SEATTLE — A North Seattle neighborhood is losing half of its street because the city says it can't afford to repair it.
The street is Fourth Avenue Northwest between Northwest 90th and 92nd streets in Greenwood.
When Lisa Beamer saw a notice of the project posted on her mailbox Saturday she immediately began writing her own notice to us and to to Seattle City Council leaders.
“So now that you have our money, you intend to ruin the value of our homes and our neighborhood? No,” she read to us.
She also made an appeal to her neighbors.
“[The notice] states they do not have the funds to fix the problem, so they will just wall it off,” she read from her letter to the neighborhood.
She's going door to door to make sure everyone gets the message: Fourth Avenue Northwest should not be narrowed.
"I'm fighting it and I hope everyone else will with me, because this is ridiculous. So I have a little packet here,” Beamer told one of her neighbors, passing him a packet of information she compiled.
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Beamer's street has been a problem for years. Greenwood was built on peat moss and peat moss is absorbent, so parts of Greenwood -- Fourth Avenue Northwest included -- sink.
The street is dangerously uneven, with one side collapsed. Beamer says at least twice when it has gotten to this point, the city has come out and repaved to fix the problem.
“Basically chip seal over the top and it worked for another eight or 10 years,” she explained.
This time, the city says -- right on the notice Beamer received -- that a repair project is too costly, so instead the Seattle Department of Transportation SDOT is narrowing the road, coning off the side that's sinking and eliminating 10 parking spots.
“So in other words, they've taken my money and they're just going to say, ‘To hell with you people on NW Fourth, we're just going to fix somewhere else with it,’” Beamer told us.
We reached out to SDOT and got no response. Their flier says they've done this elsewhere Beamer's street is not alone.
She's holding a neighborhood meeting at her house tomorrow night to ensure she's not alone, either.