Yearly Archives: 2014

Aufstockung: Innovative Density

Aufstockung is a German term for a vertical addition. That is, an increase in height by the addition of one or more floors to...

Vote “For” the Seattle Metropolitan Park District

This primary election, Seattle voters will answer a question: do we believe that parks and community centers are an essential service, and a priority...

Incentive Zoning Program Review

In order to examine the Incentive Zoning (IZ) Program, the city hired analysts to model some different outcomes based on various assumptions. The analysts...

On a Lighter Note

  A woman in her twenties with a terrific, full-bodied Afro boards, all smiles and legs. It's nighttime on Capitol Hill during Pride week. The...

Sunday Video: National Transportation Crisis

Shabby Road by The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. This pretty much sums up just how bad things are with US national transportation policy right...

What We’re Reading: Saving Metro and Planning the City

Local headlines: Residents of affordable housing in the Central District fear that they could lose their housing due to sale of their building. Pacific Place...

Josh

  Josh is in his late teens, African-American and something else, tall but not too tall. In our youth we sometimes oscillate between dialects, particularly...

Cross-Sound Passenger Ferry Service to Return

Kitsap Transit is seeking public comment on its long awaited restoration of cross-Sound passenger only fast ferry service to Downtown Seattle. Among the three routes...