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.
In this episode, co-hosts Natalie Argerious and Ray Dubicki welcome Ron Davis to talk about a proposed JumpStart Tax Holiday in the city of Seattle. Ron last joined the pod to talk about how the city's comprehensive planning was lacking a level of seriousness. There is a tax holiday...
WALeg Wednesday considers bill shrinkage and more legislative budget proposals fill in the state financial picture.
In This Digest:
Striker Amendments Threaten 75% to 94% of TOD
Important Bills At A Glance
Weekly Focus: Washington’s Operating Budget Starts to Take Shape
Striker amendments threaten 75% to 94% of potential TOD.
Several striker amendments were introduced...
Now that the Vernal Equinox has passed, thoughts here at The Urbanist turn to thinner socks with our Birkenstocks and other rites of spring. We have four wonderful events scheduled for the next few weeks, one in-person and three virtual. Hope you will join us!
March 28, 2023 6pm to...
It is simultaneously exciting and trying times for transit in Seattle. Over the next few years, dozens of new stops will open in Bellevue, Lynnwood, and Federal Way. At the same time, future extensions are facing dual headwinds of being overly complex and lightly understood, even by elected officials...
How to watch and comment at today's system expansion discussion.
After a lot of discussion and plenty of competing visions, it is time to hear what the Sound Transit Board of Directors is going to do about extending light rail to Ballard and West Seattle. Late arriving proposals, public backlash,...
Any frequent reader of The Urbanist knows that we have a long and painstakingly catalogued list of gripes with Seattle. From the completely avoidable pedestrian carnage to the collapsing school district to today’s pivotal light rail vote, it’s hard to watch a city we love do such dumb stuff....
WALeg Wednesday starts eyeing up the looming disagreements as the legislative session moves to finances.
In This Digest:
Important Bills At A Glance
Weekly Focus: A First Look at Washington's Budget
Five of the bills that we have been following continue moving forward, with a few making their committee debuts in after switching...
RMTransit returns to Seattle to talk about our light rail expansion and our potential to screw it up. Specifically, there is the imminent possibility that Sound Transit will choose to abandon a transfer point at Union Station and Chinatown. As they stated in the video, "The new city center...