CAPITOL HILL “All summer we’ve been battling with the tennis
players,” says Christi Steinbrink, a member of the informal Cal
Anderson Park dodgeball league. “They called the police and the parks
department [on us].” According to Steinbrink, the Cal Anderson
dodgeball league—which has been playing at the Cal Anderson
tennis courts since May 2007 every Tuesday and Friday night—draws
crowds of as many as 100 people. Although the dodgeball league has
gained a following, players will have to meet with the parks department
next month to see if they can get a permit to keep using the courts.
“Generally, tennis courts are for tennis,” says Seattle Parks
Department spokeswoman Dewey Potter. “[But] if there’s an emerging
population of dodgeball players, we need to do something about it.” The
meeting will be at the parks department building at 100 Dexter Avenue
North on November 7 at 10:30 a.m.
BITTER LAKE The sidewalkless
wasteland near North 135th Street and Aurora Avenue North will be
getting an unexpected and unprecedented flood of new residents over the
next year as five housing developments—which could bring between
1,400 and 1,800 rental units of low-income and senior housing—are
being constructed between 135th and 145th streets. The projects, which
could open as early as 2009, will bring a massive influx of pedestrians
and traffic, which the neighborhood hadn’t expected till 2014.
