Drafter
Clerk 09/29/2005
Title
A MOTION endorsing the White Center Community Enhancement Initiative.
Body
WHEREAS, White Center is a 3.4-square-mile community west of State Route 509 between the city of Seattle and the city of Burien in the unincorporated area of North Highline, and
WHEREAS, White Center is a community of over twenty thousand residents, representing seventy-seven nationalities and speaking fifty-nine languages, that has come together to make a difference for future generations, and
WHEREAS, the community expressed through the adopted White Center Community Action Plan (Ordinance 11568) that "the mixture of cultural communities and economic groups that make up White Center contribute to its unique character and is reflected in businesses, community organizations, public art, and local celebrations," and
WHEREAS, King County joins the community in celebrating the ethnic diversity and economic integration of White Center, and values its role as a gateway to the region, as well as a home and destination, and
WHEREAS, the community in collaboration with the King County Housing Authority and King County made a great advancement towards achieving greater economic integration by pursuing and winning a Hope VI grant to finance the Greenbridge development, which will replace five hundred sixty-nine units of severely distressed public housing with a new nine hundred to one thousand one hundred-unit mixed-income community, and
WHEREAS, King County invested over ten million dollars in Greenbridge, and
WHEREAS, in the state of the county address, Executive Sims committed to "continue to play a leadership role in creating healthy neighborhoods that nurture and enrich our citizens' lives," and
WHEREAS, the executive is dedicated to addressing the unique conditions of White Center that have challenged its development as a healthy neighborhood, including:
A. White Center is primarily a low-income community with a large immigrant and refug...

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