Doug Trumm
Doug Trumm is the Publication Director at The Urbanist. He joined the exodus to Seattle in 2014, leaving behind his home state of Minnesota. Living on disputed land between Wallingford and Fremont, he is doing his best to improve both neighborhoods. He is a grad student at the Evans School of Public Policy and Governance and a marketing intern at King County Metro. His views are his own and do not represent his employer.
The Seattle City Council candidate forums hosted by the Move All Seattle Sustainably (MASS) coalition zeroed in on transportation and housing issues and revealed not all races were created equally.
The District 4 (D4) forum displayed a considerable consensus around adding density in...
Seattle Subway isn't an organization to rest on its laurels. Fresh off Sound Transit 3 (ST3) success--with voters greenlighting 62 miles of light rail and two bus rapid transit corridors--Seattle Subway continues to keep an eye on the next transit measure.
This is a...
The first public hearing on Councilmember Mike O'Brien's backyard cottage proposal is Tuesday June 11th, and housing activists under the umbrella group More Options for Accessory Residency (MOAR) are hosting a rally at City Hall at 5:15pm right before the hearing to turn people out. The policy...
Suburbs surrounding Seattle, some of them literally islands, are pulling up the drawbridges to growth. That is putting even more pressure on Seattle to shoulder the load for the entire metropolitan region, and it's making the window for affordable housing solutions even narrower.
Bainbridge...
Samuel Stein's new book Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State aims to challenge urban planning orthodoxy. Writing from a socialist perspective with New York City as his case study, Stein recounts how urban planning arose to meet the needs of capitalists, industrialists, and colonizers. Today,...
Yesterday Seattle Deputy Hearing Examiner Barbara Dykes Ehrlichman dismissed Queen Anne Community Council's appeal of the City's backyard cottage reform. The same appellant had already forced the City to do an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) after challenging the City's Determination of Non-Significance (DNS) under the State Environmental...
Why not use the revenue to build affordable housing?
The Washington State Legislature was busy as it sprinted toward the end of the 2019 session. One big change to tax policy to come out of that mad dash was the augmented and graduated real...
West Seattle really wants a tunnel have you heard? While that desire been clear for a good while, no serious funding plans for the tunnel option--which would cost at least $700 million more--have materialized.
The latest idea from the Stakeholder Advisory Group (SAG) was...
