The Seattle Department of Neighborhoods is collecting ideas for the 2018 Your Voice, Your Choice: Parks and Streets program.

Started last year, the city is again taking community ideas for small-scale parks and street projects. There is $3 million in the city’s budget for the 2018 Your Voice, Your Choice participatory budgeting initiative, and each project must cost $90,000 or less.

The first phase will be gathering ideas, which people can provide here by Feb. 2.

There are a number of 2017 YVYC project proposals that didn’t receive funding and are being carried forward for consideration this year. In Capitol Hill, that includes improving accessibility to the Volunteer Park entrance and numerous street crossing improvements and traffic calming projects. A map of all projects is available here. 

A DON steering committee will convene February to July to assess projects and go over development. Committee members will receive $50 an hour for their work, not to exceed 13 hours. Applications are due by 6 p.m. Friday, Jan. 19, and can be made here.

Once projects are lined up, a community vote will be held to decide which will receive funding. That will run from June 16-July 16, and projects will be divided among city council districts.