GEORGETOWN: King County Council Member Dwight Pelz—also a city council candidate—got an earful at a June 27 community council meeting. Dozens of "pretty fired up" residents told Pelz that they were opposed to a proposal that would allow Southwest Airlines to move from SeaTac International Airport to Boeing Field—which abuts Georgetown, and sits squarely in Pelz's district. While residents of the industrial neighborhood are used to noise—including the propeller planes and Cessnas that currently skim just a few hundred feet over Georgetown homes before landing at Boeing Field—they don't want additional commercial jets landing in their backyard. It seems Pelz was swayed: "If you're going to put airplanes over people's houses, if you're going to create a new flight path, you've got to have a very good reason for it," he told The Stranger. However, King County Executive Ron Sims's office cites several potential benefits: a Southwest investment in Boeing Field could be a potential boon for employment, economic development, and urban growth. Plus, Sims's office also speculates that the move could provide tremendous benefits to consumers by providing low-cost airline flights conveniently located in Seattle. QUEEN ANNE: Around 2:00 a.m. on Saturday morning, July 2, an off-duty paramedic and a passerby observed fire coming from 15th Avenue West and West Emerson Street on the lower side of Queen Anne. They discovered a man fully engulfed in flames. The man, according to the Seattle Police Department, appeared to be homeless and they speculate he was lit on fire as he slept underneath the Nickerson Street overpass. In critical condition and with burns over 90 percent of his body, the man was rushed to Harborview Medical Center but died shortly thereafter. The police department says the tragedy is pending investigation as a homicide. OTHELLO: Police and the city's parks department shut down Othello Park a few hours early on July 4 to curb any potential problems at the neighborhood hot spot. Othello Park was the scene of a deadly shooting this past March, putting neighbors on high alert. They didn't want a repeat of last July 4 when police, reportedly responding to a different incident, recovered several guns in the park. Ron Momoda, the park's unofficial neighborhood caretaker, stayed home on July 4—"I just enjoyed the fireworks on TV," he said—to keep his own eye on things. BALLARD: The folks behind Ghostcycle.org—guerrilla bikers assembling city crash data in an effort to boost safety and who tagged the railroad tracks criss-crossing Ballard's Burke-Gilman Trail—report that the city just made "road changes" along NW 45th Street, so bikers won't have to zigzag across the tracks anymore.