Weigh in on 24th Ave NW street-end designs

Meghan Walker Ballard

The street-end of 24th Ave NW will eventually become a designated public space, and Seattle Public Utilities is asking for feedback on what it should look like.

The Ship Canal Water Quality Project, aimed at reducing sewer overflow into the Ship Canal, is expected to take around five years to complete. It’s headed up by Seattle Public Utilities and the King County Wastewater Treatment Division, and much of the work is taking place on or near the Ballard property at 24th Ave NW and NW Shilshole Ave.

For the next few years, much of 24th near the Ship Canal will be a construction site, but will eventually become the site of the Ballard Pump Station. When it’s finished, SPU wants to design the street-end to become a public place. To that end, they’ve made an online survey so residents can weigh in on the four design concepts they’ve come up with.

Here are the four concepts:

The survey will be open until Jan. 10, 2020. Another way to give feedback is in person at a drop-in session today (Wednesday, Dec. 11) from 5pm to 7pm at the Ballard Library.

The water quality project will create a 2.7-mile underground storage tunnel from Ballard to Wallingford in order to reduce the amount of polluted stormwater and sewage that overflows into the Lake Washington Ship Canal, Salmon Bay, and Lake Union during heavy rains. To learn more, visit the project website.

5 thoughts to “Weigh in on 24th Ave NW street-end designs”

    1. That’s what you and your ilk say about every new park, including Gemenskap Park. Your sensationalist hand wringing predictions never comes to fruition and you look like fools.

      Luckily, Seattle has all but stopped listening to you and your ilk, and as a result, we get nice new parks!

  2. I say donate it to the Ballard Coalition businesses so they can park their trucks, they will STFU, and the rest of the taxpaying community will get our multi-use path.

  3. I don’t see anything for heroin addicts and junkies to sell heroin and inject heroin into themselves. This needs to create space for them and the RVs that will be abandoned after emptying waste into the Sound. Let’s be progressive about it and enable that activity.

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