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ALERT!

We have finally received a response from the City of Newcastle concerning issues raised during the April 7th meeting with Issaquah School District and City Staff. To read their response (in Word format) Click Here (51k)   New 5/5/03


SEPA Docs

Issaquah School District has filed SEPA docs! The following are images of the SEPA Checklist and Mitigated Determination of Nonsignificance document I received in the mail:
page 1 (189k) page 2 (122k) page 3 (222k) page 4 (224k) page 5 (248k)
page 6 (184k) page 7 (170k) page 8 (182k) page 9 (130k) page 10 (242k)
page 11 (238k) page 12 (228k) page 13 (214k) page 14 (208k) page 15 (224k)
page 16 (229k) page 17 (183k) page 18 (222k) page 19 (125k)

Mile Post Meeting Minutes

January 28th 2003 (9k) January 7th 2003 (14k) November 5, 2002 (9k) August 14th 2002 (4k)
July 23rd 2002 (4k) July 10th 2002 (8k) June 17th 2002 (9k) June 4th 2002 (3k)
May 23rd 2002 (5k) May 7th 2002 (9k) April 23rd 2002 (14k) April 5th 2002 (3k)
Feb 15th 2002 (4k)

Newspaper Articles

To link to an article about Newcastle housing from the April 21st 2002 Seattle Times, Click here To link to an October 6, 2002 Seattle Times article about building community, Click here Reprint of the article by Autumn Koepp from the May 2 2003 Newcastle News (Copyright © Issaquah Press and reprinted with Autumn's permission) Click Here (51k)   New 5/21/03
Reprint of the article about the new Elementary school by Terra Chapek from the April 12th 2002 Newcastle News (Copyright © Newcastle News and reprinted with Terra's permission), Click here (5k) Reprint of the article about traffic calming in Mile Post by Terra Chapek from the March 8th 2002 Newcastle News (Copyright © Newcastle News and reprinted with Terra's permission), Click here (7k)

Maps

To see a map of development in Newcastle (as of Feb 02), Click here (219k) To see a slightly blurry map of the new school and where it fits in the new Southeast development adjacent to the Highlands of Newcastle, Click here (48k) To see a map of the Mile Post neighborhood with lot numbers, Click here (146k) To see a reprint of the transit planning map that accompanied Terra Chapek's article from the March 8th 2002 Newcastle News, Click here (204k)

E13

The Issaquah School District held an informational meeting at Apollo in January 2003. At that meeting, they distributed some floor plans (103k), a revised site plan (97k) and a timeline for determining boundaries (76k). Issaquah School District has posted a notice that the opening of the school WILL BE DELAYED until fall of 2004. To see the notice (in Acrobat format) Click Here (97k) The Issaquah School District has a website with the latest news about the school at the following Link
Notice of Application for Elementary School #13 (in Acrobat format), Page 1 (158k),  Page 2 (72k),  Site Plan (222k)

Traffic Calming

To visit a terrific website about traffic calming, Click here 

Links to traffic calming papers from the Institution of Transportation Engineers website: Click Here   For definitions/pictures of various traffic calming devices from the Institution of Transportation Engineers website: Click Here 


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last updated 5/21/03