Median along 36th Ave NW between NW 60th and 62nd and the connection along NW 61st & 38th Ave NW to the Burke Gilman Trail and Seaview.

In 2008, Sunset Hill neighbors came together to improve the corridor between Sunset Hill and Shilshole Ave. With fiscal sponsorship from groundswell NW and support from the Sunset Hill Community Association, they applied for and received a Department of Neighborhoods Small and Simple Matching grant to develop a concept plan to improve this important corridor and then to do one or more modest landscape enhancement projects. The grant paid for a design consultant, Barker Landscape Architects to work with the community, City departments and adjacent private property owners to create a plan to:

• remove noxious and invasive plants

• plant low growing, drought tolerant plants in the median ends to improve visibility and sight lines

• improve the pedestrian connections (a separate application to the Neighborhood Street Fund led to improving the crossing at 36th and 62nd)

• beautify the area and increase the pleasures of walking, biking and driving

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