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July 1, 2016
AIA Seattle will hold a free program titled “Why I-123 doesn't add up” at 5:30 p.m. July 14 at 1010 Western Ave.
Co-sponsors of the event are Seattle Parks Foundation and the Downtown Seattle Association.
The program will focus on the future of Seattle's waterfront, the vision the three organizations support for a well-designed waterfront and why they oppose Initiative 123.
The city plans to redevelop the waterfront from Pioneer Square to Belltown, funded by public and private money. That project has been delayed by two years because of problems with the machine that is boring a tunnel through downtown to replace the Alaskan Way Viaduct.
Initiative 123 will be on the Aug. 2 ballot. If enacted, it will establish a public development authority to build and operate a mile-long elevated park on a new “garden bridge” from Pike Place Market to CenturyLink Field as well as other amenities along Alaskan Way. Proponents said a block-long section of the viaduct that straddles Pike Street would be retrofitted and retained, and become part of the park. The PDA would seek public and private funding.
Speakers at the AIA Seattle event include Mark Reddington and Patrick Gordon, former co-chairs of Seattle's Design Oversight Committee for the Seattle Central Waterfront; Heidi Hughes, executive director of Friends of Waterfront Seattle; and Walter Schacht, a public policy board member and former president of AIA Seattle. The discussion will be moderated by Osama Quotah of the AIA Seattle public policy board.
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