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.
Seattle's Interstate 5 is in rough shape. Maintenance has been deferred so long that a full rebuild is likely necessary, as former Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) secretary Douglas MacDonald detailed in this article. Momentum is building to lid I-5 in Downtown Seattle to mitigate the impact of the freeway...
The Eastside is going to get a bicycle and pedestrian trail that will be the envy of the trail users throughout the region. Last Tuesday, the plan to build a Eastside Rail Corridor (ERC) trail took a step forward.
We were not there, well, because it was in Bellevue, but...
Opponents of Sound Transit 3 (ST3) love to say that Seattle doesn't get that many stations. To take a cue from Trump's debating style: Wrong! One skeptic, state senator Reuven Carlyle, gets six new stations and one expanded station in his district alone. All told ST3 would bring Seattle...
We analyzed the five maps the City of Seattle released last month: Aurora-Licton Springs, Capitol Hill, Crown Hill, Othello, and South Park. We also delved into the U District Rezone this week which will be one of the first rezones on the docket and have the most ambitious changes. Now...
Central District residents filed into Washington Hall auditorium on Monday to hear about four mixed-use projects and focus on maximizing the community's benefit from each. The event was named Imagine Africatown Update after the grassroots Africatown campaign that has emerged around Black empowerment in Seattle.
Thinking long-term, host K. Wyking...
Clark Design Group will seek early design guidance on a 51-unit project at 4035 Stone Way tonight (October 17th). Four of the units would be live/work and the first floor would include retail. The developer plans 31 below-grade parking stalls.
One of the issues that will come up—partially because it...
The Seattle City Council is expected to vote on the Seattle 2035 Comp Plan at its meeting 2pm Monday (October 17th).
We encourage urbanists to attend to express support for passing the Seattle 2035 Comprehensive Plan and get in a last word to encourage new ideas to include in this...
The Seattle Times found its latest source of Sound Transit-related outrage yesterday when the tabloid caught wind of markings activists had made around Seattle to advertise future light rail stations.
The dramatic Seattle Times headline read: "Sidewalk ‘future subway’ messages promote light rail. Free speech or ‘graffiti’?" Perhaps they hadn't realized the markings...