All about the West Seattle neighborhood around Beach Drive
The Seattle Police Department has released their newsletter with very helpful tips on how to stay safe during this hot weather and how to report graffiti.
It also includes a reminder that Seattle Night Out is on Tuesday, August 4, 2015. If you’re neighborhood is hosting a Seattle Night Out party, you’re encouraged to register it with the SPD here.
Someone on a walk along Beach Drive today lost her key with a crab on it. If you find it, please comment below and we’ll connect you.
The Seattle City Council created an ordinance that requires all rental properties be registered with the city of Seattle. This rolled out a few years ago and, if you’re like me, you may recall hearing about it and assumed it was for folks who had multiple rental properties and did not apply to those who just have one rental or a mother-in-law apartment they’re renting out…WRONG!
The Rental Registration and Inspection Ordinance (aka RRIO) requires all rental properties, including attached dwelling units (aka mother-in-law apartments) to be registered with the City of Seattle.
The deadlines to register your Seattle rental home depends on the zip code the property is located in. Beach Drive rentals with a zip code of 98116 have until September 30, 2015 to register their rentals. Rental properties with a zip code of 98136 have until June 30, 2016 to register.
The cost to register a 1-unit rental is $175. The penalties to not register your rental home are a steep $150 per day for the first 10 days, climbing to $500 per day after that.
The city will also require that your rental be inspected by either a City inspector or one that you hire (who has been approved by the City).
I recently wrote about this on my other blog and I’ve been surprised at how many Seattle landlords are not aware of this ordinance.
So if you have a rental unit in the City of Seattle, you need to learn more about RRIO. For more information or to register your property, click here.
Our intrepid reporter, Scupper, Captain of S/V Pointless, is currently on trail of the Polar Pioneer.
Shell’s controversial oil rig is en route to Terminal 5 in West Seattle.
Stay tuned for more pictures from Captain Scupper as I will continue to update this post with photos as I receive them.
UPDATE 2:28 PM: You can barely see West Seattle in the background as the Polar Pioneer makes her way closer to Terminal 5.
Captain Scupper says, “There goes the neighborhood.”
UPDATE 2:39 PM:
Captain Scupper of S/V Pointless has just sent in this picture of the Polar Pioneer with Seattle in the distance.
Along with this close up photo taken of the oil rig from the deck of Pointless.
Captain Scupper does not see any kayakers from Portland…yet…
UPDATE 2:47 PM:
Captain Scupper has just sent a bunch more photos… they are all starting to look the same to me. Here’s a nice one of the Polar Pioneer posing in front of the Seattle skyline.
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UPDATE 3:05 PM:
Captain Scupper thinks he heard over the VHF that the Polar Pioneer is going to start drilling at this spot in Elliott Bay!
EDITORS NOTE: The following was submitted by Barb Morgen:
Parents of students a Alki Elementary will join 50 neighbors and community supporters in attending the “Stop Alki Cell Towers” Information Rally and Demonstration on Alki Beach, Thursday, May 7 at 7 p.m. Rally will end with kids throwing 12 cardboard cell tower replicas into a fire pit, as a way of saying they don’t want 12 new cell antenna transmitters to be built so close to their school.
The ginormous West Seattle Community Garage Sale is coming up this Saturday. The weather for Saturday should be beautiful – which never hurts a successful garage sale. Check out the map for registered garage sales!
If you are planning on having a garage sale on Saturday OR ANY DAY, and you’re a Beach Drive neighbor, we are happy to post it here. Just send us an email with the nitty gritty and we will help spread the word.
Two West Seattle families completely lost their homes yesterday from a devastating fire. Another home was damaged by the same 2-alarm fire as well.
If you are interested in donating, two “crowd funding” sites have been set up for the two families. Click here for Tom and Mary and here for Amy and John‘s fundraising sites.
UPDATE: Another crowd funding site has been added for the other home that was involved with fire. Click here for Ellie and her husband.
From West Seattle Blog:
Three Morgan Junction food/beverage establishments – Peel & Press, The Bridge, Beveridge Place Pub – will be donating a percentage of proceeds on Tuesday,according to Dan from P & P.
…actually, in the ten years we’ve lived on Beach Drive…this has to the first time I’ve seen this!
It appears to be a photo shoot. I can barely make out the name on the back of the boat “Endurance” with a couple letters following. Any more info on this? I love it when Delta Marine test drives their mega-yachts in our back yard… Endurance looks like it could a model from Hampton Yachts?
Awoken by a barking sea lion…low flying helicopter over a motorboat… just a typical week! 😉
…barking Sea Lion! This morning around 5:30 am, our household was jolted awake by the song of very loud sea lion. As I write this post, he (or she) is currently barking it up in front of Emma Schmitz View Point – enjoy!
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