outreach
Community outreach that produces results requires a strategic plan and proactive, grassroots interaction. EnviroIssues specializes in hands-on community outreach for projects including neighborhood design, local construction, geotechnical exploration, and all other activities that benefit from close coordination with communities. We inspire confidence, and we deliver what communities need – timely, accurate, understandable information in a variety of formats, including the friendly spoken word. We help people get answers and resolve problems; and our clients’ projects work better because of it.
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The flexible, festive, and much improved Park Lane
Community residents, the Mayor of Kirkland, city staff and EnviroIssues gathered in late May at Kirkland’s newly designed Park Lane to cut the ribbon—giant scissors and all—and welcome the newly … more
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The South Park bridge carries a big responsibility
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The age-old saying that plagues old bridges rang true in the South Seattle neighborhood of South Park: old, deficient and seismically unsound. That’s the label King County placed on the South Park … more
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Off the mainland, but not off the grid
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When folks in the San Juan Islands need electricity, they turn to the member-owned, non-profit cooperative OPALCO. And when the co-op wanted to add broadband to the services they provide, they turned … more
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Comments on transit plans? We’ve got thousands.
Sound Transit is revisiting its Long-Range Plan to bring previous studies up-to-date and lay the groundwork for a potential regional transit ballot measure in the next few years. With … more
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Pardon our progress, it’s a little messy
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The Mercer Corridor stretches through Seattle’s urban core, from I-5 to a major arterial through a dense, newly-developed area called South Lake Union. Locals and tourists alike have spent more … more
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A bright horizon…bright with brake lights, that is
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What do the Aurora Borealis and Shoreline’s Aurora Corridor have in common? Both light up the sky, though in Shoreline, it’s often brake lights on the horizon! Aurora Avenue N (SR 99) is … more
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West Seattle’s new one-million-gallon neighbor
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Sewer systems fall in that category of “things people don’t want to talk about.” We want them to work, but don’t necessarily want to learn all the inside details. So, when King County began thinking … more
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Connecting people is...well, in our nature
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The need to connect to nature is so strong that even our clichés about urban life reflect it: concrete jungle, skyscraper forest. The Portland-Vancouver area has many green spaces for … more