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Lynn Street Park: New and Improved

Aug 01, 2002 -- EASTLAKE-- Waterfront street ends are being remade all over town, thanks in large part to the Pro Parks levy passed in 2000. One such park is little Lynn St. Park, nestled among houseboats and wharves in Eastlake.

The Lynn St. Park project includes poured concrete and wood sitting steps, a picnic table, decorative tiles and, coming in fall, landscaping. On a recent sunny afternoon, locals enjoyed the sun on the new steps, with everyone and their dogs dabbling their feet (or more) in the water.

Landscaping of the park will happen this Fall, according to Dan Johnson, project manager for the Parks & Recreation department. People interested in helping with the planting should call him at (206) 684-7149.

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katie	Jun 02, 2003	seattle	student
lynn street park is absoloutly beautiful!!! The community has really come togeher to create a wonderful place to go to think or look at the water! it has been really neat over the last few months to see more and more people using the park!


Glenn Shelly	Jan 17, 2004	San Francisco Bay, CA	The Broker: NORPAC
Any photographs of Lynn Street Park would be gratefully received here ... My Best regards, Glenn


Alex	Apr 14, 2004	Wallinngford, Seattle	"near neighbor"
We canoe to the Lynn Street Park, bring a snack or not, and feel lke we are having a pleasant little vacation in a part of Seattle we don't know. We have found the same sort of delight in other parts of town, where we might feel like strangers--a small street end gives us access to some special understanding of another place. Now in our front yard, there is a street end that was given away to Pioneer Sand and Gravel in 1953, by the City of Seattle. (You know where the Kalakala was berthed?) A small group of "near neighbors" is trying to assert the public right to the streetend lake access on that property. The people who seek to privately develop it seem to be terribly well organized and well funded. It would be wonderful, seems to me, if people outside Wallingford, who see access to Lake Union as a public trust that can't be casually given away by public officials who side with business, whether or not it respects the citizens or the environmental issues (and there are a few of those). Cheers to all Friends of Streetends, and people who enjoy and care for Lake Union.