1909 年 5 月 10 日，西雅图市议会批准公园委员会的请求，请求启用法定征用程序获取贝利 (Bailey) 半岛，作为将要建设的苏厄德公园场地。1908 年，西雅图市与该地产所有者开始谈判此交易，但最终因价格问题未能达成协议。该市通过实施土地征用权（政府将私有房地产收归作为公用的权力），宣判政府对 该地产的所有权，价格由独立的第三方鉴定人确定。
1909 年 5 月 10 日，西雅图市议会启用法定征用程序收取土地以建设苏厄德公园
- By Cassandra Tate
- Posted 9/05/2010
- HistoryLink.org Essay 9563
Sources:
"Request of Park Board Trustees for Condemnation of Bailey Peninsula for Park Purposes" (filed April 30, 1909, No. 36749), "Report of Corporation Counsel in Regard to Bailey Peninsula" (filed March 31, 1910, No. 40560); "Communication from Park Board in Regard to Condemnation of Bailey Peninsula" (filed June 20, 1910, No. 40770), and "Request of Board of Park Commissioners that City Council Pass an Ordinance Condemning Certain Property in Maynard’s Lake Washington Addition for Opening Up a Street from Mt. Baker Park to Bailey Peninsula" (filed December 31, 1910, No. 42416), Comptroller/Clerk Files, City Documents Collection, Seattle Municipal Archives, Seattle; Kathy Mulady, "City Celebrates Park Pioneer Olmsted," Seattle Post Intelligencer, April 2, 2003 (www.seattlepi.com); Donald Sherwood, "Seward Park -- History," December 3, 1973, in Sherwood Park History Files, Seattle Parks and Recreation website accessed September 2010 (http://www.seattle.gov/PARKS/history/sherwood.htm); Paul Talbert, "The History of Seward Park," Seattle Friends of Seward Park website accessed September 2010 (www.sewardpark.org).
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