Tag: cheasty greenspace

September 23, 2022

After a decade of community organizing, city will officially open the Cheasty mountain bike and hiking trails October 1

The Cheasty Mountain Bike and Pedestrian Trails project first won grant funding to clear out invasive greenery to create a recreation area between Rainier Valley and Beacon Hill in 2013, and supporters have been bushwhacking through the Seattle Process ever since. One decade later, Seattle is finally ready to cut the ribbon on the South…
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tagged: beacon bike park, cheasty greenspace, cheasty trails and bike park, evergreen mountain bike alliance, parks and recreation
February 1, 2016

Hearing Examiner: Cheasty mountain biking and hiking trails need more study

Another Seattle bike trail plan has run into delays from the environmental review process, this time a mountain biking and hiking trail. After years of community outreach, heated debates and evolving designs, the Cheasty Trails and Bike Park cleared vital hurdles last year by getting approval from both the Parks Board and the City Council.…
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tagged: beacon hill, cheasty greenspace, cheasty trails and bike park, hearing examiner, joel dejong, rainier valley, rainier vista
October 12, 2015

Cheasty Trails and Bike Park finally secures its $100,000 grant

The folks behind the Cheasty Trails and Bike Park project have been working for years to receive city permission and win grants to restore and activate the hilly Cheasty Greenspace between Rainier Valley and Beacon Hill. The idea gained a lot of steam and community support, but it also encountered some pretty serious opposition. The…
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tagged: beacon bike park, beacon hill, cheasty greenspace, cheasty greenspace mountain bike pilot project, cheasty trails and bike park, joel dejong, mary dejong
June 2, 2015

After years of public process, Cheasty Greenspace trails plan gets green light

After a years long, sometimes heated public process, the Seattle Parks Board voted unanimously to move forward with a pilot set of soft surface biking and walking trails in the hilly Cheasty Greenspace natural area between Rainier Vista and Beacon Hill. The Parks Board of Commissioners (a volunteer advisory board that the Parks Dept. takes…
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tagged: beacon bike park, beacon hill, board of parks commissioners, cheasty greenspace, cheasty greenspace mountain bike pilot project, rainier valley
January 29, 2015

Parks Board wants more MTB and walking trails in Cheasty

Developing plans to create new walking and mountain bike trails in the overgrown Cheasty Greenspace between Rainier Vista and Beacon Hill has run into a problem: The proposed plan may not include enough trails to meet the project’s goals. That’s the essence of a recent letter (PDF) from the largely advisory Board of Parks Commissioners to…
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tagged: board of parks commissioners, cheasty greenspace, cheasty greenspace mountain bike pilot project
July 23, 2014

Cheasty Greenspace mountain bike trail clears Council committee vote

A community plan to build sustainable mountain bike and hiking trails in Cheasty Greenspace has barely cleared a key City Council committee vote, bringing it one step closer to winning the Neighborhood Matching Funds it needs to become reality, Publicola reports. The full City Council is scheduled to vote on the NMF list Monday, though more…
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tagged: beacon bike park, beacon hill, cheasty greenspace, cheasty greenspace mountain bike pilot project, city council, neighborhood matching fund