Will These Four Housing Bills Pass the Washington State Legislature This Year?

Four land use bills affecting housing are at a critical juncture in the 2019 session of the Washington State Legislature. Both houses have passed...

Cascadia Needs New Zoning, Not New Cities

Abolishing apartment bans is how we grow as a region, not sprouting entire new cities in pasture. The Cascadia Vision 2050 report made it onto...

Sunday Video: New York Is Building a Wall to Hold Back the Ocean

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9asEJokafM New York City has plans for a new sea wall on Staten Island. The sea wall is in response to the global climate emergency...

DEIS Shows Options and Urgency of Pending Backyard Cottage Reform

Seattle, a city of 348,000 homes, has built just 579 backyard cottages since 1994, the year the region also enacted an urban growth boundary...
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Alaska Will Not Save Us

Like a giant overhead bin full of cookies and cash, Alaska sits for many as potential salvation. Quietly looming above, it waits as a...

Op-Ed: Convert Street Parking to Trees to Hit Seattle Canopy Goals Sooner

Seattle could meet its 30% tree canopy goal much quicker by converting a quarter of its 500,000 on-street parking spaces. The paving to planting conversion would convey many benefits, cooling neighborhoods and absorbing runoff.

Measuring Success on the Urban Villages Strategy, Part 2: Resource Use, Conservation, and Healthy...

Editor's Note: This is Part 2 in a three-part series on measuring the success of Seattle's urban village strategy. For background on the report, see...

Georgetown’s Mini Mart City Park: From Toxic Waste to Community Space

At 6525 Ellis Avenue in Georgetown a typical summer block party is in full swing. The street, closed to traffic, bustles with people standing...