City Council Continues MHA-R Deliberations, Entertains 11 Amendments To Legislation
If you've been following Seattle's Mandatory Housing Affordability process since the beginning, then you know that, so far, the City has adopted a framework for...
Seattle Council Sharply Divided Over Allowing Housing in Stadium District
With housing advocates and the Port of Seattle divided on the issue of allowing housing near Seattle's sports stadiums, councilmembers are being forced to pick sides, after Sara Nelson reintroduced the proposal earlier this month.
Seattle Transportation Plan Project List Suggests Roadmap for Levy Renewal
The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) has released a draft project list intended to go along with its mammoth Seattle Transportation Plan, still in...
Linkage Fees are a supply-side solution: Or, how land owners end up paying for...
Linkage Fees, proposed fees on new development to pay for affordable housing, have a lot of critics. And the critics' arguments are probably all...
Seattle Transportation Plan Shows an Ambitious Vision, But the Hard Part Comes Next
In 1972, the City of Seattle asked a group of citizens, anyone who wanted to attend a series of meetings, to work together to...
Break Down the Seattle City Budget with The Urbanist on October 30
The leaves are turning, Halloween is approaching... that can only mean one thing in Seattle city government: Budget season is here -- a time...
Urban Planning’s Three Basic Errors
A good amount of the work that we do here at The Urbanist involves pointing out where the region's governance and foresight are lacking....
Market Street Developments Are Creating A New Urban Neighborhood East of Ballard
There’s a spot just inside Seattle's Gilman Park where the scent of turned earth and new asphalt mingles with that of cooking grains coming...