Neighborhood Development Managers Records
Scope and Contents note
Neighborhood Development Managers, responsible for the 6 city sectors (East, Northeast, Northwest, Southeast, Southwest, and West), facilitated, monitored and coordinated the implementation of adopted neighborhood plans, working with other departments and external public and private agency to ensure implementation of projects identified in the plans. Records include neighborhood plans, maps, correspondence, project files, fact sheets, outreach materials, meeting files, proposals, and subject files concerning the implementation of neighborhood plans. Major projects include Sound Transit Link Light Rail, University Heights Community Center and an Admiral district parking garage. Subjects include urban villages, business development, parks, parking, street improvements, neighborhood safety and amenity projects, and grants. Included are records of the Neighborhood Planning Office concerning ongoing work and the final approval and adoption of neighborhood plans.
Dates
- Creation: 1988-2004
- Creation: 1999-2003
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
14.8 Cubic Feet (37 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Records concerning the implementation of Seattle neighborhood plans and projects.
Arrangement note
Arranged in subseries for six sectors, special projects and managers’ general subject files.
Subject
- Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority (Wash.) (Organization)
- Seattle (Wash.). Neighborhood Planning Office (Organization)
- Seattle (Wash.). Dept. of Neighborhoods (Organization)
- Washington State Convention and Trade Center Corporation (Organization)
- University Heights Center For the Community Association (Organization)
Genre / Form
Geographic
- Beacon Hill (Seattle, Wash.)
- Capitol Hill (Seattle, Wash.)
- Central District (Seattle, Wash.)
- Duwamish (Wash.)
- Georgetown (Seattle, Wash.)
- Greenwood (Seattle, Wash.)
- Longfellow Creek (Wash.)
- Northgate (Seattle, Wash.)
- Rainier Beach (Seattle, Wash.)
- Seattle
- Seattle (Wash.)
- South Park (Seattle, Wash.)
- University District (Seattle, Wash.)
Topical
- Aurora Avenue (Seattle and Shoreline, Wash.)
- Automobile parking -- Washington (State) -- Seattle
- Cities and towns -- Growth -- Washington (State) -- Seattle
- City planning
- Neighborhood planning -- Washington (State) -- Seattle
- Neighborhoods
- Parking facilities -- Washington (State) -- Seattle
- Parks -- Washington (State) -- Seattle
- Street-railroads -- Washington (State) -- Seattle
- Title
- Guide to the Seattle Neighborhood Development Managers Records 1988-2004
- Author
- Finding aid prepared by Janet Ness
- 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/xv87796
Repository Details
Part of the Seattle Municipal Archives Repository