Neighborhood Preservation and Development Director’s Records
Scope and Contents note
Applications, correspondence, memoranda, reports, staff notes and other materials related to the Neighborhood Preservation and Development Director. Materials are divided into three subseries: Neighborhood Planning Implementation Advisory Committee (later the Neighborhood Planning Committee), Neighborhood Street Fund and Cumulative Reserve Fund, and Subject Files. The Subject Files contain material on allocations and budgets, neighborhood and street improvements, and transportation issues, as well as files on specific neighborhoods.
Dates
- Creation: 1998-2005
Creator
- Seattle (Wash.). Dept. of Neighborhoods (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access note
Records are open to the public.
Historical Note
The Department of Neighborhoods was created in 1991 by consolidating staff from the Executive Department's Citizens Service Bureau and Office of Neighborhoods, the Community Service Centers of the Department of Human Resources, and the Neighborhood Assistance Division of the Department of Community Development. The Office of Urban Conservation, the City's historic preservation agency, was added in 1992. The following year, the department added a community development function by taking over projects in the Central Area, Southeast Seattle, and the Port of Seattle. In 1999, the Neighborhood Planning Office was abolished and its continuing functions were assumed by the Department of Neighborhoods. The Department's mission is to bring local government closer to the citizens by maintaining a responsive presence in Seattle neighborhoods, by responding to citizen concerns and complaints, and providing a communications link for neighborhoods on City issues that will have an impact on them. The department operates the Neighborhood Service Centers (Little City Halls), administers the Neighborhood Matching Grant Program, staffs the Landmarks Preservation Board, and manages the P-Patch program.
Full Extent
6.6 Cubic Feet (17 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Records created by the director of the Neighborhood Preservation and Development Division of the Seattle Department of Neighborhoods.
Separated Materials note
Publications were pulled from the ca_collections.idno and are cataloged separately in the Published Documents Index.
Subject
- Herzfeld, Rebecca (Person)
- Seattle (Wash.). Dept. of Neighborhoods (Organization)
- Title
- Guide to the Seattle Neighborhood Preservation and Development Director’s Records 1998-2004
- Author
- Finding aid prepared by Megan O'Shea and Julie Kerssen
- Date
- © 2010
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
- Sponsor
- Funding for processing this record series was provided through a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.
- EAD Location
- http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv07864
Repository Details
Part of the Seattle Municipal Archives Repository