tsc treejob

Tree Service In Seattle, Washington

888.650.8733

1 click 3 local contractors for tree trimming, removal or any tree care need.

Pro Tree Contractors

This Service is provided by TreeService.com where we provide homeowners quality local tree companies. Unlike other media sources you may use to find a tree care provider we only focus on the tree service industry so you can rest knowing that we have pick the best contractors to service your needs. Contractors or assign by zip code so you know you will receive the closest top of the line service provider.

Your quote request is being sumbmitted, please wait.

*required

1

let us know who will be meeting with the tree service*


2

contact information*

3

location where the work will be done*

4



5

6

tree removal

tree trimming

tree planting

stump removal

tree treatments

certified arborist

7

tell us about your tree service needs*

Seattle, Washington, is made up of districts and neighborhoods, a list of which appears below. Districts and neighborhoods are informal, boundaries may overlap, and multiple names may exist. Early European settlers established widely scattered home sites on the surrounding hills; these hamlets grew into neighborhoods and autonomous towns. Conurbations tend to have grown up organically from such towns or from unincorporated areas around trolley stops from the 19th and early 20th centuries. The transportation and street-naming problems that developed have informed Seattle ever since. No official designations of neighborhoods or boundaries have existed in Seattle since 1910.

 

Informal districts

Seattle mayor Greg Nickels is among those who have called Seattle "a city of neighborhoods," although the boundaries (and even names) of those neighborhoods are often open to dispute. For example, a Department of Neighborhoods spokeswoman reported that her own neighborhood has gone from "the 'CD' to 'Madrona' to 'Greater Madison Valley' and now 'Madrona Park.'"

Conurbations tend to have grown up organically from what were once autonomous towns and small communities around 19th- and early 20th-century trolley stops. Some neighborhoods, such as northwest Seattle, do not have widely-recognized names for their greater districts. There exists no official designation of neighborhoods or neighborhood boundaries in Seattle; this is partly because of the complications with regard to the city money and politics already involved in neighborhoods that making such designations now would bring. Following the scandalous history of ward politics, the City of Seattle avoids any appearance of conflict of interest or favoritism with regard to neighborhoods.

Seattle politics has a long history of contesting between the Downtown Establishment (Seattle Establishment) and neighborhoods. Seattle initially adopted ward politics (the town of Ballard joined Seattle as its own ward, 1907) and rejected wards in 1910 in favor of Progressive Era reformers and non-partisan, at-large representation. Variations on ward politics have been proposed and rejected (1914, 1974, 1995) amid concerns about future ward politics, and eventual convictions for campaign-related money laundering (1998) after the 1995 campaign. Concerns were expressed, in each campaign for district-style elections of the city council, that the system would eventually bring east-coast style Gilded Age or Tammany Hall backroom politics. In the 1995 campaign, legal proceedings and subsequent convictions followed years after the election. Little City Halls (1973) evolved, now formally known as Neighborhood Service Centers (NSC, 1991), handling municipal services. These are built on the Seattle Model City Program of the later 1960s and its Multi-Service Centers, as well as on customer service offices of public utilities and other city departments. These became a setting for jousting between the city council and the mayor; controversies over accountabilities, cronyism, and ward politics were hashed out (1974, 1976, 1988), and the results strengthen some connection between city government Downtown and community senses of districts and neighborhoods in public affairs including neighborhood planning and community involvement.

The names and boundaries used in Seattle neighborhoods articles in this reference work are generally accepted, as well as being widely used. They are based on the Seattle City Clerk's Neighborhood Map Atlas, which in turn is based on a neighborhood map produced by the Department of Community Development (relocated to the Department of Neighborhoods and other agencies), Seattle Public Library indexes, a 1984-1986 Neighborhood Profiles feature series in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (supplemented here with the Neighbors Project and Webtowns, both of the P-I), numerous parks, land use and transportation planning studies, and records in the Seattle Municipal Archives . "Seattle Neighborhoods" of the HistoryLink.org Encyclopedia of Washington State History provides another well-documented set of interpretations that are, like the P-I projects, largely complementary yet again somewhat different.

