Our Demands

Our flyers

Jackson Park for All

09 Oct 2023 — 1 min read

Access our flyers – the same ones you may have seen at our events – below:

Our informational flyers: Demand #1: Rename the park. Andrew Jackson: Slaveowner and genocidal tyrant. Eliminate monuments to white supremacy. A better name for a better park. Demand #2: Add Accessible Pathways. The meager Perimeter Trail is wheelchair inaccessible, claustrophobic, and unpleasant. Add Accessible Pathways. Allow many more people to walk, roll, and bike to both stations. Demand #3: Free Public Green Space. Fix the Northeast Seattle Park Desert. Park Equity. We want more than golf.

UW College of Built Environments Student Designs

In 2023, a team of University of Washington students in the Community, Environment, & Planning program conducted a site analysis of “Jackson” Park. They students developed conceptual redesign proposals of the public park. 9-Hole Alternative This proposal reduces the golf course to a 9-hole course and maintains the driving range.

Community Voices for Alternative Park Usage

We conducted outreach at multiple community events where we collected votes with dot stickers on people’s preferred alternative “Jackson” Park usages. We also conducted an online survey for preferred alternative “Jackson” Park uses. The non-golf results are shown as of Nov 2023. Select quotes from comments in the online

Frequently Asked Questions

Seattle is pretty rainy. Isn’t Jackson Park Golf Course self-watering? No. The golf course drains two-thirds of Thornton Creek’s water flow in non-winter months to irrigate the course, harming salmon and other wildlife habitat. A city study performed in 1994 estimates that the golf course drains two-thirds of

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UW College of Built Environments Student Designs

Community Voices for Alternative Park Usage

Frequently Asked Questions