VOTE NOW for Street & Park Improvements in Our Neighborhood

Time to vote on which street & park improvements get funded with YVYC monies.

The annual ‘Your Voice, Your Choice’ (YVYC) vote takes place now through July 16^th, and gives everyone, age 13 and older, a chance to select which projects will be funded – out of a list of 1,000 projects submitted at public meetings held around the city last January.

Every Seattle citizen can vote on-line, or in person at any Seattle Public Library branch. The vote will be on how to spend $2 million on park and street improvements around the city. The projects were submitted and will be voted upon by district, with seven districts covering the entire city and each district allowed to spend a total of $285,000 on their projects. Citizens can only vote in one district, but they can self-select their district depending on where they live, work, receive services, volunteer, and/or play.

One of the proposed street improvements on the YVYC District #6 ballot - temporary curb bulbs along Leary Way at 41st. Photo provided by YVYC — One of the proposed street improvements on the YVYC District #6 ballot – temporary curb bulbs along Leary Way at 41st. Photo provided by YVYC

Each ballot will allow voters to select their three favorite projects in one district. The projects that receive the most votes will funded and implemented by the City in 2019.

The Fremont neighborhood is part of District #6 (west of Aurora Avenue,) and District #4 (east of Aurora Avenue.) While each district has several projects on the ballot (9 in #4 and 11 in #6), each one contains some street improvement projects proposed for Fremont.

In District #4:

Project #18-402 – bicycle crossing improvements along the Burke-Gilman Trail at N 34^th St & Stone Way
Project #18-413 – crossing improvements at Woodland Park Ave N and N 46^th St, and N Midvale Pl and N 45^th St

In District #6:

Project #18-682 – bicycle improvements on 8^th Ave NW, at Leary Way NW
Project #18-671 – crossing improvements on N 39^th St, at Phinney Ave N
Project #18-672 – all-way stop installation at N 39^th St & Linden Ave N
Project #18-604 – temporary installation of curb bulbs on Leary Way NW at NW 41^st St

Proposed changes to the intersection of Stone Way & N 34th St, and the Burke Gilman Trail, on the YVYC District #4 ballot in 2018. Photo provided by YVYC

Only a few projects will be chosen from each district – and possibly only one or two, depending on costs. Projects will be selected based on number of votes received.

Another $1 million of the money for YVYC will be specifically directed towards Equity and Environment Initiative focus areas – geographic areas identified as places where immigrants, peoples of color, refugees, low-income residents, Native peoples and/or those with limited English proficiency live. Projects voted on in these areas will be implemented with these additional funds. Find more on the City of Seattle Equity & Environment Initiative website.

The winning projects will be announced in August. You can find more information about the YVYC program, and voting, on the Seattle.gov website.