November 15, 2017 The Skanner Page 5
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Calendar 2017
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Seattle Metro
SATURDAY – SUNDAY, NOV. 18 – 19
FREE WEIRD ARTS & CRAFTS SHOW: Oddmall Arts & Crafts shows
celebrate uniqueness, creativity, imagination, and wonder. It’s
a show where artists and crafters offer unusual creations for
your consideration. This is a free event. Everett Community Col-
lege, 2000 Tower St., Everett.
SATURDAY – WEDNESDAY, NOV.18 – 29
PHOTO BY SUSAN FRIED
FREE FESTIVAL OF TREES IN DOWNTOWN SEATTLE: Gorgeous de-
signer Christmas Trees will be on display in the public area of
Fairmont Olympic Hotel. Come down to view them at any time
(open 24 hours a day) and read the inspiring stories of featured
Seattle Children’s patients. Fairmont Olympic Hotel, 411 Univer-
sity St.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24
Hip Hop History
The legendary DJ Vitamin D spun records during Daudi Abe, a Seattle-based professor, writer, and historian’s talk titled “Emerald Street:
Race, Class, Culture, and the History of Hip Hop in the Northwest” in front of a packed house Nov. 9 at the Northwest African American
Museum.
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of America’s master dramatists, best known for his
American Century Cycle — a group of 10 plays, each
exploring a different decade in the 20th Century. Wil-
son was a revolutionary thinker, championing Black
theatre and the idea that the African American ver-
nacular, or way of speaking, should be celebrated and
exalted instead of
ignored, corrected
or cleaned up.
All students par-
ticipating in the
August
Wilson
Monologue Com-
petition work un-
der the guidance
of professional ac-
tors and directors
to not only learn Hailey Kilgore, 2015 August Wilson
and engage with Monologue Competition Participant
August Wilson’s
work, but also to grow their confidence, poise and
ability to connect with other students, theater profes-
sionals and community leaders.
The program culminates in a public regional finals
performance at the Newmark Theatre on Feb. 26,
2018. Participating students are judged by a panel
of top theater professionals, three students receive
prizes in the Portland competition, and two are se-
lected to advance to the national competition in New
York City.
In February 2017, Roosevelt High School student
Alexis Cannard won first prize in the Portland Re-
gional Finals for the August Wilson Monologue
Competition. In May of the same year, she performed
her monologue on Broadway, competing against high
school students from nine other cities. Cannard took
home the third place trophy in New York. In February
2015, Hailey Kilgore won second place in the Portland
Regional Finals. Three months ago, Kilgore was cast
as the lead in the Broadway revival of Once on This
Island.
There’s no cost to apply for or participate in the
AWMC and all students who apply will be able to au-
dition for a spot in the Regional Finals. All high school
students are welcome to apply. Because the mission of
the Red Door Project is to change the racial ecology of
Portland through the arts, the Red Door seeks a pool
of applicants who represent the growing diversity of
the student body of Portland area public schools.
For more information or to apply, visit http://red-
doorproject.org.
Seattle News Briefs
Mayor, Council Unveil Affordability
and Growth Plan
Last week Mayor Tim Burgess and Councilmember
Rob Johnson proposed a plan to implement Manda-
tory Housing Affordability (MHA) requirements on
new development across Seattle that will meet the
City’s goal of at least 6,000 new rent-restricted homes
for low-income people over the next decade.
Councilmember Rob Johnson (District 4, Northeast
Seattle) said, “We all want to keep Seattle a welcom-
ing, affordable city for families and people of all in-
comes, now and into the future. I’m excited to be one
step closer on this key strategy which will create
thousands of rent and income-restricted homes as
we grow. Over the coming months, I look forward to
continuing to work with my colleagues and the com-
munity as we implement MHA citywide.”
The Council has already unanimously implement-
ed affordable housing requirements on new devel-
opment in six neighborhoods (University District,
Downtown, South Lake Union, Chinatown-Interna-
tional District, along 23rd Ave in the Central Area,
and Uptown). By extending MHA to Seattle’s other ur-
ban villages, as well as all other existing multifamily
residential and commercial zones, new development
will generate the rent- and income-restricted homes
to meet the City’s 10-year goal.
Seattle continues to
experience some of the
fastest housing cost in-
creases in the nation,
with the average rent for
a one-bedroom apart-
ment rising 35 percent
in the last five years. To-
day 45,000 Seattle house-
holds spend more than
half of their income on
housing. Under MHA,
the cost of a rent-restrict-
ed two-bedroom apart-
Seattle Mayor Tim Burgess
ment for a family of four
earning $57,600 would be
$1,296. For an individual making less than $40,320, a
one-bedroom would cost $1,008.
The City is proposing zoning changes necessary to
implement MHA in all urban villages and multifami-
ly and commercial zones. The affordable housing re-
quirements take effect when the Seattle City Council
adopts new zoning that adds development capacity.
By enacting affordable housing requirements and de-
velopment capacity increases at the same time, MHA
is consistent with a state-approved approach used in
other Washington cities.
The City’s proposal directs future housing growth
based on racial and social equity principles consis-
tent with the Seattle 2035 Comprehensive Plan:
Increase housing choices throughout Seattle, with
more housing in areas with low risk of displacement
and high access to opportunity (transit, parks, jobs,
and other critical resources).
• In areas with high risk of displacement of low-in-
come people and communities of color, focus in-
creased housing choices and jobs within a 5-minute
WASHINGTON STATE PARKS OFFERS FREE DAY: Recreation and
outdoor enthusiast have another chance to get out and enjoy
the State Parks for free. On this day, day use visitors will NOT
need a Discovery Pass for your vehicle to access any of the
State Parks. 8 a.m. – 6 p.m., Washington State Parks.
walk of frequent transit.
• Expand 10 urban villages to provide more housing
options within a 10-minute walk of frequent tran-
sit.
• Minimize growth in environmentally sensitive ar-
eas and propose less intensive changes within 500
feet of major freeways.
• Make no zoning changes in federally designated
historic districts and critical shorelines.
Maps of the proposed zoning changes are available
at www.seattle.gov/hala. No zoning changes are pro-
posed for single family zones outside Seattle’s urban
villages and urban village expansion areas.
Mayor Burgess, Councilmember
González Celebrate Council
Adoption of SPD Leadership Labor
Agreement
Mayor Tim Burgess and Councilmember M. Lorena
González (Position 9, Citywide) issued the following
statements after the Seattle City Council approved a
new collective bargaining agreement with the Seattle
Police Management Association (SPMA), which rep-
resents Seattle Police Department lieutenants and
captains.
Agreement details include an explicit agreement
with SPMA that civilian authority will be the norm
in police oversight, as outlined in Seattle’s police ac-
countability ordinance. This means all investigations
of complaints against police will be supervised by
civilians rather than sworn officers—a major step in
the civilianization of police oversight.
SPMA is also voluntarily endorsing body worn
video for the Department’s supervisors. And this
agreement ends an Unfair Labor Practice claim by
the union that would have been costly and further
delayed implementation of Seattle’s police reform
legislation.
Finally, this agreement sends a strong message to
our federal and local consent decree partners that the
city of Seattle, including its police officers, are truly
embracing reform.
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