Land Use

6-story buildings in Downtown Bothell

Vision 2050 Has Passed. On to Visions 2024.

Puget Sound's long-term regional planning document has passed. Now the individual city planning begins. On Friday, the Puget Sound Regional Council (PSRC) adopted Vision 2050,...

City Council Passes Temporary Moratorium on Mobile Home Park Redevelopment, Waterfront LID

On Monday, the Seattle City Council approved a temporary moratorium on mobile home sites across the city, limiting the ability of those sites from...
The rendering shows a light rail station connected to a park near roads.

Improving Bellevue’s Grand Connection: Part 3 – Downtown Link Light Rail to I-405 Lid...

This article is the final in a three-part series that takes a close look at Bellevue's Grand Connection, a significant planning effort to make...

Micro Housing Part 4: Minimum Wage Analogy

Article Note: This is the fourth installment of a five-part series on micro housing, see Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 5 as well. Thus far, the arguments...

Why the ‘finesse of the avenue’ is what cities need

Fourth in an illustrated series about place-decoding from the South of France. The Finesse of the Avenue Last month in Cassis, the Avenue Victor Hugo told the stories surrounding its...
A conceptual pedestrian lane over I-5 between Pike Street and Pine Street, tying into the Pike-Pine commercial corridor and proximity to the busy Convention Center. Click to enlarge and see a before-and-after view. (Graphic by the author)

Lidding I-5 in Downtown Seattle: Cost Estimates and Case Studies

Yesterday, I covered the need for lid parks in Downtown Seattle and what they should be used for. In this article, I look at (very...

University of Washington’s Draft 2018 Seattle Campus Master Plan

The University of Washington (UW) is deep into its Seattle campus master planning update for 2018. Earlier this month, the university released the draft...

Introducing “Seattle in Progress,” a mobile web app for engaging Seattle in planning and...

  I pass construction sites every day — it's hard not to in Seattle — and every time I do, I wonder what's being built....