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....
Rainier Needs a Road Diet
(Image: Seattle Fire Department)It’s been a bad year for Rainier Avenue South. There are the usually numerous car crashes, sure, but that’s normal. The...
Everett’s 2035 Comprehensive Plan update is still uncharted
Everett is updating its comprehensive plan. The choices that the city makes will influence building patterns in the city and nearby areas for decades...
Save Seattle: Tax, License & Insure Pedestrians
Throughout the City of Seattle, residents are seeing their neighborhood streets besieged by free-loading, scofflaws, also known as pedestrians. The crux of the problem...
Broadway Streetcar Extension Curtailed to Roy Street
For the past few years, the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) has been working on a plan to extend the First Hill Streetcar northward. Terminus options...
Seattle/King County: 3rd Largest Homeless Population In 2013 HUD Report
(There’s a lot of data in the 2013 HUD report on homelessness. This is part 1 of The Urbanist’s series to better understand this data....
Looking Behind the Common Sense Elements of City Life
Introduction
Last month, in Moustiers Sainte Marie, France, I watched several shopkeepers return a lost young bird to a part of town closer to its natural...