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Staff Biography

Ray Dubicki

Reporter

Ray Dubicki is a stay-at-home dad and parent-on-call for taking care of general school and neighborhood tasks around Ballard. This lets him see how urbanism works (or doesn’t) during the hours most people are locked in their office. He is an attorney and urbanist by training, with soup-to-nuts planning experience from code enforcement to university development to writing zoning ordinances. He enjoys using PowerPoint, but only because it’s no longer a weekly obligation.

Recent Articles

Striker Amendments Stalk Housing Bills in the Washington Legislature

WALeg Wednesday considers bill shrinkage and more legislative budget proposals fill in the state financial picture. In This Digest: Striker Amendments Threaten 75% to 94% of TOD Important Bills At A Glance Weekly Focus: Washington’s Operating Budget Starts...

The Urbanist Spring Events Calendar

Now that the Vernal Equinox has passed, thoughts here at The Urbanist turn to thinner socks with our Birkenstocks and other rites of spring. We have four wonderful events scheduled for the next few...

The Urbanist Podcast: Seattle’s Light Rail Expansion

It is simultaneously exciting and trying times for transit in Seattle. Over the next few years, dozens of new stops will open in Bellevue, Lynnwood, and Federal Way. At the same time, future extensions...

It Is Time For Sound Transit’s Board of Directors Meeting

How to watch and comment at today's system expansion discussion. After a lot of discussion and plenty of competing visions, it is time to hear what the Sound Transit Board of Directors is going to...

Let’s Try to be Optimistic for Once, Seattle

Any frequent reader of The Urbanist knows that we have a long and painstakingly catalogued list of gripes with Seattle. From the completely avoidable pedestrian carnage to the collapsing school district to today’s pivotal...