Monthly Archives: May 2018
Top Urbanist Action: Voice Support for Head Tax to Fund Housing
Show Up and Support $75 million a Year for Affordable Housing: The committee vote on employee hours "head" tax is happening this week on...
Mayor Durkan Renews Seattle’s Quest for Regional Partnership on Homelessness
On Thursday Mayor Jenny Durkan announced a new regional partnership to combat homelessness alongside King County Executive Dow Constantine. Mayor Durkan said consolidating provision...
Trees + Density = Livability
Last October, Seattle Weekly republished an article headlined, ‘Will Seattle Finally Protect its tree canopy’, which was followed a few days later by Seattle Mag’s...
Funding Outlook for Seattle’s Bicycle Master Plan is Bleak
While we wait for the full results of the Durkan administration's reassessment of spending and deliverables in Seattle's nine-year Move Seattle transportation levy, details...
Sunday Video: Urban Gondolas
https://youtu.be/vdTE4TCqkZo
In this video, City Beautiful highlights gondolas as transportation.
For New Bus Drivers: Thoughts, Tips, and Stories
There's a ton of you guys out there these days. Welcome. Here's what I wish they'd told me when I began:
Generally, bus drivers don’t...
Get Thee to Middle Fork, Cyclists
Skirting the eastern edges of the greater Seattle area, the Snoqualmie River flows down from the Cascades through a broad river valley spread with...
Is It Time for a Radical Rethinking of Open Space in...
Seattle’s urban villages suffer not only from inadequate space to build multifamily housing, but there is also a massive open space inequity versus-single family...