It’s Easy to Gouge Your Tenants in Seattle, Mercer Mega Block RFP Promises
While housing advocates have been calling for social housing on the City-owned Mercer Mega Block site and other publicly-held land, the Durkan administration is...
City Council Sells Wallingford Site to Dunn Lumber and Weighs UW Campus Plan Amendments
On Monday, the Seattle City Council approved disposition and sale of a City-owned brickyard (3819 4th Ave NE) next to Dunn Lumber in Wallingford....
Frelingford’s Stone Way Corridor Continues Building Boom
Stone Way and the surrounding Fremont and Wallingford blocks continue to be a focal point of new construction. In 2015, I predicted this neighborhood,...
SDCI Delivers Vacant Building Monitoring Report
A year after the city adopted new vacant building maintenance and demolition laws, the city council received a monitoring report and briefing on the...
Council Appears Poised to Act on Tree Canopy Protections
Seattle hopes to tackle the loss of tree canopy through new regulations, which is gradually falling according to recent data. In late August, a...
In Praise of Dumb Boxes
One of the more, ummm, interesting complaints about new buildings is that they are "too boxy"--as if their form is somehow foreign and boxy...
Wonkabout Washington: Pierce County Doubles Protected Farmland, Next Steps on Sound Transit’s Paid Parking
Submit your nominations for the Futurewise Livable Community Awards!
Each year, Futurewise honors community leaders in five categories (Local Government Excellence, Equity and Environment, Protecting...
Urban Village Boundary Contractions? No Thanks.
In my Sightline piece from May, I described how homeowners in Wallingford have worked for decades to block housing via downzones, increasing development burdens, and...