Op-Ed: 10 Reasons Seattle Adding 30 Neighborhood Centers Is Smart Planning
Keeping all 30 proposed Neighborhood Centers is essential for a more affordable, sustainable, and thriving Seattle. If we chip away at Neighborhood Centers, we’ll be left with the same housing shortages, rising costs, and inequitable growth patterns we’ve seen for decades.
Sunday Video: An Urban Planner Plays SimCity
https://youtu.be/LUQaCoxybW8
In this extended short, Dave Amos of City Beautiful takes on the old school classic SimCity from the perspective of a professional planner 20...
Protesters Seize East Precinct and Gain Backing for Siphoning Off SPD Funding
After a desperate final stand Sunday night in which they again tear-gassed protesters (this time with Councilmember Kshama Sawant in the crowd), the Seattle...
City Council Rundown: Lake City Rezone, Renters Protected, Alley Vacated, And The Theodora Preserved
It was a packed agenda for the Seattle City Council yesterday with a range of land use and housing topics passing across the dais....
Mercer Island and Bellevue Squander Housing Opportunities Near East Link
Puget Sound has embarked on ambitious transit expansions. But the success of those largely hinge on people living near stations and stops, no matter...
Seattle Explores Transportation Impact Fees
Impact fees have been on the radar in Seattle for many years now. The city is the largest jurisdiction in the state to forego...
Comment on the Mayor’s Housing Affordability and Livability Agenda
Seattle Mayor Ed Murray has an initiative to establish policies and goals for housing affordability and livability within the city. The Mayor's initiative is...
Progressives like Scott, Sawant, Strauss, and Lewis are Winning the Housing Debate, Opponents Are...
We live in alternate realities. I realized this when I received a pro-Alex Pedersen mailer from People for Affordable Livable Seattle (PALS) political action...