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 Northeast Design Review Board will hold the first recommendation meeting tonight for a 6-story 70-apartment building the Low Income Housing Institute (LIHI) plans to build in Lake City. The project will include a preschool, daycare center, and nine parking stalls. Apartments would serve tenants at a range of...
The Seattle City Council's Human Services and Public Health Committee held a special meeting yesterday (video) to consider legislation to make treatment of the homeless more humane by further regulating "sweeps" of encampments on public property. The City Council seems to be making progress in reforming the "sweep" protocols,...
Block The Bunker activists celebrated after Mayor Ed Murray backed down and put the $149 million North Precinct police building on hold. But they quickly turned their sights on their next foe: a $210 million youth jail planned for the Central District. Protesters railed against the youth jail repeatedly...
Here is the extended version of the one-minute public comment I delivered about 30 minutes into the Planning, Land Use, and Zoning (PLUZ) committee (video) at Council Chambers this morning regarding the pending U District Urban Design plan. More background on the meeting is here.
I support the proposed rezone...
At 9:30am Tuesday morning, the Planning, Land Use, and Zoning (PLUZ) Committee will open its meeting with public comment and conclude with the first major informational briefing on the final University District land use proposal. The Committee will also discuss and vote on possible amendments to the City's major...
Tonight at 8pm the Northwest Design Review Board will consider the latest plan for a 74-unit residential building at N 88th St and Nesbit Ave and perhaps secure the board's blessing to move forward. This is the second recommendation meeting, meaning the board opted not to recommend in the...
At Thursday's Planning, Land Use, and Zoning (PLUZ) Committee, dozens of residents commented on the Seattle 2035 Comprehensive Plan and the amendments being considered. Some commenters called on the City to slow down the process, seeming to hope to delay zoning changes. Others encouraged the City to speed up...
Yesterday morning, I attended a Seattle Design Commission meeting on the parking design of the North Precinct building. By the evening, Mayor Ed Murray announced he would shelve the project at least until the next budget cycle and the results of the Racial Equity Toolkit (RET) analysis.
https://twitter.com/MayorEdMurray/status/776599848124428292
Mayor Murray said...