What Is the Correct Percentage of Single-Family Zoning in Seattle?
Three years ago, the previous mayor’s Housing Affordability and Livability Agenda (HALA) draft proposal was leaked to the press, which zeroed in on just...
Seattle Considers Greater Tree Planting and Preservation Measures
Seattle has a citywide goal of 30% tree canopy coverage by 2037. While the city is 2% short of that goal according to the...
City Council Allows Taller Wood Buildings, Reforms Street Vacation Process and Advances Waterfront LID
On Monday, the Seattle City Council approved several actions related to land use and public space. These included revisions to the Seattle Building Code...
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...
Allow Cooperatives in Seattle’s Single Family Zones to Boost Affordable Housing
Seattle is in the midst of a broad and deep housing shortage affecting households across the economic spectrum, which will require bold action on...
Trees + Density = Livability
Last October, Seattle Weekly republished an article headlined, ‘Will Seattle Finally Protect its tree canopy’, which was followed a few days later by Seattle Mag’s...
Is It Time for a Radical Rethinking of Open Space in Seattle?
Seattle’s urban villages suffer not only from inadequate space to build multifamily housing, but there is also a massive open space inequity versus-single family...
Dawson’s Extreme Cities Argues for Extreme Climate Change Adaptation
Cape Town’s Day Zero, the day that most water taps in the city will be turned off, has been pushed back to 2019, but...