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.
Here’s the interesting thing about knocking on doors for a political candidate. In many ways, it’s ridiculous that such old school politicking is necessary in this information soaked era. Really, if the pipelines that deliver news to our pockets were doing their job, we wouldn’t need every campaign to...
Foss Maritime closed its ship repair facility this week. Located on the Ship Canal at the north end of Interbay, the yard provided dry dock maintenance to the company’s tugs and marine transportation vessels in Puget Sound.
The company, founded in Tacoma in 1889 by Thea Foss and later expanded...
(And four things we don’t)
Now that the dust has subsided on construction and the glitter has settled on the opening night festivities, let’s get down to the brass tacks. Seattle has a brand new arena for a brand new hockey team, the Kraken. Here's a close look at what...
Recently, I got called out in a discussion where I labeled something a “bad faith” argument. We were talking about the last Seattle City Council election between Dan Strauss and Heidi Wills for District 6. I said one reason it was wholly appropriate Wills lost because she made a...
(From a certain point of view)
The Urban Land Institute, the world's largest network of real estate and land use experts, held its fall meeting in Chicago this week. Many attendees participated for their first in-person conference in two years. The group’s updated mission -- to shape the future of...
One year into master plan and environmental review, the real activity is among volunteers offering a new direction for the Talaris site in Northeast Seattle.
No progress has been made on permits or environmental review in the year since Seattle’s Department of Construction and Inspections held its last public comment...
Parallel to Governor Inslee’s housing stability bridge program and Mayor Durkan’s extension of Seattle’s eviction moratorium, the Seattle City Council passed a series of protections for renters. Among them is an ordinance that allows tenants to avoid eviction due to pandemic related hardship.
The actual provision will be in the...
City Council Land Use Committee votes to exempt proposed Interbay site from zoning rules.
On Friday, the Land Use and Neighborhoods Committee of the Seattle City Council passed an ordinance that will pave the way for a new Seattle Storm training facility. The mechanism allowing the new gym lifts the...