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Plans and Policy

Snohomish County Sets New 20-Year Community Growth Targets

Snotrac Coalition worries the plan won't put enough growth equitably near high-capacity transit. Snohomish County planning authorities have all but signed off on new growth...

Measuring Housing Need Compared to Job Growth

Trulia's blog provides another important contribution about housing costs. The most recent post includes the graph above. This graph reinforces the evidence that the price...
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Legislature Considers Cutting Highway Expansion Projects to Address Budget Woes

In choosing how to fill a $1 billion budget hole over the next two years, Washington State lawmakers are being forced to take a hard look at deferring or even cancelling some long-planned highway capacity projects.

Everett Transit Delivers A Painful Restructuring Plan; It Doesn’t Have To Be This Way

Everett Transit is in the midst of a painful service restructuring planning process. Fresh off its long-range planning effort to develop a path to...
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JumpStart Prevails, Court Dismisses Chamber Lawsuit

Corporations hoping to derail Seattle's JumpStart progressive payroll tax were thwarted in a court ruling released Friday. King County Superior Court Judge Mary Roberts ruled in...

Democrats Change Gears on Plan to Reduce Tolls on the Tacoma Narrows Bridge

In advance of the legislative session, Sen. Emily Randall (D-Bremerton), whose 26th Legislative District is located on the Kitsap Peninsula, introduced a remarkable bill....
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Elevate Cricket in Incoming Bellevue, Kirkland, and Seattle Parks Levies

Move aside pickleball, it's time to give another rapidly growing sport in the Puget Sound the limelight. “Cricket has seen an exponential growth in...

University District Urban Design Framework

For the past few years, the Department of Planning and Development (DPD) has been developing a design framework for the University District. The University...