Topical Vacations: Amazon’s Block 21
Last Monday, one of the first items that our brand new City Council voted on was a holdover matter from the previous council. This was...
Seattle Ranked As A Top LGBT-Friendly City
Seattle received a perfect score on the 2015 Municipal Equality Index (MEI) for the fourth consecutive year. The report, compiled by the Human Rights...
LRT vs BRT: West Seattle Needs A Full And Unbiased Analysis
Bus rapid transit (BRT) proponents argue that dense population and growth centers of West Seattle are too spread out to be effectively served by...
FAST Act Makes Slow Progress
The sausage has been made and the federal transportation bill has emerged from the conference committee with a treacly new name: Fixing America’s Surface...
The Face of Seattle Planning Will Change in 2016
The Seattle Department of Planning and Development (DPD) is earnestly preparing for significant departmental changes in the New Year. As we reported in June, the department...
This Year’s Budget and Next Year’s Plans for Housing Now
Two weeks ago, the Seattle City Council budget committee, consisting of all nine members, considered a budget request of critical importance to local housing....
Mixed Signals on the American Superhighway: Devolve, Evolve, or Prod Ahead?
Congress finally did something! It appears poised to pass a "six-year" transportation bill. In truth, the bill contains money for only three years and...
Toward Affordable Housing: Seattle Adopts A Commercial Linkage Fee
For more than a year, conversations have been ongoing about both the promise and pitfalls of Seattle's Housing Affordability and Livability Agenda (HALA) process. But in...