Harrell Proposes Doubling Affordable Housing at Fort Lawton Site to Overcome Impasse
The move could be a jolt to a long-delayed plan for the decommissioned site, spreading infrastructure costs across more homes -- if the bid...
What’s the Most Important Acronym on Seattle Streets?
The Seattle ROWIM or Right Of Way Improvement Manual may be the most important acronym guiding the development of Seattle streets today.
How wide are sidewalks...
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,...
Choose Alternative 4 for the University District
Editor's Note: For a more in-depth primer on the University District Urban Design Framework, see our background article on the project.
This is a pivotal...
The Urbanist Podcast: Seattle City Budget Season 2022
In this week's episode, reporter Ray Dubicki is joined by The Urbanist's executive director Doug Trumm to discuss allocations and adjustments as Seattle's budget...
The Defund SPD Community Teach-In and the Layered Resistance to Change
Decriminalize Seattle and King County Equity Now are making a big ask. Their plan to reduce the Seattle Police Department budget is bound to...
Seattle Council Sets the Stage for a Potential Multiplex Boom
The Seattle City Council added a series of series of height and density bonuses for stacked flats as they amended Mayor Bruce Harrell's proposed update to the City's Comprehensive Plan in September. The bonuses could unleash the city's former single family zones to create a stacked flat multiplex boom, ranging up to 12-plexes.
Updated Seattle Growth Plan Adds Five Neighborhood Anchors, Bigger Fourplexes
An updated version of Seattle's 20-year growth plan includes additional opportunities for housing density, but mostly retains the city's longstanding pattern of walling off lower-density areas of the city.