 

Defining neighborhoods

With sign locations specified at the request of Seattle's many neighborhood community councils, the city posts signs indicating that drivers are entering a particular neighborhood, although the boundaries suggested by these signs overlap one another and routinely differ from delineations on maps attempting to define neighborhood boundaries. For example, based on signage Lake City Way NE is currently taken as the eastern boundary of the Maple Leaf neighborhood, although the city clerk's archival neighborhood boundary partially extends west to NE 15th Ave. Another example is "Frelard," which is what locals call area shared by Fremont and Ballard between 3rd and 8th Avenues NW. Signs coming in opposite directions on NW Leary Way show the overlap. After an acrimonious development process in 1966, a group of concerned Wallingford citizens enlisted the University of Washington Community Development Bureau to survey the neighborhood, house to house. So many residents of southwest Wallingford consider themselves citizens of Fremont that this boundary is more complex. The area has a name, "Freford", further complicated in that some residents refer to it as "Wallmont". Taken all together, typically several well-documented interpretations can exist that each define a neighborhood in slightly different ways. See Wedgwood for a good example of multiple definitions of a single neighborhood.

Because the City of Seattle was established and developed its cast of character in a largely freebooting boom (1851-1901), the plats and their development defined neighborhoods de facto, including the paper trail of developing public libraries and schools. The process of establishing property title, then proposing, funding, designing, contracting, and building any sizable project leaves documentation in archives. The establishment of locally-initiated community clubs or community councils further defines neighborhoods by sense of community and further civic participation, incidentally leaving a paper trail in public library and City archives.

 

[edit] Community clubs

In 1906, members of the Queen Anne Community Club peititioned the Seattle Parks Board for a scenic boulevard around Queen Anne Hill, in counterpoint to other neighborhoods in those years. The walls, on 8th Place W between Galer Street and Highland Drive, were named a Seattle Landmark in 1976, upgraded in the 1990s.

Sometimes neighborhoods and districts have become defined starkly. Renton Hill Community Improvement Club was organized in 1901 for public improvements such as water, sidewalks, lighting, and beautification in the exclusive residential neighborhood that is now upper Capitol Hill. The Renton Hill Community Club reorganized to exclude racial minorities (1929), together with the Capitol Hill Community Club. The community club was a reaction to the transition away from elite and exclusive with approaching African American population from the east, Asian from the south, and urban downtown from the west. Covenants restricting rental or sale of property to whites were not uncommon in residential Seattle, though sometimes they would merely exclude specific ethnicities, or they would be unwritten but effectively applied by Realtor selectivity and bank redlining. Restrictive covenants remained legal in Seattle until 1968, though changing real estate covenants to comply with the open housing ordinance was not largely completed until the mid 2000s.

 

Public libraries

Establishing public library branches can also define districts as well as neighborhoods. Public libraries are among the most heavily used buildings. Seattle has elected its city council at large since 1910, and an established way constituents voice their needs has long been through a variety of community clubs, which lobby council members for the interests of their neighborhood—such as for a library branch. Toward such an end, the community organizations build a voting constituency, and in so doing define a neighborhood. In the absence of ward politics, this and campaign finance legislation are seen as more open alternatives. The Greenwood-Phinney Commercial Club was particularly active in organizing toward the Greenwood branch that opened in 1928.

The Lake City Branch Library of today started in 1935 as a few shelves of books in part of a room in Lake City School, shared with the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Sponsorship was by the Pacific Improvement Club community group. Scout Troop 240 and other volunteers moved thousands of books into a new building in 1955.

 

Public schools

Elementary public schools effectively defined many neighborhoods, which are often synonymous with the name of the elementary school when the neighborhood and school were established. Thus, many of the neighborhoods listed below themselves contain a few smaller neighborhoods more closely defining child- and pedestrian-friendly social neighborhoods. Mann and Minor neighborhoods in Seattle's oldest residential neighborhood, the Central Area or Central District, grew up around their schools. The University Heights school (1903) in the north of the University District was named for the neighborhood, as was the Latona School (1906) in Wallingford.

 

Public parks

Parks similarly define some neighborhoods. Madrona Beach and Cowen and Ravenna Parks were initially privately established to lure buyers to residential development, turning to advantage otherwise unusable land. The grand plan for Olmsted Parks attracted residential development and significantly influenced the character of neighorhoods around various parks and playgrounds in the eras of pedestrians. East Phinney and West Meridian neighborhoods are sometimes called Woodland Park, as well as South Green Lake or North Wallingford for Meridian.

