Current Decision Regarding Ingraham High School in Seattle

December 2, 2010

It is with great sadness we report that the Ingraham Trees LUPA case in Superior Court was decided, the result being that the Ingraham Trees may be removed. We have until December 9, 2010 to appeal this decision to the Court of Appeals. We would greatly appreciate letters be sent to the following groups to express why the trees should remain. This includes educational value, filtration vaue for water and air and social value for the neighborhood and the City.

The following links will help to get our message out.

The Seattle City Council contact site:http://www.seattle.gov/council/councilcontact.htm

The Seattle School Board:http://www.seattleschools.org/area/board/contact.xml

The City of Seattle Department of Planning and Development:Diane Sugimura, Directormailto:Directordiane.sugimura@seattle.gov

And the Mayor's office:http://www.seattle.gov/mayor/contact.htm

At this point phone calls (all the phone numbers are at each of the above links) may be more effective than email, but either way the message is to save the Ingraham Northwest Grove. Move the addition to another place on campus. And request they be better stewards for our environment here in the Northwest.

Tell Your Friends.

Ingraham

On November 5, 2010 Save The Trees-Seattle appeared in a LUPA hearing before Justice Theresa Doyle. This hearing was to argue for an EIS to be performed by the Seattle School District before removing any trees from the Ingraham campus. Also, Save The Trees-Seattle asked that the MUP granted by DPD be denied.

Among the many errors that the District, past Hearing Examiners and DPD have made; Save The Trees Seattle limited the arguments to two specific issues.

The first issue being the lack of an EIS that would evaluate the campus for Environmental sensitivity regarding the entire site and how that interacts with the City.

The other issue was regarding the way DPD evaluated (or lack there of) the site to protect the rare plant habitat.

Currently Justice Theresa Doyle is reviewing Transcripts (3 hearings), Briefs and other evidence provided by DPD, Seattle School District and Save The Trees--Seattle.

We will post the decision.