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We managed to attend the Shoreline City Council Meeting held today in
the Shoreline Community Center, where the main topic of discussion was
the construction of a little-league baseball field in Shoreview (Boeing
Creek) Park. There were two options presented: Option 1 is to build the
baseball field on the triangle of land between the access road off of NW
Innis Arden Way and the tennis courts, and Option 2 is the area down the
hill to the West from the existing baseball field.

Following a series of well-delivered presentations by the experts hired
by the City of Shoreline to study the project and headed by the City
Manager of the City of Shoreline, Robert Deis (reports were presented by
McCloud Records, Molly Adolfson of Adolfson & Associates, Ray Robertson
(schematics), and Doug Mattoon (project lead), which all tended to
support Option 1 (in terms of environmental impact and $$$) and a number
of individual statements generally, but not exclusively, in favor of
Option 1, the Council took an apparently informal vote on how to proceed
further. The voting was as follows:

Scott Jepsen, Mayor - Leaning towards option 2
Linda Montgomery, Deputy Mayor - leaning towards Option 1
Cheryl Lee, Council Member - leaning towards Option 1
Ronald Hansen, Council Member - Option 2
Robert Ransom, Council Member - Strongly in favor of Option 2
Rich Gustafson, Council Member - Strongly in favor of Option 2

Results of the voting: Four in favor of placing the baseball field to
the immediate west of the present baseball field, two (weakly) against.
This will now become Option 1, as far as the City Council is concerned.

At the risk of betraying my bias, I can't help but pass along a comment
made by Robert Ransom in support of Option 2: "If we let this go now and
go with Option 1, then Alternative 2 in the course of 10 years will grow
up and become even more habitat than it is now. We should go with
Alternative 2 now, and then in ten years, we can go ahead and get
Alternative 1, and have two baseball fields."

There is no mailing list for updates on this matter, but the "Agenda
Line" for meetings of Shoreline City Council is: (206) 546-2190.

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John & Anne Winskie
Winskie Services
winskie at cmc.net
Edmonds, WA 98020