 

Paper trail in City archives

The establishment of capital improvement financing and of Local Improvement Districts (usually initiated by petition of interested property owners) provides a long, detailed record of de facto neighborhoods and boundaries, in addition to the official boundaries of wards that officially defined neighborhood districts through 1910. Without the local improvement district (LID) assessment system, the City would have been unable to keep pace with its often rapid expansions in population and territory, ] so the LIDs help define neighborhoods. The benefits of the improvements provide further definition. The styles of such as the buildings and sidewalks, indeed whether neighborhoods even have sidewalks, provide definition.

 

Covenants

Housing covenants became common in the 1920s and were validated by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1926. Minorities were effectively closely limited to the International District and parts of a few neighborhoods in SE Seattle for Asian- and Native Americans; or the Central District for Blacks, clearly defining those neighborhoods. Ballard – Sunset Hills, Beacon Hill, Broadmoor, Green Lake, Laurelhurst, Magnolia, Queen Anne, South Lake City, and other Seattle neighborhoods and blocks had racially or ethnically restrictive housing covenants, such as the following representative sample:

"No person or persons of [any of several minorities] blood, lineage, or extraction shall be permitted to occupy a portion of said property" and usually "except a domestic servant or servants who may actually and in good faith be employed by white occupants"

Further restrictions on conveyance (rental, lease, sale, transfer) were also often included, effectively clearly defining most of the neighborhoods in Seattle during much of their formative decades.

The Supreme Court ruled in 1948 that racial restrictions would no longer be enforced. The Seattle Open Housing Ordinance became effective in 1968. Though unenforcable, legal complications prevent the covenants from actually being expunged from property title documents. Remaining unwritten real estate practices and bank redlining had largely diminished.by the mid 2000s.

 

Transportation

Minor arterials are generally located along the boundaries of neighborhoods; together with streets and highways built according to the street classification system. These effectively help define neighborhoods in much the way rivers or canals did in the past. Development in accordance with the street classification system helps maintain the livability of city neighborhoods as well as improving efficiency of the street transportation system, The layout of streets according to the classification system helps discourage higher speed "through" traffic from using local neighborhood streets, and local traffic from congesting regional travel.

Transportation hubs, such as business zones and particularly transit stations such as Park and Ride facilities provide focal points for districts of neighborhoods in much the same way trolley stops (or their absence) defined neighborhoods before cars.

 

Districts and neighborhoods

Official names, districts, and boundaries have not existed in Seattle since 1910. The names of districts and neighborhoods in the Wikipedia category Seattle neighborhoods can be or are taken from the Seattle City Clerk's Office Neighborhood Map Atlas; from Myra Phelps, A Narrative History, a history of Seattle through Engineering Department records and notes; from HistoryLink.org Encyclopedia of Washington State history, "Seattle Neighborhoods", particularly their "Thumbnail Histories", many of which reference records of neighborhood organizations and public library branches. Another corroborating resource is the "Neighbors" project of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (1996-2000), currently updated as the Webtowns section of the online P-I. These can be further supplemented by reference to neighborhood articles in the archives of the P-I, The Times, and particularly local district newspapers, as well as books. The Transportation Department has built and designated secondary arterials (officially called minor arterials) predominantly along neighborhoods boundaries.

Shenk, Pollack, Dornfeld, Frantilla, and Neman (authors of the Seattle Atlas) drew largely upon primary sources. As credible archivists, their work qualifies as a high-caliber secondary source. Indeed given the circumstances described (see Informal districts, above), as professionals, they could not but work and state that their work is non-partisan. Phelps is also a high quality secondary source, since much of her sources were Department archives of official documents and reports, in addition to professional journal articles, as well as books and articles back to the early 20th century. Phelps and Shenk et al have complete citations in the Bibliography, below.

The names of districts and neighborhoods in this section are taken from the Seattle City Clerk's Office Neighborhood Map Atlas, which was "not designed or intended as an 'official' City of Seattle neighborhood map... [but] to define neighborhood district names and boundaries in a way that improves document indexing and retrieval." As such, many of them have no existence outside of the city's map and indexing system, such as Pike Market (Pike Place Market in actuality), Mann, Minor, and Mid Beacon Hill. In addition, reducing the number of top-level districts led to neighborhoods such as Harrison/Denny-Blaine being included in the Central District and Madison Park being included in Capitol Hill, which does not conform to facts on the ground.

