Dow Constantine Issues Executive Order: We Need Full Integration of Bus and Rail
Dow Constantine is on fire. The King County Executive, first elected in 2009, made the headlines on Tuesday for vetoing Councilmember Rod Dembowski's proposal...
Sound Transit Releases Preliminary Report on Ballard-UW-520 Rail
On June 5, Sound Transit released a preliminary report on the Central and East HCT (High Capacity Transit) Corridor Study. The report studies three...
Updates to the Pike/Pine Conservation Overlay District
John Feit, President of PPUNC, provided a brief overview of the Pike/Pine Conservation Overlay District. The overlay district deploys an incentive program to encourage building character...
What A Micro-Housing Stakeholder Group Can Achieve
Background
Micro-housing (often referred to as apodments) are small units, which are usually less than 300 square feet in size. They tend to be occupied...
Northgate Pedestrian Bridge Open House
Yesterday, the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) held an open house on a potential pedestrian bridge for Northgate. The bridge would serve residents on both...
Why Do We Write About Cities?
When we write about cities, sometimes we do best when we take the metrics away.
In 2011, amid a visit to San Francisco and just...
The Double-Edged Sword of Public Records – Housing and Jobs vs. the Public Right...
My Trusty Gavel by Brian Turner on Flickr.
The Problem
In the present information age, with access to details about virtually anyone’s life available to all,...
Pronto! Emerald City Cycle Share Revealed
We've been anticipating the launch for the Puget Sound Bike Share (PSBS) for quite some time now, and we still have a while to...