Yearly Archives: 2024

A new consultant report on the long-planned streetcar shows costs up 43% with several new project elements now assumed necessary. Connecting Seattle's two existing streetcar...

Misunderstanding the size of an acre, floor area ratio, and the area of a circle ruins many conversations about the basic shape of where you live.

Climate change and global warming must join safety, homelessness, and housing at the top of the City’s agenda.   In the first Seattle City Council...

Transit conveys culture as its conveys passengers. The former Russian capital provides some lessons on how the Seattle region could do better. Seattle has begun...

The Seattle Police Officers Guild (SPOG) collective bargaining agreement has languished for three full years since its expiration at the end of 2020. That...

The draft plan still isn't out, which is worrying housing advocates. But success is still within reach. Last year, the City of Seattle had planned...

A proposal that would shift the system of accountability around managing housing and job growth in Washington is already receiving strong pushback from local...

Plummeting permits could point to a housing slowdown and less affordable housing money after a banner year. Seattle’s housing production set a new record in...