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.
Sound Transit CEO Julie Timm was our guest for The Urbanist's monthly talk series in May. Timm took the reins in September after coming...
Purchasing an abandoned high school for $100,000, three developers carved out a lovely 31 unit apartment building in the Pittsburgh suburb of Homestead, Pennsylvania....
We get a lot of news-ish emails about ranking cities in lists. Whether it's the best cities for strange hats or the metros that...
Next week is standardized testing at the kiddos’ school. The normal seven-class-a-day schedule will be reorganized to allow morning and afternoon blocks long enough...
This week, Dave Amos over at City Beautiful does an excellent job discussing the history and pitfalls of historic districts. From their early application...
Through May and June, Seattle’s City Council will be considering a comprehensive rezoning of the city’s industrial lands. The changes are a long time...
While a non-trivial portion of Emerald City's economy (and, honestly, personality) is coffee based, we don't often take the time to consider what our...
This is a quote from a book and a song, so I can use it as a title. Even with a questionable intensifier.
Today is...