City forum

Open ideas

1. 6 votes

   1

   Objectively and regularly evaluate the effects of Food Banks and Feeding programs
2. 8 votes

   1

   support innovative and successful programs like the Drug Market Initiative
3. 14 votes

   3

   Simplify restrictions on affordable housing funds
4. 21 votes

   2

   Environmentally & economically sustainable connections between trunk transit & offline neighborhoods
5. 22 votes

   2

   Split the north precinct into 2-4 smaller precincts
6. 23 votes

   2

   Support community, create and increase truly free public spaces (indoor and outdoor) where people.
7. 34 votes

   3

   Emphasize internet literacy and safety in schools
8. 43 votes

   2

   Close the feedback loop, have city employees return emails and calls
9. 44 votes

   1

   Encourage city workers, especially SDOT, to work remotely
10. 47 votes

    3

    Attract trades to urban core
11. 50 votes

    2

    Fund all food banks by the same formula. (WCFB) They are overburdened!
12. 55 votes

    3

    Bring housing advocates and transit advocates together to come up with a holistic solution
13. 63 votes

    1

    Increase resources for aging in place initives; have the infastructure in place to meet the demand
14. 66 votes

    1

    Create "safe, well-lit" communities
15. 66 votes

    2

    Provide bicycle parking at major street fairs and markets
16. 71 votes

    2

    Support neighborhood work centers to encourage telecommuting and support independent professionals
17. 72 votes

    1

    Engage the communities most affected
18. 73 votes

    2

    Innovative new ideas for parks
19. 76 votes

    3

    Recruit officers from within communities
20. 77 votes

    1

    Provide Google Map with crime data updated daily
21. 78 votes

    2

    Provide training & tools (laptops, smartphones) to help seniors engage w/ social networking.
22. 79 votes

    2

    Engage community leaders
23. 94 votes

    1

    Form a homelessness alliance to bring all parties to the table
24. 94 votes

    2

    Requirement for high-density family housing
25. 94 votes

    1

    Give the Planning Commission Some Teeth
26. 95 votes

    1

    Sidewalks
27. 95 votes

    2

    recognize that we have an aging population that will become highly transit-dependent
28. 108 votes

    3

    Invest in vocational programs
29. 111 votes

    2

    Place emphasis on housing close to places of employment.
30. 116 votes

    3

    Make child care a priority
31. 131 votes

    1

    Enforce Developer Impact Fees
32. 132 votes

    3

    More and better neighborhood parks
33. 136 votes

    3

    Assign officers who reflect the community they patrol
34. 136 votes

    3

    Listen to neighborhood councils
35. 154 votes

    2

    Look at homelessness, disabilities, and addiction wholistically
36. 156 votes

    2

    Create a tool for following City Council legislation that makes it easier to participate
37. 161 votes

    3

    Support all-ages venues and offer more youth programs
38. 164 votes

    3

    Create intergenerational programs
39. 176 votes

    2

    Incentives for locally owned businesses
40. 188 votes

    2

    Change zoning to discourage bad townhomes and encourage great urban housing
41. 209 votes

    1

    Promote family-friendly urban neighborhoods
42. 245 votes

    3

    Build new streetcars and restore the Waterfront Streetcar
43. 249 votes

    2

    Implement the Seattle Broadband Initiative to bring affordable broadband to all Seattle residents
44. 270 votes

    1

    Fund and Hire More Police
45. 628 votes

    3

    Secure a new source of funding for City libraries similar to King County Library, to avoid closures.
46. 655 votes

    3

    Increase late-night transportation options
47. 1,586 votes

    1

    Free Wireless Internet Throughout the City
48. 4,108 votes

    2

    Expand as much light rail and subway as possible

Completed ideas

1. 2 votes

   2

   Put the bike ideas into the transportation section. completed

Youth and Families Initiative forum

Open ideas

1. 19 votes

   2

   Offer incentives to parents to participate in education policy
2. 40 votes

   2

   Fund family support workers who go on home visits
3. 40 votes

   3

   Increase the number of Summer Food Program sites
4. 128 votes

   2

   Introduce senior teacher positions with salary comparable to administrative positions
5. 154 votes

   1

   Offer a way to open schools in the evening to the community
6. 181 votes

   3

   Invest in intervention programs that target at-risk youth in elementary school.