The other thing Hempfest needs to figure out is how to instill age appropriate limits on attendees. Allowing kids--even teens--to attend is irresponsible and self-defeating.

"Joint stipulation." Heh. I liked "federal grant money wad" too, but you apparently felt it needed fixing.

How do they refuse to answer? They can't. We can just make them disclose documents.

hempfest needs to install a juggaglo filter on every entrance..

Actually, Magnuson Park isn't a bad idea. Yeah, it's sooo faaarrr from Capitol Hill hipsters, but it is a bigger park without the chokepoint/bottleneck at the end that makes Myrtle Edwards park a pain.

@5 Hipsters do not go to Cempfest. Now, Blowfest....

@6.....Hempfest. Weird typo....

@7, at least you didn't point out the lack of hoodies at Detlef Schrempfest.

Seattle Center actually doesn't provide all that much more attendance capacity.

It just seems bigger, because the open space it does have is spread out in patches over a sprawling 74 acre campus. Myrtle Edwards has a fraction of the acreage, but 100% of it is usable open space.

thank heaven for lawyers who will fight for what is right

Condemn Queen Anne, put all the residents in a concentration camp outside Pasco, and make the whole hill Hempfest for the month of August.

Then there might be space to walk without getting smeared with Patchouli as you slide past all the 21st century hippies.

Hold it... it's the city's job to find a new venue for Hempfest? How is that the city's responsibility? A privately-run "constitutionally protected" event is still responsible for finding, scheduling, and permitting its own venue... and there's nothing in the Constitution that says the city can't say "find another venue or pick another date, we're booked for renovations that weekend."

Every year something about Hempfest gets fucked up in the planning... is it secretly being planned by Seattle Out & Proud?

As someone who's been to hempfest every year (cept for last), and lived all my life in Seattle, I can tell with you confidence that I will never go to another hempfest until this issue is resolved. I'm not parking 80 blocks away (I will attempt overcrowded buses though), to wait in line for 8 hours, to maybe get in and look at stuff for 20 minutes before the giant crowds of people decimate the ability to walk/breathe. They need to fix this, it's clearly a demand that isn't being met, it was clear 5 years ago. We ask for one fucking weekend out of the entire fucking year, and the city acts like it's the hardest thing in the world to accommodate. Oh my how could this have happened! I didn't know you wanted to do that potfest again, even though every year it's been at least twice as successful as the last, I'm shocked that you'd consider it! Fucking city.

Despite my personal disagreements with HempFest and Vivian's traitorous reversal on pot legalization - I must say that as a producer of events, HempFest needs to stay at Myrtle Edwards - it is the only park that can properly accommodate this event from a standpoint of space, access (parking and buses), safety and security, production, etc etc etc. Magnuson Park would be an unmitigated disaster with limited parking and sporadic bus service…and a sprawling campus that would become a huge safety concern…and kids sitting all over Sand Point residents lawns getting stoned…

The City should stop fucking with HempFest and work with them to build that overpass and if it costs the city some extra money to delay so that HempFest can go on – well then goddamn it do that because HempFest is the biggest Seattle festival based on daily attendance and the city rakes in the bucks when it happens.

Go HempFest! Play ball Seattle!

@15: the 15, 18, 19, 24, and 33 buses stop right in front of the Prospect Street overpass and there is never a crowd or line from the North. The buses aren't even overcrowded - it works great!