Residents can give Kent city parks staff input at two public meetings about development of the new East Hill North Community in the Panther Lake area.<\/p>\n
Staff wants to know what people want to see in the new park on 33 acres near 132nd Avenue SE and SE 216th <\/a>Street<\/a>.<\/p>\n The site offers beautiful views of Mount Rainier plus it provides a critical connection to the Soos Creek Regional Trail.<\/p>\n Phase 1 of this project includes parking, utilities, restroom, shelter, children’s play area with nature-based play, nature trails, and ecological restoration consisting of native meadows, forests, and wetlands.<\/p>\n The City Council is asking the state Legislature for $2 million this session to help pay for the new park.<\/p>\n Give your input at upcoming meetings:<\/p>\n • Tuesday, Jan. 17 (2 to 6 p.m.) at Panther Lake Safeway, 20830 108th Ave. SE<\/p>\n • Saturday, Jan. 21 (open design sessions at 10 a.m. and noon at Sunrise Elementary School cafeteria, 22300 132nd Ave. SE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Parks staff wants to know what residents want on the 33-acre site in Panther Lake area <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":61464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,7],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61463"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61463"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=61463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}