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.
It sucks when Halloween falls early in the week. The spookiest night of the year and you have to wake up for work early...
You hear it all the time, Seattle drivers are 'Just The Worst.' They’re terrible at navigating around the ubiquitous traffic circles. They’re incompetent on...
Since we last checked in on the megaproject/arcology beat, there has been some progress on the new NEOM linear city rising from the sands...
It's time to vote for Seattle City Council, a housing levy, and elected positions all over King County. The Urbanist has published its general...
“You gaslight yourself by being crazy.” - Judy Gemstone
This week’s sequence of congressional slap fights scraped the edge of a devastating government shutdown and...
Strangely, it is very difficult to answer the question: "How many zones does Seattle have?" That alone suggests an uncomfortable answer.
The Seattle Municipal Code...
Like a giant overhead bin full of cookies and cash, Alaska sits for many as potential salvation. Quietly looming above, it waits as a...
At its core, the strategy is built on the idea that “the library makes a difference in people’s lives and in the greater community."
All...