Event Reminder: Broadway Streetcar Extension Open House
Tonight from 6pm to 8pm there will be an open house for the Broadway Streetcar extension at Lowell Elementary. This will be an opportunity...
Ambitious Training
Ambitious training--Sound Transit is doing just that and in spades. With the unfurling of the Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (DSEIS) last week, ST’s...
Dow Constantine Issues Executive Order: We Need Full Integration of Bus and Rail
Dow Constantine is on fire. The King County Executive, first elected in 2009, made the headlines on Tuesday for vetoing Councilmember Rod Dembowski's proposal...
Sound Transit Releases Preliminary Report on Ballard-UW-520 Rail
On June 5, Sound Transit released a preliminary report on the Central and East HCT (High Capacity Transit) Corridor Study. The report studies three...
Updates to the Pike/Pine Conservation Overlay District
John Feit, President of PPUNC, provided a brief overview of the Pike/Pine Conservation Overlay District. The overlay district deploys an incentive program to encourage building character...
What A Micro-Housing Stakeholder Group Can Achieve
Background
Micro-housing (often referred to as apodments) are small units, which are usually less than 300 square feet in size. They tend to be occupied...
Northgate Pedestrian Bridge Open House
Yesterday, the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) held an open house on a potential pedestrian bridge for Northgate. The bridge would serve residents on both...
Why Do We Write About Cities?
When we write about cities, sometimes we do best when we take the metrics away.
In 2011, amid a visit to San Francisco and just...