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VOL. 103, NO. 45
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Photo by Laura Marie Rivera The crane looming over the 21Boston site at the former Safeway location on Queen Anne hill has been of great interest to residents who stop by to watch the construction progress. Residents participated in a community-wide effort to name the equipment, which will be a fixture until late 2023.
AND THE NAME IS …
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This month, Queen Anne residents have participated in a community-led effort to name the crane that towers over upper Queen Anne and the former Safeway site under construction. After polling residents for name suggestions,
votes were submitted for four finalists: Frasier, Kirby, Cranium and Calvin — after Calvin Clark, a popular, longtime mailman on Queen Anne who is retiring this year. While the final results were close, residents have spoken and decided the crane should be named: CALVIN, which edged out runner-up Frasier.
The crane, owned by Compass Construction, is a Liebherr 630EC-H Litronic, and will be used to do the heavy lifting at the construction site until late 2023. It is 157 feet tall and can be seen from I-5 and the ferries coming into Seattle from Puget Sound. The jib is 267 feet long.
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Redistricting committee splits Magnolia; community effort underway to challenge By Jessica Keller
QA & Magnolia News editor The Seattle Redistricting Committee might have split Magnolia into two council districts in its final map submitted to the county last week, but residents unhappy with the decision can still protest the decision. The Magnolia Community Council in the past month launched a fundraising effort to support community members who wish to challenge the final City Council map presented to the county by appealing. The redistricting committee was charged with redrawing council district map boundaries this year to reflect changes in population. Because
District 7, currently represented by Councilmember Andrew Lewis, grew the most, boundary adjustments had to be made to reflect that growth and redistribute populations in council districts more equitably. COMMUNITY CONCERNS Throughout the process, Magnolia organizations such as the Community Council and the Chamber of Commerce have protested proposals to divide Magnolia into more than one council district, in this case districts 6 and 7, and separate the neighborhood from Queen Anne. One of the earlier map proposals had Magnolia split into districts 6 and 7, dividing Magnolia Village in the process. In response, more than
3,000 comments were submitted to the redistricting committee voicing their disapproval and recommending the neighborhood be kept whole. At the beginning of October, it looked like those arguments worked as the redistricting committee approved an amended map that kept Magnolia together. Commissioners reconsidered that map in the last month, and the final map approved and submitted to the county Nov. 15 entailed splitting Magnolia into two, but keeping Magnolia Village whole. At last week’s Magnolia Community Council meeting, members discussed how successful an appeal to the map could be and how MCC could
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