Ryan Packer
Ryan Packer has been writing for The Urbanist since 2015, and currently reports full-time as Contributing Editor. Their beats are transportation, land use, public space, traffic safety, and obscure community meetings. Packer has also reported for other regional outlets including BikePortland, Seattle Met, and PubliCola. They live in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle.
Last week the city council of Portland, Oregon signed on to the Vision Zero action plan that has been developed by the Portland Bureau of...
Last Monday the Seattle City Council approved its budget for the next two years, 2017-2018. This year's budget season received added scrutiny due to...
One morning in early May of this year, shortly before leaving for work, I checked my Twitter account and learned that police activity had...
Seattle has been widely successful in getting developers to build ground floor retail as part of residential developments since the 1990s. Land use regulations in...
In 2015, over 35,000 people in the US were killed on our nation's roadways. This was the largest percentage increase over the previous year...
When the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) announced the end of an eight-year study on traffic collision data, it had a very comprehensive set...
Seattle is now more than a year into a city-declared state of emergency around the issue of homelessness. On November 2, 2015, the office...
Often when an idea comes along that the urban planning world finds intriguing, there's a race for other cities to try out that idea....