Doug Trumm
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.
First Hill dreams of a Link station went up in flames, but Sound Transit still owns a 21,600-square-foot lot at the northeast corner of Madison Street and Boylston Avenue that could benefit neighborhood. The First Hill Improvement Association is pushing Sound Transit to gift the site to non-profit housing...
Drop boxes and post offices stopped taking ballots by 8pm last Tuesday but votes are still trickling in--even as outcomes are decided. Cary Moon's share has been ticking up but she's far from pulling off the upset, as she sits 43.57% of the vote. It looks like the race...
The Seattle Office of Planning and Community Development (OPCD) released the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) document today. Mayor Tim Burgess officially released the FEIS at a noon event at Broadway Hill Park.
The final urban village maps with explanations of the decisions are viewable starting around page 113 of...
I've made the case for mayoral candidate Cary Moon before and our election board did too in our Primary and General Election endorsements. With ballots out and the November 7th deadline to get your ballot postmarked looming tomorrow, I thought I'd reiterate the case. Cary Moon isn't just an...
Every trick-or-treater is an urbanist on Halloween. Why leg it between spaced out suburban ramblers when you can find a street where the houses are built close together a hop, skip, and a jump from one another? Capitol Hill's Halloween block parties demonstrates this idea. The 16th, 17th, 18th,...
The City of Seattle should leverage the Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU) environmental impact statement (EIS) to begin planning for broader changes outside Seattle’s urban villages. As long as we are taking the better part of a year to study parking and tree canopy, we should craft the EIS study...
I don’t know if you heard, but urbanists are developer shills. At least that’s the common conception. In reality, many of us are quite critical of certain developers and projects, while recognizing that absolute opposition to developers would get us nowhere. If developers are evil, they’re a necessary evil--at...
Awhile back I wrote about adding a RapidRide E rail line that continues to First Hill to Seattle Subway's Vision Map, and the idea caught fire a bit. Seattle Subway proposed that by using rubber-tired metro technology, the project--which they dubbed the Magenta Line--could qualify to use the City Transportation...