Issaquah Highlands TDR Deal Could Boost Housing And Preserve Nature
Local development firm Polygon Northwest requested use of transfer of development rights (TDRs) for their Westridge development in the Issaquah Highlands earlier this year....
Seattle City Council Setting The Framework For HALA
The Seattle City Council met last night as the Select Committee on Housing Affordability, an ad hoc committee formed to discuss, vet, and realize...
Share the City: Support the Full HALA Recommendations
Last week, amid much histrionics, The Seattle Times leaked a draft report of the Housing Affordability and Livability Agenda (HALA) Committee. Owen chimed in...
Cascadia Innovation Attempts to Overcome Cascading Climate Dangers
I want to do an even handed and dutiful reporting job about the 2021 Cascadia Innovation Corridor conference. But I’m in an downtown Vancouver...
Applications For Big Mixed-Use In Othello, Still A Developer Fail
Path America's "public market" mixed-use development plan has officially been submitted to the Seattle Department of Planning and Development (DPD). Hatched as a project on...
Sunday Video: Should Cities Expand Into The Sea?
https://youtu.be/Ak-kAdhh8-o
City Beautiful explores the topic of land reclamation, the process of turning shallow water areas into land.
Sunday Video: How Conquistadors Designed Cities in the Americas
https://youtu.be/4aJ0tRd10I4
Dave Amos of City Beautiful explains the history of city design in the Americas, which were shaped by the Spanish Conquistadors.
Agriculture Approaches A Crossroads In Pierce County
The future of agricultural lands stands at a crossroads in Pierce County. For more than a year, Pierce County has been locked into a...