Seattle districts and neighborhoods are informal, boundaries may overlap, multiple names may exist; there are no official names or boundaries. Those used in Wikipedia Seattle neighborhoods are the most widely known, used, and documented. See also Seattle neighborhoods #Informal districts and Seattle neighborhoods #Districts and neighborhoods.

 

North End

Neighborhood Service Center (NSC) storefronts cover Lake City-North Seattle, University District-Northeast Seattle, Greenwood-Northwest Seattle, and Ballard has one for itself. NSC are also called Little City Halls; see also Seattle neighborhoods #Informal districts.

Ballard neighborhoods , Ballard was a former town for 17 years.

Lake City neighborhoods , Lake City a former township for 5 years
Lake City neighborhoods are now also known as Sand Point-Magnuson Park and neighborhoods northwest of Sand Point.

Northgate neighborhoods

University District (University District map ).

In addition to the central, N, S, E, and W designations for the main campus of the University of Washington, the district has The Ave and now-obscure neighborhoods such as University Heights and University Park.

 

Central city

NSC storefronts cover Capitol Hill, Downtown, the Central Area, Queen Anne-Magnolia, and Lake Union-Fremont.

Magnolia

Queen Anne

Capitol Hill
North Capitol Hill and Stevens were formerly Renton Hill. Portage and Union bays are convenient boundaries.

Cascade
(Northlake is usually south Wallingford, remote from Old Seattle by Salmon, Portage, and Union bays.)

Central District, Central Area, or "the CD"

Downtown neighborhoods

 

South End and West Seattle

NSC storefronts cover Southeast Seattle (the Rainier Valley neighborhoods, the South End Lake Shore Communities, and Beacon Hill), West Seattle, Greater Duwamish, and Delridge

South End Neighborhoods

Beacon Hill

West Seattle , West Seattle formerly a town for 5 years

Delridge

 

Alphabetical list of neighborhoods

Annexation dates follow each name, unless the neighborhood was part of the original Old Seattle, that is, within the area of second incorporation, December 1869.

Date is as of the actual annexation, not the date of the prerequisite enabling city ordinance. Neighborhoods of most of the largest districts are listed under their district, such as West Seattle and Delridge.

 

Annexations

Seattle annexed eight municipalities between 1905 and 1910, nearly doubling the area size of the city. Annexations by law were begun by the annexee and had to be approved by the Seattle City Council. The appeal of the inexpensive and accessible electric power and water system services of the public utilities were the primary motivations for the annexation movements.

Ballard was its own incorporated town for 17 years, annexed as its own ward. West Seattle incorporated in 1902, then annexed Spring Hill, Riverside, Alki Point, and Youngstown districts. It was the largest of the incorporated towns to be annexed. Southeast Seattle merged with the towns of Hillman City and York, then incorporated for the only reason of being annexed. Georgetown was the last of the small incorporated cities (towns, actually) to be annexed to Seattle before 1950.

 

Towns annexed 1905–1910

The following towns were annexed by Seattle from 1905 to 1910:

 

Future

Because of the cost of providing city services, low-density residential neighborhoods are net revenue losers to municipalities. With the end of vehicle-license revenue subsidizing unincorporated areas, these have become increasingly orphaned.

In April 2004, the City Council voted to defer a decision on Mayor Nickels' proposal that Seattle designate the West Hill and North Highline neighborhoods, part of unincorporated King County, as potential annexation areas (PAAs), for at least a year. Because of the tax revolt that took place in Washington in the late 1990s and early 2000s, the county's budget has been shrinking, and the county has said it is unlikely to be able to maintain adequate levels of funding for urban services in unincorporated areas. The nearby city of Burien, however, has issued a 2004 draft report for its own annexation of all or part of North Highline.

North Highline, which abuts SeaTac, Burien, and Tukwila in addition to Seattle, consists of the Boulevard Park neighborhood and part of White Center. West Hill, which abuts Tukwila and Renton in addition to Seattle, consists of Skyway, Bryn Mawr, Lakeridge, and Earlington. Its population is 32,000.

On December 11, 2006, the Seattle City Council agreed to designate North Highline a "potential annexation area




Home also check out our local tree directory at Seattle Tree Services

© 2008 TreeService.com