The North Corridor Task Force is addressing key issues for communities along the corridor, which extends over 30 miles from downtown Seattle to downtown Everett, encompassing over 30 transit nodes along the funded University LINK and North LINK light rail lines through northeast Seattle, the planned Sound Transit light rail extension to Lynnwood, and select major transit investments from Lynnwood to Everett, including Community Transit Swift bus rapid transit.

Contact: Sara Schott Nikolic, 206-971-3288

Meeting Summaries and Past Presentations

Task Force Members

Membership of the Corridor Task Forces consists of appointments made by the Oversight Committee upon the nomination of Consortium partners, with assistance of project staff & Affordable Housing and Equity Network Steering Committees.

Shane Hope, Co-Chair – City of Mountlake Terrace
Catherine Stanford Co-Chair – Leadership for Great Neighborhoods

Rebecca Barnes – University of Washington
Paul Cohen – City of Shoreline
Pat Cordova – Community Homework Center
June DeVoll – Community Transit
Chris Fiori – Heartland
Allan Giffen – City of Everett
Heidi Hall - Equity Network
Tom Hauger – City of Seattle
Brock Howell – Futurewise
Chris Jowell – Senior Services of Snohomish County
Paul Krauss - City of Lynnwood
Craig Krueger – Community Land Planning
Van Kuno – Immigrant & Refugee Services Northwest
Jay Larson – Snohomish County
Tory Laughlin Taylor – Bellweather Housing
Sally Marks – King County
Peter Mayer – Snohomish Health District
Donna Moss – Shoreline Community Member
Patrick Pierce – Economic Alliance of Snohomish County
Gary Prince – King County Metro Transit
Linda Pruitt - The Cottage Company
Fred Safstrom – Housing Hope
Matt Shelden – Sound Transit
Reid Shockey - Shockey Planning Group
Brian Sullivan - Seattle Housing Authority
Julie West – Public Health – Seattle and King County
Rich White - Boeing

Alternates

Peter Dane – City of Mountlake Terrace
Brigitte Fisher - Immigrant and Refugee Services Northwest
David Goldberg – City of Seattle
Jeanette Henderson – University of Washington
Jared Jonson - King County
Kristin Kelly - Futurewise
Dave Koenig – City of Everett
Janiene Lambert - City of Lynnwood
Kate Lichtenstein – Sound Transit
Rachael Markle – City of Shoreline
Troy McClelland – Economic Alliance of Snohomish County
Michael Zelinski – Snohomish County

More Information

A total of 31 station areas and other transit nodes will be looked at in the North Corridor all the way up to Everett. The station areas and other transit nodes include major employment centers, such as Paine Field, residential neighborhoods, such as Roosevelt, and major institutions. To date, planning for transit-oriented communities in the corridor ranged from recently completed neighborhood and subarea plans around several existing stations, to long-range visioning exercises along corridor segments, to preliminary light rail alignment studies.

The North Corridor Task Force will address key issues for the North Corridor, to include:

• Transitioning to pedestrian-scale land uses and design along auto-oriented corridors
• Overcoming historical market barriers to development
• Achieving station area growth in ways that preserve community assets for current and future residents
• Linking a range of housing choices with centers that offer living wage employment opportunities