Thank you to everyone that came out across Licton Springs to meet with your neighbors and make 2018 another great success! Across the Licton Springs area, hundreds of neighbors got to know each other across over seven block parties.

Many community resources were shared at these block parties, including:

• Smart 911 - A way to add the information you want responders to know in case of an emergency before one happens.
• Alert Seattle - The official emergency notification system used by the City of Seattle to communicate with city residents during emergencies.
• Block Watch - Instructions on how to start an officially recognized neighborhood block watch.
• Emergency Event Calendar - Upcoming events that teach crucial skills needed in the case of an emergency.
• Emergency Hubs - A map of all the nearby emergency hubs to meet at after an emergency strikes.
• Licton Springs Community Calendar - A shared calendar for all the events happening across the Licton Springs area.

Here's to hoping the community connections made at Night Out continue to grow over the next year!

Reminder: TONIGHT all across Licton Springs and Seattle is Night Out! Come together with your neighbors for good food, activities, and conversation! Below is a map of all the publically listed night outs in the Licton Springs area:

If your direct area isn't getting together, the Densmore Block Watch Barbecue is open to the entire neighborhood and is holding its night out at Licton Spring Park.

Click here for a map of all the Night Out celebrations being held accross Seattle.

Did we miss your Night Out celebration? Let us know in a comment below!

Starting this September the frequency of the E Line, in addition to many other regional bus lines, will be increased. This change is happening thanks to a partnership between Amazon, the City of Seattle, and King County Metro. This will be a particularly welcome addition over the next few years as the recent closure of the Convention Place Station reroutes our other popular bus line into downtown: the 41 - leading to possible delays until the light rail construction is complete.

This change will positively affect many as the E Line is Metro’s highest-ridership route with more than 17,000 weekday riders.

Whether you call it Licton Springs, North Green Lake, North College Park, or that magical portal in-between Green Lake, Greenwood, and the Northgate mall - we are all proud to call it home. And, apparently, according to a new report from Redfin, we are not the only ones who would like to do so. Licton Springs showed up on Redfin's report as the #1 most competitive neighborhood to buy into, in not only Seattle, but the entire United States.

We tied with ourselves (under the name North College Park, yep we are in the report twice) and 5 other neighborhoods including nearby Phinney Ridge for the spot. Having also received a property taxable value reassessment notice today, I'm not entirely sure it's a placement any of us were looking to achieve...

A friend of the blog wrote in to let us know the construction of the North Seattle Neighborhood Greenway project down 100th Ave N is set to begin as soon as tomorrow. The project aims to connect Crown Hill, Greenwood, and Licton Springs both to each other and to the upcoming pedestrian bridge that will provide direct access to the Northgate light rail station. While the entire project, which will stretch around 2 miles, is a welcome addition - of particular interest to those in the Licton Springs area are a new sidewalk from Linden Ave N to Aurora Ave N and sidewalk improvements being made between Aurora Ave N and Stone Ave N.

When the work is complete, the hope is that it will be possible to safely walk or ride a bicycle all the way from Crown Hill to the new light rail station, with sidewalk at a minimum from Linden Ave N eastward. You can find more information about the project on SDOT's overview page. The project should take around 6 months to complete with individual neighbors being directly contacted as construction work that impacts them is underway.

Meanwhile, the traffic circle on Wallingford Ave N and N 97th we wrote about earlier this year has now been completed and is just awaiting greenery.

We look forward to a safer and more walkable North Seattle!