Café Streets: From Pandemic Response to Permanent Program
The Seattle City Council is considering a bill to extend cafe street and outdoor dining permits until January 2023. The popular program arose during...
Urban Life in the Metaverse: Potential for Utopia or Wholly Unnecessary?
South Korea’s capital city of Seoul recently unveiled plans to become the first major city government with a solid foothold in the metaverse. Both a result...
Explainer: What’s an Environmental Impact Statement?
An Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) sounds like a highly technical and complex mechanism of governance. They take years, spiral into hundreds of pages with...
Call to Action: Speak Up For Housing Benefit Districts
On a day-to-day basis, we are confronted with a million different challenges: maybe you dropped your coffee on the carpet, maybe you just cannot...
South Park Joins Growing Movement to Dismantle Freeways
From a bird’s eye view, Seattle’s South Park neighborhood is cut in half by SR-99, divided diagonally from one end to another. The highway,...
A Conversation on Manufacturing in Cities with “Recast Your City” Author Ilana Preuss
Recast Your City is subtitled “How to save your downtown with small-scale manufacturing,” which gives the impression that it’s a one trick book. But...
Snohomish County Sets New 20-Year Community Growth Targets
Snotrac Coalition worries the plan won't put enough growth equitably near high-capacity transit.
Snohomish County planning authorities have all but signed off on new growth...
Seattle’s Crown Hill Action Plan Centers Walkability and Community
In November, Seattle's Office of Planning and Community Development (OPCD) released their draft Crown Hill Urban Action Plan. The scope of this plan is...