully, engaged! Let us know if these are helpful and/or what you’d like to see covered.

NEWS/UPDATES

Oct 15 meeting recap

About 25 of us met in person at the Lake City Library to talk about relaunching! Neighbors shared their concerns and what they’d like to see in Lake City. Gordon Padelford, director of Seattle Neighborhood Greenways, encouraged us to prioritize community building rather than just diving into problem-solving mode right away. Great advice! We determined that our next steps should be setting up regular communications and meetings and walking or biking together to get to know our streets and our each other!

Full meeting notes >

Join our Discord chat!

Going forward, we’ll try to reserve this Google Group for announcements that need wide distribution, like meeting notices, event updates and major news. For more specific conversations and topic-based discussions, we’ll use Discord instead. This allows us to be more organized, keep the emails to a minimum, and communicate easier with the other neighborhood groups. 

You can join the general Discord chat with this invite link. We’ll create additional channels as we get started on projects and form committees!

UPCOMING EVENTS

You can also see these events on our shared Google Calendar!

35th Ave NE walking tour

🗓️ Sunday, Nov. 9, noon

⭐ Lake City resident Darcy will host a walking tour of 35th Ave NE between Erickson Pl NE and NE 145th St. SDOT expects to send a representative.

📍 Meet at: 35th Ave NE and Erickson Pl NE

Lake City: Challenges and Opportunities

🗓️ Saturday, Nov. 1, 10 a.m.–noon

⭐ Join the 46th District Democrats and local leaders and advocates (Chris Leverson, Small Business Advocate; Katie Wilson, Transit Riders Union, Rep. Darya Farivar, 46th District Representative) on the issues shaping Lake City’s future. Email elj...@gmail.com if you’d like to help table for Lake City Greenways!

📍 Akin Building, 12360 Lake City Way NE

Holiday Lights ride

🗓️ TBD, sometime in Dec

⭐Festive group bike ride 

📍 TBD, route to come

Lake City Greenways Meeting

🗓️ Wednesday, Jan 14, 6-7:30 p.m.

⭐ Next in-person meeting to discuss projects

📍 Lake City Library meeting room

Lake City Art Walk

🗓️ Every third Thursday, 5-8 p.m.

⭐ Not a LCG event, but we’re fans of anything that promotes a vibrant, walkable Lake City! Come out and support local small businesses and artists. 

📍 Retail core, Seattle Restored to Hellbent on Lake City Way NE

RESOURCES

• SDOT's Traffic Volume and Crash Data

• These are fascinating. And can be a total time sink, be warned!

• SDOT’s NE 130th St & NE 125th St Mobility and Safety Project

• Construction starts on NE 125th St in mid-November!   

JUST FOR FUN

From Rails to Trails is a PBS documentary on the story of a 60-year struggle to convert abandoned railroads into trails for cycling and walking. The Burke-Gilman features prominently!

YouTuber explains Why Americans Don't Walk to School Anymore

[eljlee]

Sorry, one of the dates was incorrect! Lake City: Challenges and Opportunities is Sunday Nov. 9!