Owen Pickford

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Owen is a solutions engineer for a software company. He has an amateur interest in urban policy, focusing on housing. His primary mode is a bicycle but isn't ashamed of riding down the hill and taking the bus back up. Feel free to tweet at him: @pickovven.
This is The Urbanist's first crack at summarizing open public comment period. Each week we'll provide a list of ongoing policy that is open...
New Eyman Initiative Seeks To Stall Transportation Investments Statewide And Kill ST3
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Washington's perennial anti-tax troll Tim Eyman is back, fresh off of his failure to hurl another initiative (I-1550) across the finish line and reeling...
The University of Washington (UW) released the final details of their campus master plan on Wednesday. As reported in earlier coverage, the UW expects...
The City released a large study about implementing Mandatory Housing Affordability (MHA) in all of the city’s urban villages, some urban centers, and many...
Predictable Disagreement And Surprising Agreements Where Single-Family Zoning Meets Multi-Family
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If you take the Route 44 bus all the way to the end of the line in Ballard, you'll find yourself at the intersection...
The first public meeting on zoning I ever attended compared micro-housing construction to bombing cities. For many urbanists, comments like this are used to...
This week is affordable housing week in Seattle. There are events scheduled through next Monday, including tours, discussions, and workshops. Yesterday’s affordable housing event...
This coming Saturday, a number of Seattle grassroots organizations will be hosting the Community Power Summit. This workshop will help people engage in efforts...