CNU25 Workshop: Community-Oriented Housing
About fifty Congress for the New Urbanism conference attendees came together to learn about Community-Oriented Housing on the first full day of CNU25. The workshop,...
Sound Transit Updates Station Wayfinding and Seattle Implements New Street Wayfinding
As the Puget Sound Region comes out of a year's-long pandemic hibernation, local agencies are hard at work improving the wayfinding system for people...
Housing Notes: Capitol Hill Safeway Mixed-Use Design Review, TOD in Lynnwood and Northgate
First a quick factoid to kick off this installment of housing notes. U.S. Census data shows that housing construction is on the rise across...
U District Design Guidelines To Get Major Overhaul
The University District is a neighborhood experiencing fast-paced change as new development takes shape in the heat of Seattle's historic building boom. A significant...
Sunday Video: Train Stations Are Making A Comeback, But Why?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-YGVytC-7s
In this video, Dave from City Beautiful talks about how historic train stations are experiencing a renaissance in America and how they're leading to...
Improvements to Seattle’s Design Review Program
The Department of Planning and Development (DPD) is engaging with stakeholders and residents to develop improvements for the City's Design Review Program. In 1994,...
Seattle Inches Down Path to Design Review Overhaul with New Report
Three years after the Seattle City Council tasked the department of construction with examining how to reform its cumbersome design review process, the agency released its report. The department still remains nearly a year away from making substantive changes to design review.
Mapping Historic Ballard Grand Reveal Today
It's been a long haul since the November kick-off, but wait until you see what over a hundred volunteers mapped over 1,000+ hours and what...