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Community Building at Cedar Park
The mission of the Renton Housing Authority (RHA) is to render excellent and caring service to all those
who share the community. Recreation centers are important to communities because they provide
residents with a better quality of life by providing an enormous variety of educational, social, and
recreational activities tailored to the interests of the members of the community. In accordance with
furthering its mission, the Authority has committed to providing a Community Building at Cedar Park
apartments, located at 408 Monroe Avenue NE in Renton.
Since community recreation centers play such a vital role in the healthy development of communities, it
is of the utmost importance to ensure that the Community Building at Cedar Park has all the resources
necessary for optimum performance. RHA desires a multi-purpose space at Cedar Park where residents
can gather, and where the Authority can provide needed programming and services to benefit the
health and well-being of the community at large.
RHA has envisioned a single-story Community Center with a single, simple footprint, possibly utilizing
and expanding some of the existing structure footprint. The design will be limited to 2,000 square feet
or less so as not to trigger any NEPA/SEPA issues. The building will encompass a small lobby, large
community gathering space, three offices, and restrooms. As part of the facility, enhancement of the
surrounding grounds and landscaping would promote outdoor community gathering space.
As an example of the proposed approach, the following figure represents a hypothetical footprint
derived from the existing structure:
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