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.
The Seattle City Council passed a Rainier Beach Neighborhood Plan Update, among many other things at a busy September 26th meeting. The plan focuses on growing the community in a way that respects Rainier Beach's diversity, meets its pressing needs, and promotes safer streets and healthier people.
With the loss...
Link light rail set a new record for ridership surpassing 100,000 boardings for the first time last Friday. Sound Transit credited the convergence of a Mariners game (with playoff implications) and a Huskies college football game against 15th ranked Stanford for boosting the numbers.
Just outside Husky Stadium, UW Station...
At a site next to The Seattle Times' headquarters a 41-story tower at 121 Boren Ave N could rise bringing 436 apartments to market if its proposal gets approved tonight at its design review meeting. The project includes 1,800 square feet of retail at ground level and 244 parking stalls...
We've been arguing for taller development outside of Downtown for a while; unfortunately, the City has added no high-rise zones in preliminary Mandatory Housing Affordability (MHA) maps released so far, except in the earlier draft University District rezone map. It's also added no mid-rise zones generous enough to actually draw...
A three-year process to adopt subarea plans around two future light rail stations in Shoreline has come to an end. On Monday, the Shoreline City Council met to decide the fate of blocks surrounding the future 145th Street Station, which arrives in 2023. The adopted zoning map is remarkably...
Yesterday the White House released a document called the "Housing Development Toolkit" that stirred major excitement among housing advocates and Yes In My Backyard (YIMBY) crowd. President Obama is proposing $300 million dollars in his 2017 Housing and Urban Development (HUD) budget for "Local Housing Policy Grants to help facilitate...
The Northeast Design Review Board is about to take a look at a proposal at 3825 Bridge Way N that aims to be the first multifamily building to qualify for Seattle's about-to-be-updated Living Building Pilot standard. Meeting the Living Building standard would allow the project additional height and floor...
Sound Transit's long-awaited Angle Lake Station opened this past weekend to much fanfare. The station is Sound Transit's first extension south of SeaTac Airport. Originally planned as part of a larger extension south to Federal Way (Star Lake), the station opened four years early thanks to federal TIGER grants...