Please sign and share this petition! Then call and email Seattle Civic Leaders (see below) and tell them you don't want a music and arts campus in Discovery Park!

Do not create a NEW and COMPETING Arts Campus in the Center of Seattle's last significant open-space and wildlife habitat

For 45 years the purpose of Discovery Park is to provide what has become the last major naturalistic open space of in the Seattle region.

It is a "sanctuary where they might escape the turmoil of the city and enjoy the rejuvenation which quiet and solitude and an intimate contact with nature can bring."

If they are not, the park will become so fragmented that it can no longer serve its central purpose. Only those activities and only those structures should be accepted which are in harmony with the overall theme, character and objective of the park. There must be a deep commitment to the belief that there is no more valuable use of this site than as an open space."

- Quoted from the Discovery Park Master Plan

What to expect if we don't take action:

1. Development - Loss of vegetation and wildlife habitat! The proposed Campus will dominate more than 45 acres directly in the center of Discovery Park. This is larger than the West Point Waste Treatment Plant! The direct surrounding wildlife habitat zone is named "Bird Alley" because of the dense population of multiple bird species.
2. Noise - Loss of the regions last great open space of naturalistic quiet and tranquility. No longer will Seattle be able to claim that it has a "great urban wilderness" within the City. A Music and Arts Campus will alter
3. Pollution - ! Get ready for 35-foot piles of heavy construction materials, yard waste and miscellaneous debris blowing into the air and leaching into our groundwater. There will also be towering smoke stacks.
4. Traffic! They estimate up to 100 trucks daily will be dropping off construction waste from around the county. Palmer Blvd. is NOT going to support this kind of heavy additional congestion without seriously degrading the quality of life for all living things around it.
5. Not a priority! - Misguided use of precious financial resources! Why spend Millions to develop a new and competing Music and Arts Campus The City has invested heavily in long term habitat restoration projects throughout the Discovery Park. Development of a permanent and competing arts campus in the middle of Discovery Park is not a priority nor is it a good use of precious funds.This is NOT the right place to build this campus!

Please make your objections heard and take action now... Contact Seattle Parks and Recreation

Seattle Parks and Recreation phone number: 206-684-4075
https://www.seattle.gov/parks

Email Seattle Parks and Recreation Leaders:

Superintendent, Jesús Aguirre: - Jesus.Aguirre@seattle.gov

Director, Planning & Development, Michael Shiosaki: - Michael.Shiosaki@seattle.gov

Email Seattle Board of Parks Commissioners:

Rachel Acosta: - Rachel.Acosta@seattle.gov

Email King County Councilmembers

Jeanne Kohl-Welles: - jeanne.kohl-welles@kingcounty.gov

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