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Another major project is harming the Seattle Chinatown International District (Chinatown, Japantown, Little Saigon): Sound Transit wants to take 3 blocks from the National Register Chinatown Historic District again.
Sound Transit says it has the choice of building on 4th or 5th Avenue and has yet to decide. However, their actions show they prefer 5th Avenue:
· Emphasizing 5th Avenue is a better route than 4th Avenue in presentations through selective criteria, e.g. resident displacement: 120 for 4th Avenue, 0 for 5th Avenue.
· Blocking community members from being in the CID Community Advisory Group.
· Not explaining what “full closure of King Street or Weller Street” means to the CID.
· Not explaining how businesses on King Street, Weller Street will be permanently moved, disrupting community life, residents; 1200 elderly and 300 businesses.
· Sending agents to 5th Avenue and King Street business owners, offering moving money to begin 5+ year construction plan.
· Incomplete plans presented for 4th Avenue options.
· Concluding that demolition and construction “will not impact neighborhood cohesion,” AKA community life.
Construction on 5th Avenue in Chinatown to Japantown means:
· Full closure of King Street, S. Weller and 5th Avenue for several years.
· Re-routing cars, buses, to 6th, Maynard, 7th, 8th, 10th & 12th.
· Gas, water, electrical shut offs to businesses, nonprofits and residents.
· Traffic detours throughout Chinatown, Japantown, Little Saigon.
· Daily dump trucks, cement trucks, cranes, supply trucks, delivery vehicles in CID.
· Construction workers taking parking from businesses.
· Increased noise & air pollution, dust, dirt, vibrations.
· Taking property from owners of color for demolition and resale after construction.
· Endangering lives of 1,200 elderly by blocking access/egress for emergency vehicles with street/sidewalk closures and detours.
· Permanent changes to National Register Seattle Chinatown Historic District—loss of 3 blocks, in addition to prior loss of 3 blocks for Transit Tunnel
· Disruptions to 300 businesses already battered by the pandemic, higher than ever anti-Asian hate crimes, criminal violence.
· Disruptions to 30 immigrant businesses permanently closed or forced to move.
· Disruptions to schools, daycares, programs serving thousands of children and youth.
· Disruptions to programs, classes, recreation for 1,200 elderly non-English speakers.
4th Ave Tunnel Station avoids 5th Ave impacts!
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