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Tacoma city councilmember Julie Anderson weights in on the donor wall debacle in an op ed in today's News Tribune. Seems she's trying to play the role of a bridge on this issue and I applaud her. I only wish representatives from the community at-large we at some of the meetings going on. I happen to know a couple bloggers that would surely like to attend. She put a couple points to guide talks out there:

• The success of the museum is crucial to the City of Tacoma. Any design solution should strive to increase the institution’s visitorship.
  
  
• The volunteers and donors of Save Our Station and Century Park deserve a “date certain” for a design and construction of the park.
  
  
• Pedestrian barriers are not desirable and should be used only when logically linked to public safety or adopted public urban design goals.

I think she does well to even point out that the honest discussion happening around town and here in the blog community will only help create meaningful solutions for everyone.

Unfortunately, without an honest definition of the underlying problems and an articulation of each party’s desired outcomes, a satisfying solution for community is unlikely.

Cheers to Julie Anderson for this perspective and if more community support is needed to come to a final solution, perhaps getting members of the community directly involved will help everyone get on the same page. So, in this spirit, how do we honor donors, allow pedestrian traffic through the area, while being conscious of the museum's attendance?

Link to the News Tribune
Previously on KFnet

Thanks Erik!

Here's my phrase of the day (similar to my "Make love not wall" comment the other day) on this issue: "Keep your friends close and local bloggers closer."

At least that what I hope the outcome will be. Ever since we moved in I've eyed our tiny backyard as a possible oasis. We already have a pretty decent covered deck and put in a beautiful row of bamboo. Unfortunately, the grassy patches that have thus far avoided being dug up are pretty spotty and really too bumpy for my poor little push reel mower. To mow smoothly I'd need to "pimp my ride" and add some shocks or something.

I bought a thatching rake a couple weeks ago to give the area a real scraping to loosen the soil and remove a thick carpet of old grass and tangled roots. Yesterday I toiled a bit to de-thatch the entire back area. Although it's pretty tough running steel blades though that tangle above the top soil, I made relatively short work of it and hauled 6 or 7 buckets stuffed full of thatch into our compost.

After a quick trip for some grass seed, soil, and fertilizer and after I recharged with lunch, I spread seed then hand covered it all with soil. Add a little water and hopefully I'll start seeing the reeds of my labor this week. I'm nerdy enough that I even put the same soil and seek into a little pot as a controlled example of what should start growing when. If the control grows but the lawn doesn't, I know we've got bigger problems and I'll probably resort to making the hole area a big patch work of salvaged granite chunks. My hope is the control will begin growing at the same time as the newly patched lawn. Stay tuned... (I just know your positively riveted ;)

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