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JULY 7, 2021
VOL. 102, NO. 27
FEATURED STORIES
FYXX Foundation’s Tom Ohmart places a fertility control bait station at the future construction site of the 21Boston development in upper Queen Anne Avenue North, recently. The bait station was one of many placed at the location for a pilot program that aims to decrease rat populations through nontoxic means instead of the lethal poisons traditionally used.
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Swapping poison for birth control New pilot program employs nonlethal methods to decrease rat populations in Queen Anne By Jessica Keller
QA&Mag News editor When a snowy owl touched down among the rooftops and trees on top of Queen Anne last
fall, Tanea Stephens, along with fellow Queen Anne residents and daily visitors, regularly flocked to the side streets off Queen Anne Avenue to admire and photograph the country raptor wintering in
the big city. Affectionately named Yuki — the Japanese word for owl — the snowbird of prey gained celebrity status in Queen Anne. Stephens, the Washington director of Raptors Are The Solution, on the other hand, was concerned for Yuki’s safety. If the bird ate a poisoned rat who consumed a dangerous rodenticide in a bait box along an alley behind Queen Anne North, everybody’s favorite fair-feathered friend could die.
Stephens and other conservationists used Yuki’s time in Queen Anne to educate people about the dangers rodenticides pose to animals like raptors and other predators in the food web that normally eat rats. “You don’t really need to use this really strong poison when there are other safer options,” Stephens said. Now Stephens is expanding on
SEE PILOT, PAGE 5
Effort to protect Magnolia park view moving forward after hearing examiner decision By Jessica Keller
QA&Mag News editor Members of the two community groups arguing against aspects of a development planned for the hillside below Ursula Judkins Viewpoint in Magnolia received a bit of good news last week after their arguments survived an initial challenge by the developer’s attorneys. In May, the Magnolia Community Council and members of
the Last 6000, a Seattle environmental group focused on saving Seattle’s urban forest, each filed appeals to a Seattle Department of Construction and Inspections decision to permit OceanStar, LLC’s proposed development on the hillside below Ursula Judkins Viewpoint and above the Admiral’s House near Pier 91 and the Elliot Bay Marina. According to city documents, the project entails construction of two, three-story single-family
residences, a swimming pool and parking for 12 or 13 vehicles at 2500 W. Marina Place. Last week, Seattle Deputy Hearing Examiner Susan Drummond agreed with OceanStar attorneys that some arguments presented by MCC and Friends of Last 6,000’s as basis for their appeals should be dismissed but ruled other arguments of MCC and Friends of the Last 6,000’s appeal considerations could move forward.
Of the arguments that are moving forward to the appeal hearings in August, Magnolia resident and retired attorney Ted Coulson, who is acting on behalf of Magnolia Community Council until a landuse attorney can be hired, said Drummond allowed arguments supporting each group’s main concerns to move forward. While OceanStar attorneys are protecting the developer’s interests
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