Shaun Kuo
Shaun Kuo is a junior editor at The Urbanist and a recent graduate from the UW Tacoma Master of Arts in Community Planning. He is a urban planner at the Puget Sound Regional Council and a Seattle native that has lived in Wallingford, Northgate, and Lake Forest Park. He enjoys exploring the city by bus and foot.
On Monday, Seattle Parks and Recreation (Parks, for short) released a preliminary site plan for the new Green Lake Community Center as part of the third open house for the redevelopment project. The Urbanist covered the past two open houses, when they were narrowing down site selection and site...
On Friday, Publicola reported on King County Council's Thursday shelving of Councilmember Rod Dembowski's budget proposal to keep 47,000 annual service hours from Route 41 inside his district with the threat of withholding funding. Dembowski represents the eastern half of North Seattle and the North King County suburbs. With...
On October 20th, the Seattle Department of Transportation released the WSP-conducted Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) for the West Seattle High-Rise Bridge Safety Project, and a reader's guide to the CBA on their blog. The next day, SDOT presented their CBA to the Community Task Force after an introduction on the...
Nearly seven months into the West Seattle Bridge closure, the City is finally closing in on a decision to replace or repair the bridge. An announcement is planned for the week after the Community Task Force's October 21st meeting. That actual date of an announcement has proven evasive though,...
On October 12th, Sound Transit began their online open house for the 130th Street light rail station's design. Approved by voters in 2016, this station will eventually join the Lynnwood Link expansion stations and 145th station to bring light rail to North Seattle. As the name suggests, the station...
In September, the City of Seattle released the Internet for All Seattle Report. This report follows the City's July 27th resolution to establish the city council's goal to implement a "vision of enabling all Seattle residents to access and adopt broadband internet service that is reliable and affordable."
The City...
In 2014 and 2017, the Washington Geological Survey was awarded grants by the Department of Energy to prospect and validate geothermal resources throughout the State of Washington. Washington's Department of Natural Resources (DNR) produced a geothermal favorability map using modeling techniques.
In Washington state, the Cascade mountain range is of...
On Wednesday, Lime launched their first 500 shareable e-scooters in Seattle to accompany their relaunch of around 500 bikes in June. This launch is a part of Seattle's scootershare pilot program, which was greenlit by the city council last week.
The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) also selected Wheels...