If you missed last night’s meeting:  Superintendent Tim Gallagher gathered ideas from the public for a long-term vision for Magnuson Park.  He encouraged anyone who missed the meeting to email comments to him at Timothy.Gallagher@Seattle.Gov.  Make sure to use his full name — there’s a "Tim.Gallagher" in the City’s transportation department who gets a lot of Parks email!  You can also comment on whether 4:30pm or later on in the evening is a good time for you to participate in future meetings, or just request to join the email notification list for future meetings.

We’re delighted to report that pools were well represented, so you do not need to drown Tim in pool emails right now :). Thanks to all who spoke for pools last night!

What’s next?  Parks is going to organize another meeting where your participation will be important.  Attendees will be broken up into small groups.  Each small group will come up with a future vision for the park — drawing *exclusively* from items mentioned last night, ideas emailed to Tim or existing plans for Magnuson.  Items included in each group’s vision will need to have unanimous support of all members of the group.   This means there will be some horse trading, so having people who care about pools in each group would be a good thing. 

Building 2

Yes, the process to shape the vision for Magnuson will be long, but participation is the only way to get pools (perhaps an indoor/outdoor complex?) back into the vision for Magnuson.

Cool thing we noticed:  A graphic showing Magnuson’s potential actually included a pool as a possibility for the Building 2 site. Building 2 (mapped on the right) occupies a large spot in the Historic District and Parks says it must be demolished — making it a perfect site for pools.  The only other potential use Parks mentioned last night was "Potential film studio."