Op-Ed: How to Fix Seattle’s Plan to Expand Lower Woodland Playfields

Seattle Public Schools (SPS) is seeking to add a new football/soccer hybrid field for Lincoln High School in Lower Woodland Park, but has chosen a plan that prioritizes parking over accessibility and events, scrapping a recently rebuilt soccer field and historic trees to cram two fields into a footprint that’s too small. The community has proposed an alternative utilizing a gravel parking lot to site a soccer field.