Planning A New Portage Bay Park in the University District
The University District is slated to get an expanded park space on the shores of Portage Bay in the coming years. The project, tentatively...
Op-Ed: Cascadia’s Awakening — Building a Region That Works for All
Washington State has big housing plans and ambitious planning tools, but it needs binding commitments across public, private, and social sectors to turn vision into reality. As it stands, housing isn't being built fast enough to stem the affordability crisis.
We Need More Chairs
An accidental game of musical chairs at a packed community meeting on the Comprehensive Plan provided a microcosm for Seattle's housing crisis.
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It’s Time: Pike/Pine Protected Bike Lanes Will Transform Seattle’s Bike Network
Seattle's approach to building bicycle infrastructure often has the appearance of an earnest toddler desperately throwing spaghetti against the wall. That spaghetti isn't nothing--the...
Imagining a Car-Free Zone in Bellevue: Two Proposals
In most communities in America, cars, trucks and streets dominate the environment where people live. Heavy traffic and aggressive drivers make many roads smelly, noisy,...
Climate Leaders Are Hammering Out the Details of Seattle’s Green New Deal
"We're on the right side of history, the Green New Deal," sang the Seattle Raging Grannies during public comment at the beginning of yesterday's...
The Chamber of Commerce’s Seattle Budget Fix Is Slashing City Services and Freezing Wages
While running government like a business is a dream of chambers of commerce, businesses don’t freeze wages and spending when they need to hire...
Moore Leads Housing Backlash in Seattle Council’s First Comprehensive Plan Meeting
As the Seattle City Council took its first look at Mayor Bruce Harrell's One Seattle Comprehensive Plan on Monday, Cathy Moore delivered a slow-growth manifesto, tinged with derision for renters, who she portrayed an unengaged and a detriment to neighborhoods.