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.
At the first public benefits hearing of the Washington State Convention Center (WSCC) Addition, Seattle Design Commissioners danced around a tough truth: planning good public spaces around freeway trenches is difficult.
A clear goal of the Community Package Coalition--a collective of nine community groups--is focused on improving bicycle and pedestrian connections on...
The first public hearing on the Downtown/South Lake Union Rezone is 6pm Monday (March 13th) at City Hall, and we encourage you to testify. Show up early to reserve a speaking slot. If you can’t attend, call or email your councilmembers.
Urbanists have been doing a better job of making their voices...
Supporters, colleagues and elected officials gathered at Seattle's Westin Hotel for Futurewise's Spring Breakfast Livable Community Awards on March 2nd. The awards lifted up six groups that have excelled in community-building to advance equity and environmental causes. The winners were Kittitas County, the City of Bellevue, Beacon Food Forest, Roosevelt Neighborhood Association,...
The Seattle Times Editorial Board (STEB) publishing bad transportation ideas is hardly a surprise, but, even for them, Sunday's editorial took their trolling and scapegoating to a whole 'nother level. A new art form may be blossoming right before our eyes. The STEB has an unique ability to work its favorite scapegoat targets--bike...
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 then stoking a single-family home preservationist backlash--has struck again, and this time he got smart.
Rather than make his appeal directly about the suffering of single-family homeowners--perhaps less than...
The City of Seattle announced its preferred route for the Burke-Gilman Trail's Missing Link at a Tuesday press conference at the Ballard Locks. Fortunately, the plan mostly sticks to the South Shilshole alternative that was the overwhelming favorite in public outreach with 90% support. Where the plan diverged from...
Legislators in Olympia are in a hurry to push through a flurry of bills before cutoff deadlines would make them dead. One of those bills is HB 1504, which would modify the state Growth Management Act (GMA) by carving out new special use provisions for "freight rail dependent uses" and...
Monday was quite the ordeal. Around 10am a propane truck got into a collision and rolled over blocking an interchange between I-90 and I-5 near Downtown. Propane being highly flammable, authorities had to shut down I-90 and I-5 in case the already heinous crash turned into a fireball. The propane in the truck had...