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Plans and Policy

Sunday Video: Rethinking How To Measure Cities

The Urbanist does a lot of work with the data of cities. From tunnel budgets to climate impacts to new developments, there's numbers all...
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Op-Ed: Seattle is the Capital of Toxic Frugality

Next week is standardized testing at the kiddos’ school. The normal seven-class-a-day schedule will be reorganized to allow morning and afternoon blocks long enough...
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Pending Low-Income Tax Credit Expiration Could Cost 2,000 Affordable Homes

More than 2,000 units of affordable housing in King County alone could stop being affordable by the end of the decade because of the...
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Legislature Abandons Most Traffic Safety Bills As Fatalities Continue To Mount

In late January, a group of lawmakers from both the Washington House and Senate, Democrats and Republicans, joined Governor Jay Inslee in a legislative...
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Lake Washington Blvd Taskforce Comes to Impasse on Future of Parkway

For over 50 years, Lake Washington Boulevard between Mount Baker Beach and Seward Park has been the site of Seattle's oldest open streets festival,...

Four Vital Housing and Climate Bills Survive the Washington Legislature

WALeg Wednesday considers the housing package that passed, led by HB 1110.  As the legislative calendar winds its way to adjourning sine die (until next...

Policymakers Shift Attention to Addressing Vehicle Residents’ Needs

When Neal Lampi, longtime Real Change vendor and former staff member, was living in his vehicle, moving among spots ranging from industrial areas of...
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As Development Slows, Seattle Eyes Transportation Impact Fee Projects

The Seattle City Council is closer than ever to tapping a new source of revenue for transportation projects, with councilmembers from opposite sides of...