Mobile Home Park Protections to Preserve Up to 11 Acres for Affordable Housing in...
The Seattle City Council has passed another six month development moratorium for the city's two remaining mobile home parks. The legislation, which passed 7-0,...
What Everyone Took Away from Seattle’s 2022 Budget
The Seattle City Council approved the City's 2022 budget on Monday after a few dramatic last-minute amendment showdowns. Advocacy groups quickly set to work...
Snohomish County Contemplates Growth Scenarios Ranging from Urban Infill to Sprawl
Like many local governments, Snohomish County has kicked off their comprehensive planning process to meet a state-mandated deadline to update the county's 20-year growth...
Sunday Video: The Trains That Subsidize Suburbia
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Jason Slaughter of Not Just Bikes shows how Toronto's GO Transit commuter rail is primarily setup to subsidize the suburbs without providing real, regular...
Latest Tacoma Growth Map Scales Back Density
Tacoma had considered allowing low-rise apartments in 40% of residential parcels, but the latest proposal has pared that back to 17.5%.
Tacoma is in a...
Mosqueda’s Budget Balancing Package Advances Progressive Priorities and Bridge Maintenance Bonds
Budget Chair Teresa Mosqueda's balancing package, released yesterday, would amend Mayor Jenny Durkan's 2022 budget proposal to invest more in street safety, homelessness services,...
Where Urbanists and Progressives Go from Poor 2021 Showing
Council President Lorena González's resounding loss to former Council President Bruce Harrell marks the third straight Seattle mayoral election in which the progressive fell...
Transit-Oriented Development Planned for Kent/Des Moines Station, Additional Feedback Sought
Two surplus lots are up for redevelopment at the future Kent/Des Moines Station. Sound Transit has about four acres of land that it wants...