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‘We’re still making progress, we’re still having conversations’ — Seattle’s growth plan update continues despite appeals

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Hollingworth in front of the Leschi CC (Image: CHS)

With reporting by Matt Dowell

District 3 representative Joy Hollingsworth says the process to establish an updated comprehensive growth plan in Seattle is not being put on hold while environmental appeals by neighborhood groups opposed to the city’s proposals play out.

“The comp plan is still moving forward,” Hollingsworth told CHS last week following her office’s announcement of an updated schedule of meetings of the Select Committee on the Comprehensive Plan she chairs and Hollingsworth’s latest meeting with a D3 community group as she hopes to calm concerns about changes to the city’s zoning that could make way for the development of more multifamily housing in more areas of the city.

“We’re still making progress, we’re still having conversations,” Hollingsworth said.

The announcement of the six-meeting series of committee sessions through May 21st may come as a small relief to proponents of the growth plan changes concerned that Hollingsworth’s office might put the process on hold while six appeals filed demanding additional environmental review of the city’s plans are considered the Hearing Examiner. CHS reported here on the appeals including cases representing Madison Valley, Mount Baker, Hawthorne Hills, and “73 remaining Southern resident killer whales.” Continue reading →

Police in schools, increased staffing, and arrest alternatives: District 3 candidates for Seattle City Council address public safety after deadly shooting and bursts of gun violence

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After incidents across District 3 including a deadly shooting last week, gunfire in a fight at Garfield High School, and shots fired in a Broadway parking lot, the candidates to represent D3 on the Seattle City Council addressed the city’s gun violence and possible solutions in a candidate forum Wednesday night in the Leschi neighborhood. One of the candidates experienced the worry from the incident at Garfield only hours before the forum first hand:

“I’m a mom at Garfield, so I had the worst hour-and-a-half of my life this afternoon because I couldn’t get ahold of my kid,” candidate Alex Hudson said.

District 3 candidates Hudson and Joy Hollingsworth discussed public safety and gun violence in the Wednesday night Leschi Community Candidate Forum and explained their positions and proposals for making the district safer including alternatives to police.

“I’m a really big proponent of our community gun violence prevention programs,” Hollingsworth said, talking about Safe Passages, a non-arrest intervention program that provides guardianship in the neighborhood by adults from the community. “They deescalate a lot of the gun violence that’s going on in our community…we feel the heat of all the gun violence that’s ravaging our community.”

Hollingsworth said she believes partnering with additional community gun violence prevention programs and organizations would help stem gun violence. Continue reading →

93 years added to life sentence for 2014 ‘jihad-inspired’ murders including two gay men killer met on Capitol Hill

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Family and loved ones of Dwone Anderson-Young mourned the 23-year-old’s murder at a vigil following the June 2014 murders (Image: CHS)

Ahmed Said was 27 when he was murdered

Ali Brown will serve for his 2014 killings including two men he met on Capitol Hill he lured with a dating app and murdered because they were gay.

Brown, already facing life in prison for shooting a man to death in New Jersey in the weeks after the slayings here, was sentenced Friday in King County court to 93 years for the killing of a man in Skyway and the murder of the two men he met on a night out on Capitol Hill.

Prosecutors say Brown was “jihad-inspired” when he murdered 23-year-old Dwone Anderson-Young and and 27-year-old Ahmed Said in the June 1st, 2014 slayings.

The two were shot to death early on a Sunday morning after a late spring night on Capitol Hill. Their bodies were found in the area of 29th and King near the home Anderson-Young shared with his mother. Continue reading →

Killer who says he gunned down two he met on Capitol Hill because they were gay pleads guilty to New Jersey slaying

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Family and loved ones of Dwone Anderson-Young mourned the 23-year-old’s murder at a vigil following the June 2014 murders (Image: CHS)

The man accused of killing two gay men he met on Capitol Hill as part of a nationwide murder spree investigators say was driven by extremist beliefs has pleaded guilty to another murder and admitted in court to the Seattle crimes.

Prosecutors say Ali Muhammad Brown was “jihad-inspired” when he murdered 23-year-old Dwone Anderson-Young and and 27-year-old Ahmed Said in the June 1st, 2014 slayings. The two were shot to death early on a Sunday morning after a night on Capitol Hill. Their bodies were found in the area of 29th and King near the home Anderson-Young shared with his mother. Continue reading →