Neighborhood Planning Office director's subject files, 1994-1999.

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Neighborhood Planning Office director's subject files, 1994-1999.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/123945262

The subject files, created by former director Karma Ruder, include correspondence, memoranda, agendas, notes, and policy drafts. Documents in many files relate to work the NPO did with many other city departments, such as City Light, the Dept. of Construction and Land Use, Seattle Engineering Dept., the Dept. of Neighborhoods, the Office of Economic Development, the Office of Management and Planning, and the Dept. of Parks and Recreation. Subjects include the budget, transportation issues such as urban trails and bicycling, parks and open space, interaction with the City Council, inter-departmental agreements, neighborhoods, lighting and water reservoirs in communities, an agreement that the new baseball stadium would give money to neighborhoods, the Seattle Millenium Project, the Neighborhood Planning Data Viewer Geographical Information System project, a partnership with the non-profit Sustainable Seattle group, and the neighborhoods planning process.

1.6 cubic ft. (4 boxes)

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