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Council backs staff outreach on weekend ‘festival street’ plan for downtown; expects MOU with Metro/Sound Transit next
Summary
Federal Way — City public‑works staff sketched a plan to close a downtown block on weekends to host an expanded farmers market and other street events, and council authorized staff to begin MOU and transit‑reroute conversations.
Federal Way — Public Works Director EJ (last name on file) presented a feasibility sketch for a downtown “festival street” that would close the section between Townsquare Park and the Performing Arts Center on weekends to host a larger farmers market, holiday or cultural markets and other street events.
EJ said the block could accommodate vendor spaces on both sides of the center travel lane, allow pedestrian circulation in the middle, and host food trucks or vendor tents if Metro and Sound Transit rerouted weekend bus service. He told councilors the…
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