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Plans and Policy

Minimum Density Rules

Last summer, the national pharmacy chain CVS decided to enter the Seattle market, building new stores in Lower Queen Anne, Wallingford, and West Seattle....

Sunday Video: Creating Functional Streets for Livable Cities

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pX8zZdLw7cs Bicycle Culture by Design from TEDx Talks on YouTube. Mikael Colville-Andersen of Copenhagenize Design Co. gives us a brief history of our streets and suggests how we can...
Waterfront Seattle

Waterfront 2020: Specific, Delightful, and Peculiar

Specific. Delightful. Peculiar. That is the future of the waterfront, according to lead project designer James Corner. Updated waterfront redevelopment plans were unveiled last...

Compromising Won’t Help Get to $15 Now

  It’s the dog days of a Seattle winter, and tempers are growing short. The initial enthusiasm for a $15 an hour minimum wage remains...

East Link Open Houses

During the month of February, Sound Transit held two open houses about East Link Light Rail project. The first open house discussed the South...
Greenwood Single-Family Homes

Seattle Neighourhoods: Not Just for Single-Family Homes

Look around a residential neighbourhood in a typical American city, and you will see an ocean of single-family detached homes. There is a myth...
Seattle Waterfront Concept Overlook Walk

Waterfront Week

Bertha may be dead in the water, but the Seattle Waterfront is moving full steam ahead. Construction work on the Elliott Bay Seawall is...
Pedestrian Retail Areas

Pedestrian Retail Areas

Great cities have active pedestrian-oriented retail areas, and Seattle has many. Could we use more? I think so, and Seattle Department of Planning and...