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Lawsuit over Fort Lawton affordable housing project dismissed after two-year court battle
Fort Lawton at Discovery Park. (Joe Wolf, Flickr Creative Commons)
In 2019, the Seattle City Council unanimously voted to convert 35 acres of the city’s historic Fort Lawton situated next to Discovery Park into affordable housing. Nearly two years later, a court battle that has kept that project in limbo may finally be coming to an end.
That fight began with a lawsuit filed by Elizabeth Campbell shortly after the council approved the project, arguing that the Fort Lawton area is often needed for overflow parking for neighboring Discovery Park, and that she had concerns over neighborhood safety should affordable housing residents move into the Magnolia neighborhood.
Apr 28, 2021
WILBERT A memorial service for Velmer J. Meier, 95, of Wilbert, Minn., will be 10:30 a.m. Saturday, May 1, 2021, at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Wilbert, Minn. Burial will follow the service in St. Paul’s Lutheran Church Cemetery, with full military honors by the Nassen-Detert American Legion Post 529 and Welcome American Legion Post 553. Visitation will be from 9:30-10:30 a.m. Saturday, May 1, 2021, at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Wilbert.
Velmer passed away Sunday, April 25, 2021, at his home near Wilbert. Lakeview Funeral Home and Cremation Service in Fairmont is assisting the family with arrangements.
Velmer J. Meier was born Feb. 23, 1926, on the family farm in Tenhassen Township, Martin County, Minn., the son of William and Clara (Leiding) Meier. In 1929, the family moved to a farm near Wilbert that he called home for the rest of his life. Velmer attended parochial school at St. Paul’s Lutheran School in Wilbert. He was baptized March 14, 1926, and
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Sign at the entrance of the CHAZ. Seattle, Washington / USA – June 10, 2020. VDB Photos / Shutterstock.com
The Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, colloquially known as the “CHAZ,” was an occupation that took place between June 8 and July 1 of 2020 in Seattle, Washington during the midst of mass protests against the police killing of George Floyd. On July 1, the Seattle Police Department retook the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ), giving rise to the following account:
We awoke in the early hours to the sounds of police sirens. We had all grown used to this sound over the past five weeks. This time around, the sirens were not met with the voices of thousands, but, instead, they were met with what felt like a whisper, the final words of someone close to death. We knew this day was slowly approaching as we saw the barriers removed and car traffic slowly began to flow through the streets that we saw clouded in tear gas for weeks. Our tents and, for some, all their posses
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