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Land Use

Top Urbanist Action: Improve The Roosevelt RapidRide

If you do one thing this week, it should be: Give SDOT A Comment About The Roosevelt RapidRide: This line is one of seven...

University District Study Suggests Strategies to Sustain Small Businesses

A new study on the vulnerability of small businesses in the University District has been released. Peter Steinbrueck (a former member of the Seattle...

Short-Term Rental Regulations Take Shape Ahead of Big Vote

A final regulatory bill for short-term vacation rentals in Seattle may be passed by end of year ending a two-year process of policy formulation....

Issaquah Updates Its Central District Visions

As the part of the Central Issaquah development moratorium, the city is refreshing the district visions established in the original Central Issaquah Plan (CIP)...

Seoul’s Lessons for Seattle Transit and Land Use

 In 1960, just several years after the devastation of the Korean War and with 35 years of armed Japanese occupation in the recent past,...

Capitol Hill’s Design Guidelines to Get an Update

Earlier this month, the Office of Planning and Community Development (OPCD) in conjunction with the Seattle Department of Construction and Inspections (SDCI) held an...

Envisioning an I-5 Lid in the U District

Lid I-5 hosted a charrette on September 16th dedicated to sketching out a design for a freeway lid on the stretch of Interstate 5...

Sunday Video: 7 Principles for Building Better Cities

Peter Calthorpe breaks down some scenarios for growth using as examples California and Chongqing, China in this TED talk from April. Calthorpe argues sprawl...