I believe it was Portland’s own Joe Cortright who did a study about how more driving is a net loss for most local economies because cars and gas have to be imported. Reducing gas consumption is basically a form of economic development.

Yes. There is a new plan set. But you have to ask them for it.

The project, along with the adjacent dead project, sold to an affordable housing developer. It’s moving forward now as a much bigger project. Not sure if it has funding, but they have been pushing the permits forward.

For what it’s worth, Seattle City Light is one of the worst agencies to deal with. We have a special consultant just for them. They are painfully slow, have big standards for everything (big doors, big vaults, big everything) and don’t care about anything except what they need.

1000x this. I worry about cars hitting my kids more than I worry about every other danger combined.

And if we had a question we would just sit and discuss it until we all agreed that Armenia is in a city in South America. Or the that the civil war ended in 1903. Who could know?

But we did have less existential dread about AI the apocalypse.

So what you’re saying is that younger you and you writing skills are basically responsible for our modern light rail system? Good work baby Qaggy.

The more I read about AI the more I miss the 90’s.

Such a missed opportunity that has now passed us by. Now we just have to take the space from car lanes instead.

I think @gordonofseattle.bsky.social and SNG was pushing for the city to at least require wider sidewalks before all the development started. This in no ways feels like a place people are supposed to walk.

A new multifamily building fronting Rainier Ave.

Nothing says Urban Village like 8 stories of building, 6’ of sidewalk, 4’ of plantings, and 6 lanes of Rainier.

Is that from the viaduct? So we can all recall roundly the hulking monstrosity that cut us off from the waterfront for decades?

Nostalgia is a hell of a drug.

Apartments and townhouses are different beast often with different, developers. Some folks like THs and to get in a get out quickly with little hassle. Some like to build apts and either sell a whole building or run it. And right now the market and financing for THs is probably better than apts.

It seems like the best way to make them cheap is to be able to tap into the existing international market. TK and Kone are both Euro and have a huge chunk of the market. What not get some others to sell here.

Any chance that amendment get stripped out at some point later in the process? It seems like the crux of the bill.

A bike parked at a bespoke pioneer square bike rack

So this must be the yea olde bespoke bike rack for Pioneer Square. It really ties the neighborhood together. A modern bike rack would have broken the 1900’s illusion (along with cars, cell phones, stadiums, and the fact I didn’t park a penny farthing.)

Bald eagles eating trash in Anchorage

I think this one is more appropriate these days. There is nothing noble, regal, or majestic my government is doing. Stay strong Canada.

New large houses replacing forest

New waterfront mansion

Rode around Bainbridge Island today. While they have all sort of concerns about walkable and affordable housing, they are not worried about new waterfront mansions or giant houses replacing forest. In both the later cases every trip will be by car.

I’m all for getting rid of them, or paring them down. I just know what’s going to happen when someone tries it.

I was on the bike board and wondered what the cost was. Multiple staff members, a few consultants, required public notice, council approval process, training. It all adds up.

Every commission has fans and anyone who goes after them will be painted as a monster. You want to abolish the Green New Deal Oversight Board or the Immigrants and Refugees Commission? The Bike or Ped Board? And half of what council does is appoint board members? What would they do with the time?

Does anywhere in the world have a wealth tax?

We’re doomed if this is the map. And I wouldn’t doubt if it is. Time to get those blue states growing again!

It is not formal, but you need approval and the city will always want to see chutes and compactors on larger buildings. And with the rules in place at a certain size you can’t approval to do anything other than roll off compactors and chutes or managed waste rooms, which owners don’t like.

In Seattle the city pushed hard for waste chutes. What are they doing in Europe instead?

Last time I went there the owner was talking about applying for Pike Place. I have a hard time believing he’s outgrowing the space, as he only uses half and it’s always empty. While the bagels are good, he is the least customer focused business owner I’ve met.

The funny thing about the J line project is that it is really a bike project masquerading as a transit project that is secretly a utility/paving project. I believe there will be little to no bus lane added. But I’m looking forward to a new safe bike way.

Bad cops are expensive.

Thanks!

What is your familial relationship to Canada? My grandma was born in Alberta, and I found it in a 1916 census, but no one stayed there. Thanks!

If you’re not cops, you’re little people.
- Blade Runner. But also SPD.