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.
Okay, we are quickly approaching the first 70-degree day in over six months, so it's time to start thinking about trees and transit and industrial rezoning. Here's your roundup of some wonderful meetups happening both online and on the Eastside, as well as a reminder that the city's ...
Two-for-one videos this weekend, starting with the time Not Just Bikes went to paradise and discovered it wasn't quite idyllic. About the size of Amsterdam, The Bahamas' main island of New Providence features sun, surf, and crippling traffic with a complete lack of public transportation. Come for the aerial...
Sometimes we feel a modicum of shame that we're not reading enough books. As the pile on the nightstand gets taller, the guilt grows. There's absolutely no reason for that to be the case. Many of us spend all day, every day reading something. Literally, you're reading this right...
In time for Earth Day, a beautiful new game that lets players unwind while unwinding civilization.
Terra Nil shows up on the App Store as “a reverse city builder.” Admittedly, I’m a little protective of my city builder games. Like, it would be weird to suggest a particular video game...
WALeg Wednesday considers the housing package that passed, led by HB 1110.
As the legislative calendar winds its way to adjourning sine die (until next year) on Saturday, it’s easy to focus on issues that were lost in the process or ideal bills that did not get out of the...
From the sublime (New Mexico) to the ugly charming (Maryland) there are excellent state flags in the United States. Washington's is not one of them. Although it stands out from the other "state seal on a bedsheet" flag designs by having a green background instead of blue, our flag...
Sometimes there is a concept that pops up out of the blue that sounds like solution to so many problems. Among housing advocates in recent months, that idea has been the builder's remedy.
The builder's remedy is a California law that allows developers to bypass local zoning when the jurisdiction...
With time ticking, a flurry of floor votes in Olympia advanced reforms of single-family zoning, accessory dwelling units (ADUs), and design review, leaving concurrence or conference committee as final hurdle.
In This Digest:
Important Bills At A Glance
Weekly Focus: So You've Passed Your Second Chamber! Now what?
Adjournment Sine Die -- the...