State Improves Model Code to Promote Middle Housing
The state responded to feedback from urbanists and homebuilders by finetuning its draft model code for missing middle housing to be more generous around lot coverage, floor area ratio, setbacks, and design standards.
Missing Large Housing and Berkeley’s Push to End Apartment Bans
Historically, Berkeley has been a hotbed of resistance to new housing and an innovator in excluding people of color. In fact, Berkeley was the...
Africatown Designs Its Future: Part 1
A year has passed since Africatown Community Land Trust acquired a twenty percent ownership stake of the land parcel at 23rd and Union in...
Planners Proposed Bigger Upzones Before Harrell’s Team Intervened, Records Show
A paper trail from fall 2023 shows that Mayor Harrell's office overruled his planning department and cut transit corridor upzones and halved the number of proposed "neighborhood centers" before release of the growth strategy.
Newcastle Mayor Pushed to Scrub Climate Change, Equity from City’s Growth Plan
Newcastle Mayor Robert Clark pushed to remove references to promoting racial and social equity as "vague," "subjective," and "irrelevant," and called climate change "subjective." Many of his recommendations were adopted by the Newcastle Planning Commission.
Will Washington Become One of the First States to Require Climate Action through Urban...
Seattle may be famous for its cool rainy weather, but it is a little known fact that the city also holds the dubious distinction...
We Can Rezone The Ave While Preserving Its Historic Character
Too often, our city has spent years delaying policy with infighting, time that we could spend on collaborative efforts to address our growing housing...
Sunday Video: Top 10 Cities Devoting Prime Land To Golf Courses
Golf courses take up a huge amount of land and resources to support an activity enjoyed by very few people. In some big cities,...