How Seattle Might Regulate Short-Term Vacation Rentals
Short-term vacation rentals have become an increasingly prominent feature of the urban environment in Seattle. Just three years ago, there were only a couple hundred Airbnb...
Union Gospel Mission Reassures YROC Community As It Pulls Funding
Community pressure has saved the Youth Reach Out Center (YROC) in Othello from a cloud of uncertainity. On Tuesday, youth ministers at Othello's Youth...
Plan To Double The Seattle Housing Levy Chugs Ahead
On Monday, the Select Committee on the 2016 Seattle Housing Levy held a public hearing on doubling the housing levy and received very positive...
Danny Westneat Strikes Again: Misleading Property Tax Analysis Edition
Seattle Times columnist Danny Westneat--whom you may remember for leaking a draft of the Housing Affordability and Livability Agenda (HALA) committee report in 2014 and...
Op-Ed: Why I Am Proposing Short-Term Rental Regulation
Urbanists believe in the power of cities to bring people together, sparking social, cultural and economic innovation. Urbanists support dense, walkable and transit-friendly neighborhoods...
Sunday Video: The Innovative Way Ghent Removed Cars From The City
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Officials from Ghent talk about how their circulation plan helped transform the city to a higher walking and biking mode share in a very...
Seattle City Council Notes: A Safer SR-520, Roosevelt Gets a Park, and Enhanced Tenant...
At the top of the agenda on Monday, the City Council discussed a resolution (Resolution 31611) on the SR-520 highway rebuild from Montlake to...
Public Restrooms Are An Urban Necessity
Written by Seattle Councilmember Sally Bagshaw and Alberta Bleck, Community Relations Liaison to District 7.
One thing we share as residents of this city is...