Seattle Risks Missing 2024 Comprehensive Plan Deadline with Continued Delays
The draft plan still isn't out, which is worrying housing advocates. But success is still within reach.
Last year, the City of Seattle had planned...
Washington Cities Push Back on More State Accountability Around Housing
A proposal that would shift the system of accountability around managing housing and job growth in Washington is already receiving strong pushback from local...
Seattle’s Housing Construction Booms While Permitting Flashes Warning Signs
Plummeting permits could point to a housing slowdown and less affordable housing money after a banner year.
Seattle’s housing production set a new record in...
Puget Sound Leaders Not Ready to Hit Brakes on Highway Expansion
Even in the face of ambitious greenhouse gas emissions goals that remain out-of-reach, elected leaders in central Puget Sound aren't ready to rethink the...
Op-Ed: The Seattle Police Department Has an Efficiency Problem
SPD’s refusal to offload low-priority calls is undermining its ability to solve serious crimes.
Over recent decades, the Seattle Police Department (SPD) has increasingly handled...
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...
Burgeoning Waterfront Redefines Vancouver, Washington
Ambitious development is taking Washington State’s most overlooked city from 'Vantucky' backwater to hip.
A few years ago an Urbanist reader approached me at a...
Puget Sound Leaders Debate a Pivot Away from Highway Expansion
A small change around regional grant funding criteria could prove a bellwether for transportation policy in Puget Sound.
Everywhere from Lynnwood to Puyallup, from Auburn...