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MARCH 10, 2021
VOL. 102, NO. 10
Whole lot of love in Magnolia Fundraising drive to match streetscape pledge reaches goal
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By Jessica Keller
QA&Mag News editor
DR. UNIVERSE
The Reimagine Magnolia Village beautification campaign is ready to launch a new round of improvements after a February Love Match fundraising drive exceeded the desired goal. Magnolia Beautification Committee organizers asked the community to contribute $25,000 during the month of February for Magnolia Village Love Match campaign. It started after a lifelong Magnolia resident approached them about anonymously donating $25,000 to the streetscape improvements in Magnolia Village, provided the community participated and matched that amount. Cheryl McQuiston, chair of the Magnolia Beautification Committee, announced last week that Magnolia residents were generous during the February campaign, donating $40,000 during the Love Match drive. The anonymous donor was so pleased with the efforts, he agreed to match the entire amount donated by the community. “He is over-the-top excited to know that his money worked in that way and that the community stepped up to the plate,” McQuiston said. McQuiston said the $80,000 infusion of funds brings the phase 2 and 3 donations to $205,000, with $100,000 left of the $305,000
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Photo by Jessica Keller Residents take advantage of the sunshine and the outdoor seating and other improvements made along McGraw Street during Phase 1 of the Reimagine Magnolia Village campaign last summer. After a successful matching fund campaign in February, imSEE MAGNOLIA, PAGE 3 provements for the village identified in phases 2 and 3 can begin next week.
District 7 councilmember’s efforts to combat homelessness gaining ground By Jessica Keller
QA&Mag News editor District 7 Councilmember Andrew Lewis has started 2021 with two separate campaigns to provide additional housing for the city’s unsheltered, following through on efforts he began last year. Last week, the Seattle City Council unanimously approved legislation Lewis sponsored to expedite and fast track permanent
supportive housing in Seattle. Permanent supportive housing is housing primarily intended for very low-income households that are exiting homelessness and typically developed with on-site supportive services. Council Bill 119975 amended the city’s land use code to include a new definition for permanent supportive housing; established new regulations and procedures for developing PSH; and modi-
fied existing regulations to remove barriers to PSH. According to the legislation text, half of the permanent supportive housing units in a development will be occupied by households with average median incomes of up to of 30 percent of Seattle levels and the other half occupied by households with average median incomes of up to 50 percent. The legislation also eliminates requirements to in-
clude space for bicycle storage and exempts permanent supportive housing sites from having to go through the design review board in favor of a community meeting. “Throughout the drafting of this, I really wanted to make sure that this legislation was really targeted to the population of folks that we’re really trying to carve
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