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Land Use

10 Ways Northgate Mall Could Become ‘Downtown Northgate’

With the coming light rail expansion to Northgate in 2021, it's a good time to start talking about what things could be done to make...

Why the ‘finesse of the avenue’ is what cities need

Fourth in an illustrated series about place-decoding from the South of France. The Finesse of the Avenue Last month in Cassis, the Avenue Victor Hugo told the stories surrounding its...

A skyscraper city is on the horizon, but is its full potential being realized?

Seattle's building boom is in full swing, and a healthy part of this is in new skyscraper construction. Over 37 projects are soon to...

Linkage Fees are a supply-side solution: Or, how land owners end up paying for...

Linkage Fees, proposed fees on new development to pay for affordable housing, have a lot of critics. And the critics' arguments are probably all...

Tweet of the Week: All modes represented

Seattle Department of Transportation traffic engineer, Dongho Chang, was in San Francisco last week for a NACTO meeting. He's got some wonderful insights on streets in...

A woonerf on Eighth Avenue may soon be a reality

If all goes to plan, Seattle will soon have another woonerf making its way to a street near you. Vulcan lodged two related project...

Mayor Murray critiques Council’s microhousing legislation, threatens veto

Mayor Ed Murray sent a strong letter addressed to the Seattle City Council yesterday. In it, he dropped a big critique on Council's approach to...

PLUS Committee to create final microhousing legislation today

Image: Microhousing in Wallingford by Footprint. The long hard road to a new set of rules for microhousing may finally be coming to a conclusion....