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The immediate station area of BelRed station

East Link TOD: BelRed’s Scattered Development Could Preface Bigger Housing Boom

Near Bel-Red Station, more than 3,500 new homes have been built or permitted since 2017. However, development has been patchy due to uneven zoning.

Market Street Developments Are Creating A New Urban Neighborhood East of Ballard

There’s a spot just inside Seattle's Gilman Park where the scent of turned earth and new asphalt mingles with that of cooking grains coming...

Catch Up on Bellevue’s Park Development Spree and Incoming Parks

Alongside a flurry of commercial and to a lesser degree residential development, the City of Bellevue has been improving and expanding its park system...
Trench cut in dirt with an intersection of iron pipes and a lightly colored stormwater crossing.

Join for Permitting Impediments Forum on April 26

SPU oversteps their authority per state law and overcharges developments for new water service connections. Here’s how to fight back. It is time to take...

Natural Light In Buildings: NIMBY Rhetoric Or Livability Staple

Cities face a complex web of interconnected problems today — affordability, transportation, safety, livability and many others. Often these problems appear to be in...

To Meet Housing and Sustainability Goals, Seattle Must Streamline Land Use Code

Few things perfectly encapsulate the problems of planning like a city’s land use code. Unlike the building code, which dictates the life safety requirements...

Chinatown and Transit Advocates Push for 4th Avenue Light Rail Station

As Sound Transit lays out 90 miles of new track, 57 new stations, and three new light rail lines over the next 20 years,...
Viet Wah with apartments developing in the back

Kuo/郭: Watching Chinatown’s Gentrifying/Generational Change

Some of my earliest memories of taking public transit were the times when my maternal grandparents would occasionally walk me and my brother to...