Sunday Video: The Swiss Do Wonders With Trains and It’s Not Just Because of...
In some circles, there is a belief that you have to have large populations to support high quality rail services. Switzerland shows that might...
Kenmore Moving Ahead With Comprehensive Plan and Missing Middle Housing Changes
Kenmore is moving forward with parts of its 2024 Comprehensive Plan update, which will look out to 2044. A suite of proposed policy changes...
Pierce County Nearing Final Allocation of 20-Year Growth Targets With Tacoma As Breadwinner
Pierce County is close to allocating its growth targets to local municipalities and unincorporated areas. In total, the county is supposed to accommodate 264,785...
Sunday Video: Top 10 Cities Devoting Prime Land To Golf Courses
Golf courses take up a huge amount of land and resources to support an activity enjoyed by very few people. In some big cities,...
Bellevue’s Parking Obsession is Climate Arson
During my research and writing of the Downtown Bellevue development articles, I actively estimated the amount of parking spaces that Bellevue had recently added...
Scope Out Bellevue’s Skyline of Tomorrow
Buried behind a storm of mammoth projects are yet more potential development proposals in Downtown Bellevue. While these projects don't possess the scale of...
Spokane Poised to Broadly Allow Missing Middle Housing
For years, West Coast cities have been facing a housing emergency, as chronic under-building of housing met massive demand, spurred by good jobs and the high...
Sunday Video: What’s Good and Bad About Portland Transit
Reece Martin on RM Transit discusses Portland's transit system, which has an expansive light rail and streetcar network. Martin show how Portland is doing...