Ray Dubicki
Ray Dubicki is a stay-at-home dad and parent-on-call for taking care of general school and neighborhood tasks around Ballard. This lets him see how urbanism works (or doesn’t) during the hours most people are locked in their office. He is an attorney and urbanist by training, with soup-to-nuts planning experience from code enforcement to university development to writing zoning ordinances. He enjoys using PowerPoint, but only because it’s no longer a weekly obligation.
We are all fighting Heaven now. Ray Dubicki reviews the show Hazbin Hotel and bids farewell in his final column.
Ray Dubicki reviews the City Council vacancy "process" as an unselected applicant.
Misunderstanding the size of an acre, floor area ratio, and the area of a circle ruins many conversations about the basic shape of where you live.
Seattle’s big hockey Winter Classic success at the ballpark offers lessons to nightly sports on the other side of town.
We've all had a busy year. Really, there were four elections. Sure, that's a regular occurrence in Seattle, but it's still a lot. So, with one last look back, let's say goodbye to the year that was by clearing the table on readings we coulda, shoulda, didn't get to....
Some of the best images, illustrations and photo essays of 2023 in The Urbanist.
The annual visit of the Krampus, bringing G.O.R.E. for the coming year. That is Goals to do, Obstacles to avoid, Resolutions to try better, and places to Explore.
Journalistic integrity demands we review the tapes for the last year, and own up to our failings. Here are the corrections and regrets for 2023.