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.
Economists are trying to figure out the dissonance between a recovering economy and America's deep pessimism. They're looking in the wrong place.
From robotic kiosks to essential and safe Third Places, Seattle's Libraries chart a path to the future.
Recent election losses for Seattle Progressives overlap with generational change creating an introspective winter for local activism.
The 15-Minute City can't contain Buc-ee's, the Texas gas station powerhouse showing how clean, friendly convenience is done.
It's Thanksgiving and we have some stuff to be thankful for. Here's to the year's unexpected treats.
Metropolitan King County has 31 separate jurisdictions orbiting Seattle. Let’s cut that down by a lot.
Seattle's massive number of zones hide a couple very weird outliers. Or they would be outliers, if there weren't so many.
In the dark recesses of the municipal code, between definitions of Electric Vehicles and Entrance Ramps, Seattle’s zoning ordinance turns sexy. It lustily describes stimulation and arousal. It breathlessly talks of fondling and buttocks. Again and again it mentions “specified anatomical areas.”
This thirst trap is the definition of Entertainment...