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.
Tomorrow is the big day for Trick or Treating! So it's time to roll out some classic Halloween safety videos. Come for the scratchy 8mm recording quality, and stay for the plastic masks that tear into the fleshy parts of your cheeks. Much more satisfying than dropping a $9.99...
To be honest, it’s a little difficult to decide whether this is a food review, a hockey game report, or a look at the ongoing issues at Seattle's new arena. Bear with me, it was a fun, if difficult, hockey game. There was some testing of the batch cocktails.
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With only 13 days to go before the General Election, ballots are officially in the hands of Washington voters. This is your reminder that your ballot is sitting on the kitchen counter. Find it. Fill it out. Mail it in or drop it off by November 8. Here are...
Organized by what you already have on hand.
It's been weeks since we began celebrating Halloween. The Danny Elfman music, the pumpkin spice, and the rejection of sun all promptly started after Labor Day. But with all this business about smoke and city budgets, we never really got around to...
With drone footage showing construction beginning on Saudi Arabia's half-trillion dollar megaproject called The Line, it's useful to ask what's going on in the desert. Stretching over 100 miles inland from the Red Sea, the mirrored, car-less, low-carbon project begs whether the repressive regime is greenwashing its image. Tomorrow's...
A journey into the city’s soft gates and silos.
Here's an interesting fact: Seattle has fewer 24/7 public restrooms than it does publicly financed stadiums.
That doesn’t sound right. After all, there are only two stadiums and an arena in Seattle. And we have at least that many bathrooms open all...
Weekend construction will delay or reroute several busy transit lines including a Link light rail service interruption that will last into next week. Ongoing projects in spots across town will change bus schedules. Here is your list for the weekend.
Highway construction by the various departments of transportation seems to...
The Urbanist Elections Committee has released it endorsements for the 2022 general election. In this episode, reporter Ray Dubicki talks with two members of the Elections Committee. Hannah Sabio-Howell and Rian Watt join the podcast to walk us through the process of developing the candidate questionnaire and surviving some...