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.
Futurewise's Campaign to Update the Growth Management Act
For thirty years, Futurewise has lobbied and litigated throughout Washington to implement the state’s Growth Management Act...
Using a pack of highlighters to show the absurdity of developing a private enclave in the city.
Last Tuesday, the Seattle Department of Construction...
The Unique Urbanism of Disney’s Movie Cities
For those of us who adore movies, seven months of pandemic has been a difficult drought. We’re down...
During last week's discussion of subdivisions and the problem of slicing the city into tiny parcels, we asked for your help to find the...
Puget Sound's strangest property lines.
While researching how subdivision screws around with Seattle's growth, we've found some pretty convoluted property lines. Can you find crazier...
In debating the shape of our cities, the zoning ordinance gets a lot of the headlines. It gives us the bulk and height of...
Following several months of discussion, the City of Seattle has received the first applications for opening street space to dining. Since the Seattle Department...
Here’s the problem. Sitting through a presentation about the Ballard Interbay Regional Transportation (BIRT) Study, one finds themselves cheering for terrible options.
The issues are...