City Beautiful’s urbanism content creator, Dave Amos, recently visited the Seattle area to explore future transit-oriented development sites and the planning that is going into them. Featured in the video are future station areas like Interbay and Kent-Des Moines as well as a potential second Pioneer Square station predicated on redevelopment of King County-owned properties. Amos discusses the pros and cons of light rail planning decisions that the region has made. He then links that to Mayor Bruce Harrell’s One Seattle Comprehensive Plan and efforts to upzone to boost housing in transit rich areas.
P.S. Thanks Dave for the shoutout and donation plug at the end! We’re glad he found our coverage helpful in making this video!
Doug Trumm is publisher of The Urbanist. An Urbanist writer since 2015, he dreams of pedestrian streets, bus lanes, and a mass-timber building spree to end our housing crisis. He graduated from the Evans School of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Washington in 2019. He lives in Seattle's Fremont neighborhood and loves to explore the city by foot and by bike.