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Ray Dubicki

Ray Dubicki
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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.
An we come upon the last day of the year, a perfect opportunity to look through The Urbanist's media archive for a retrospective of...
A Metro bus operating on a snowy Beacon Hill. (Owen Pickford)
Transit systems in the Puget Sound region will once again offer fare-free New Years Eve rides. The exception in Pierce Transit, which is charging...
"And the bells are ringing out for Christmas Day." For the quarter of humanity celebrating a holiday in this hemisphere of the globe pointed away...

URBANIST G.O.R.E. 2023!

Once again at the darkest part of the year, we gather in the spirit of Krampus, the Christmas demon who takes bad children into...
Looking around North America, it appears that cities hit a certain size and get rewarded with a catalogue of light rails to choose from....
A photo of the Seattle City Hall with tall glass buildings illuminated at dusk in the background.
In this week's episode, Ray Dubicki tracks the last few weeks of Seattle City Council meetings to listen in as a fairly small amendment...
A photo of an outdoor dining area with plants.
Highway Lids, Design Review Waivers for Affordable Housing, Continuing Streateries, and Easing Food Truck Restrictions In its final full meeting of 2022, the Seattle City...
The wonderful and extensively traveled Tom Scott was in Vancouver to talk about the University of British Columbia's Rabbit Line, a 2.5 km pipeline...