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Plans and Policy

Event Reminder: Seattle 2035 EIS Scoping and Comprehensive Plan Alternatives

As The Urbanist reported last week, the Department of Planning and Development (DPD) will be holding an open house and presentation on the city's update to...

Seattle 2035: EIS Scoping and Comprehensive Plan Alternatives

Editor's Note: In case you missed our previous coverage of Seattle 2035, check out DPD's Background Report, which covers the city's planning data from 1995-2012.   The Department of Planning...

Minimum Density Rules

Last summer, the national pharmacy chain CVS decided to enter the Seattle market, building new stores in Lower Queen Anne, Wallingford, and West Seattle....

Sunday Video: Creating Functional Streets for Livable Cities

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pX8zZdLw7cs Bicycle Culture by Design from TEDx Talks on YouTube. Mikael Colville-Andersen of Copenhagenize Design Co. gives us a brief history of our streets and suggests how we can...
Waterfront Seattle

Waterfront 2020: Specific, Delightful, and Peculiar

Specific. Delightful. Peculiar. That is the future of the waterfront, according to lead project designer James Corner. Updated waterfront redevelopment plans were unveiled last...

Compromising Won’t Help Get to $15 Now

  It’s the dog days of a Seattle winter, and tempers are growing short. The initial enthusiasm for a $15 an hour minimum wage remains...

East Link Open Houses

During the month of February, Sound Transit held two open houses about East Link Light Rail project. The first open house discussed the South...
Greenwood Single-Family Homes

Seattle Neighourhoods: Not Just for Single-Family Homes

Look around a residential neighbourhood in a typical American city, and you will see an ocean of single-family detached homes. There is a myth...