County and Burien say they’ve worked out the Puget Sound Park controversy

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010 Posted in King County, Puget Sound Park, White Center news | Comments Off on County and Burien say they’ve worked out the Puget Sound Park controversy

This just in from County Executive Dow Constantine's office: King County Executive Dow Constantine and Burien Mayor Joan McGilton today announced an agreement for King County to transfer ownership of Puget ... Read more..

Puget Sound Park’s future cloudy again: What we’ve found out so far

Friday, November 20th, 2009 Posted in Puget Sound Park, White Center news | Comments Off on Puget Sound Park’s future cloudy again: What we’ve found out so far

View Larger Map Seven months ago, Puget Sound Park in White Center was reported to be in danger of being sold by King County for a housing project. A citizen outcry ... Read more..

Puget Sound Park off the sale list: Greg Duff’s postscript

Tuesday, April 14th, 2009 Posted in North Highline UAC, Puget Sound Park | Comments Off on Puget Sound Park off the sale list: Greg Duff’s postscript

View Larger Map We want to share this letter, sent to us as a followup to yesterday's report (and our previous coverage, archived here). We appreciate WCN being included in the ... Read more..

Constantine: Puget Sound Park off the list

Monday, April 13th, 2009 Posted in Parks, Puget Sound Park | Comments Off on Constantine: Puget Sound Park off the list

We'd spoken with two county executive staffers about this last week and hadn't even finished the followup yet, but now it's a moot point - this just in from County ... Read more..

Constantine to Sims: Take Puget Sound Park off the list now

Friday, April 3rd, 2009 Posted in Puget Sound Park, White Center news | 4 Comments »

(click to see a larger version of the letter) Following up on last night's update of the Puget Sound Park sale-proposal situation - that's the letter County Council Chair Dow Constantine ... Read more..

North Highline UAC report #1: Puget Sound Park sale fight

Thursday, April 2nd, 2009 Posted in North Highline UAC, Parks, Politics, Puget Sound Park, White Center news | Comments Off on North Highline UAC report #1: Puget Sound Park sale fight

View Larger Map First of two reports from tonight's North Highline Unincorporated Area Council meeting -- this one, focusing on the intensifying controversy over the county proposal to sell Puget Sound ... Read more..

Puget Sound Park sale opponent issues a call to action

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009 Posted in King County, Parks, Puget Sound Park, White Center news | 4 Comments »

Much controversy and concern has been brewing around the prospect of King County selling parkland in North Highline, including Puget Sound Park, for "affordable housing" -- here's the full list ... Read more..