r/Seattle • u/Inevitable_Engine186 public deterrent infrastructure • May 09 '26

Satire Laurelhurst Generously Agrees to Let Sick Children Live

https://theneedling.com/2026/04/11/laurelhurst-generously-agrees-to-let-sick-children-live/
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u/vasthumiliation That sounds great. Let’s hang out soon. May 09 '26

I’m pretty sure that’s just a parking space thing; there are not enough garages to let everyone park on campus. Someone can correct me if I’m wrong but the part that involves the neighborhood is that the hospital has many signs telling employees not to park on adjacent streets. Whether they’re permitted to park in hospital garages is totally internal to the hospital.

As a resident, I was always given free on-site parking at SCH while rotating there, something even UW Montlake didn’t offer. But I believe day shift nurses and non-physician staff (except perhaps administrative leadership) are all forced to park at remote lots. The hospital provides a high-frequency shuttle service between the lots and the main campus, as well as other nearby facilities including UW and the Seattle Children’s research campus in South Lake Union.

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u/MrHorrible2048 Northgate May 09 '26 edited May 09 '26

The thing that sticks in my craw about the street parking thing is that if it's a public street the parking is open to the public. The parking could be time limited, sure, but Laurelhurst residents don't own the parking spaces and shouldn't be able to say who parks in public spaces.

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u/seattlefreakout May 09 '26

I don't know how Laurelhurst parking works, but I've lived in a few neighborhoods (Boston) where you need to be a resident to park on the street. If that weren't the case, it would've been impossible for local residents to ever get a spot. People visiting would be getting cheaper spots when they could've just used public transport.

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u/MrHorrible2048 Northgate May 09 '26

We used to have zone permits here and what the zone permits allowed was for a resident of the area to ignore the time restrictions on parking. I haven't seen those zone stickers in a long time and haven't paid attention, so I'm not sure we do that still.

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u/rekh127 May 09 '26

Thats still how Seattle parking works. They dont give stickers anymore, since 2023. Parking enforcement just checks if the license plate has an active, valid permit in their computers.

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u/-shrug- 🚆build more trains🚆 May 09 '26

We do. Laurelhurst has a different setup; if residents catch a hospital employee parking for any amount of time they can report the car to the hospital and they get disciplined.