Tweet of the Week: All modes represented
Seattle Department of Transportation traffic engineer, Dongho Chang, was in San Francisco last week for a NACTO meeting. He's got some wonderful insights on streets in...
A woonerf on Eighth Avenue may soon be a reality
If all goes to plan, Seattle will soon have another woonerf making its way to a street near you. Vulcan lodged two related project...
Mayor Murray critiques Council’s microhousing legislation, threatens veto
Mayor Ed Murray sent a strong letter addressed to the Seattle City Council yesterday. In it, he dropped a big critique on Council's approach to...
PLUS Committee to create final microhousing legislation today
Image: Microhousing in Wallingford by Footprint.
The long hard road to a new set of rules for microhousing may finally be coming to a conclusion....
Everett’s 2035 Comprehensive Plan update is still uncharted
Everett is updating its comprehensive plan. The choices that the city makes will influence building patterns in the city and nearby areas for decades...
Developer Fail: More Parking Than Apartment Units Isn’t TOD
When Link opened in 2009, it was expected to be a catalyst for transit-oriented development (TOD) in the Rainier Valley: MLK Way is littered...
Looking Behind the Common Sense Elements of City Life
Introduction
Last month, in Moustiers Sainte Marie, France, I watched several shopkeepers return a lost young bird to a part of town closer to its natural...
Aufstockung: Innovative Density
Aufstockung is a German term for a vertical addition. That is, an increase in height by the addition of one or more floors to...