Ray Dubicki
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.
Prepare for light rail, slow down Interbay, and save 15th Avenue
Imagine for a moment taking a pleasant walk from Ballard to Queen Anne. Coming...
Middle age, quarterbacks, and "Don’t Look Up"
Here we are at the threshold of the most important celebration of the year: my birthday. As it...
New Year! New Horrors! Pay for the whole year, but you’ll only need the edge!
In the spirit of Krampus, the Christmas demon who takes...
Recast Your City is subtitled “How to save your downtown with small-scale manufacturing,” which gives the impression that it’s a one trick book. But...
A short walk through the long history of discriminatory housing ads
It’s interesting to sift through historic print newspaper advertisements and get a glimpse of...
Since the smaller of Seattle’s industrial areas is squeezed between three of the city’s richest neighborhoods, Interbay’s future is deeply uncertain. Development pressures are...
It's been a year, and we've said some questionable things. As we draw to a close the grand national celebration of colonization and move...
I want to do an even handed and dutiful reporting job about the 2021 Cascadia Innovation Corridor conference. But I’m in an downtown Vancouver...