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Rainier Beach Updates Its Neighborhood Plan

The Seattle City Council passed a Rainier Beach Neighborhood Plan Update, among many other things at a busy September 26th meeting. The plan focuses...

Sunday Video: Design For Good

AIGA Seattle is hosting their housing for homelessness installation in Occidental Park today as part of the Seattle Design Festival. In this video, they...

DRA Drops Appeal Against MHA Program For Affordable Housing

The Downtown Residents Alliance (DRA) is dropping its appeal of Seattle’s Mandatory Housing Affordability program, which will pave the way for rezones in Downtown...

Sound Transit Green Lights Capitol Hill Station TOD

Capitol Hill, a neighborhood awash with transit-oriented development, is poised to get a lot more right where it is needed. At a meeting last week,...

Council To Adopt Mandatory Housing Affordability Residential Program

The Seattle City Council is poised to pass a landmark housing and land use policy today that will complete a two-pronged framework centered on delivering...

City Council Rundown: Lake City Rezone, Renters Protected, Alley Vacated, And The Theodora Preserved

It was a packed agenda for the Seattle City Council yesterday with a range of land use and housing topics passing across the dais....

Why I’m An Urbanist

When I was four years old, I wrote a letter to Mother Nature. Signed, sealed, and delivered to the boulder in our suburban front...

City Council Continues MHA-R Deliberations, Entertains 11 Amendments To Legislation

If you've been following Seattle's Mandatory Housing Affordability process since the beginning, then you know that, so far, the City has adopted a framework for...