Current Green Lake Project

The City plans to replace the 70-year-old Green Lake Aquatic Facility, but current designs propose replacing the current 6-lane, 25-yard lap recreation pool with one of the same size. This petition advocates building a more multi-use, larger pool that truly would enable an aquatic facility to meet current and future aquatic needs. This is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to do better.

Looking Ahead

The City of Seattle currently has no year-round pools larger than six lanes. In contrast, most modern aquatic facilities that support swim teams have eight or more lanes, and many cities invest in 50-meter configurable pools to allow multiple programs to run simultaneously.

Bigger, more flexible pools are essential to meeting our community’s water safety, recreation, fitness, and competitive aquatic needs.

Over the roughly 70 years since the Green Lake Pool was built, according to the United States Census Bureau, Seattle’s population has grown from 467,591 in 1950 to 737,015 in 2020, an approximately 58%. Yet, the city added only one new public pool after the 1970s, Mounger Pool in 1998, despite continued population growth in every decade.

Seattle is surrounded by water, yet King County averages approximately 27 drowning deaths per year, more than 70% of which may be preventable. According to the CDC (2018–2022), Washington State ranks 9th nationally in drowning rates.

Seattle can and should do better!

What You Can Do

We respectfully urge you to Sign this Petition.

Additionally, contact Seattle officials, including Mayor Kate Wilson,  Debora Juarez (Seattle City Councilmember representing Parks), Dan Strauss (Seattle City Councilmember representing Green Lake), Dionne Foster (Citywide Rep), Alexis Mercedes Rinck (Citywide Rep), and your local City Councilmember to advocate for expanded public pool capacity at Green Lake and across Seattle. Click here for materials. The Green Lake Pool project is moving forward, and with strong community support, it can be expanded to better serve current and future generations.

We urge project planners, city officials, and stakeholders to prioritize this expansion so the facility truly serves the needs of our community, today and for decades to come.

Sign this petition to support a larger Green Lake pool that can meet present and long-term programming needs for Green Lake and the broader Seattle community.