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.
It is spring of 8th Grade in the Dubicki household, so we have been investigating options on where to attend high schools. Seattle Public Schools offers schools in a home attendance area as well as option schools, allowing families to choose whether a school outside the neighborhood is a...
There is no spine. There is no Ballard to West Seattle extension. There is no one coming to save us.
By 2042, Seattle should have four Link light rail lines covering downtown and branching out to Redmond, Issaquah, Everett, and Tacoma. Though some opening dates are decades away, a lot...
On Saturday, the fences came down and the green space at the center of Ballard was reopened. Closed in December 2021 so the city could sweep a homeless encampment that persisted through the pandemic, the benches had been replaced, the skate bowl had been scrubbed, and the park had...
With St. Patrick's Day upon us, it is time to roll out the festivities, including the wearin' of the green, the drinkin' of the beer, and the watchin' of the best Simpsons episode. Besides the stereotypes, there is a significant reason the holiday has both extensive traction and a...
In this week's episode, co-hosts Natalie Argerious and Ray Dubicki are joined by conservation educators Hanae Bettencourt, Josh Morris, and Kate Lanier from Seattle Audubon. We get to talk about birds! The good news: it's fun to get into birding and Seattle's a great place to do it. Unfortunately,...
WALeg Wednesday on a Thursday follows the bills that got to swap chambers as the music goes on for some and others fail for the year.
In This Digest:
Important Bills At A Glance
Weekly Focus: What is a "Striker" amendment?
The winnowing continues as the deadline for legislation to escape its house...
This week we had the opportunity to host Governor Jay Inslee on The Urbanist podcast. It was good timing as we reached the midpoint of the state's 100-day legislative session. Several of the bills the governor has championed, such as legalizing missing middle housing statewide and adding a climate...
WALeg Wednesday Prepares for Floor Vote Frenzies and Small Improvements to Regulations.
In This Digest:
Important Bills At A Glance
Weekly Focus: Lot Splitting and Statewide ADUs
Another week in the Washington Legislature and another legislative calendar cutoff has passed. Bills that did not get out of their respective chamber's budget committee (Appropriations...