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Land Use

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Time to Immediately Sunset Houghton and East Bellevue Community Councils

As a Kirkland resident, I was shocked to learn just this spring that one neighborhood in my city has outsized influence over the entire...
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Mobile Home Park Protections to Preserve Up to 11 Acres for Affordable Housing in...

The Seattle City Council has passed another six month development moratorium for the city's two remaining mobile home parks. The legislation, which passed 7-0,...

Sunday Video: San Antonio’s River Walk As Walkable Urbanism

City Beautiful visits San Antonio to evaluate the city's river walk as walkable urbanism. The city's riverwalk isn't the only one of its kind,...

Interbay in Flux – Projects to Watch in 2022

Since the smaller of Seattle’s industrial areas is squeezed between three of the city’s richest neighborhoods, Interbay’s future is deeply uncertain. Development pressures are...

Snohomish County Contemplates Growth Scenarios Ranging from Urban Infill to Sprawl

Like many local governments, Snohomish County has kicked off their comprehensive planning process to meet a state-mandated deadline to update the county's 20-year growth...
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Telosa: What We Can Learn from Utopian Myths

As a child, I watched a documentary at school about Arcosanti, a utopian city in the desert founded on the idea that environmental sustainability...

Sunday Video: The Trains That Subsidize Suburbia

https://youtu.be/vxWjtpzCIfA Jason Slaughter of Not Just Bikes shows how Toronto's GO Transit commuter rail is primarily setup to subsidize the suburbs without providing real, regular...

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...