Southwest Design Review Board: “Banal, amateurish, agenda driven and ignorant.”
West Seattle Blog has a post that is a couple of weeks old now, but is a great case study in why the City’s design review process is a complete and total failure. I’m going to quote extensively from Tracy Record’s amazingly detailed coverage of the proceedings. First the history of the project: 3824 California […]
Smart Growth Seattle Turns 100!
Yesterday’s post on Nick Licata making our point about what I call “disincentive zoning” marks a milestone for Smart Growth Seattle: it is our 100th post. Mr. Sousa? Are you ready? Let’s review some statistics. Over the course of the 100 posts our top referrers have been Facebook, Reddit, the Seattle Transit Blog, Twitter, Publicola, […]
Licata: Making Our Point on Disincentive Zoning
Councilmember Nick Licata has an editorial in the pages of the Daily Journal of Commerce that is a response to a March 27 op-ed on incentive zoning by Ada Healey, vice-president of Vulcan Real Estate writing about incentive zoning. In trying to refute Healy, though, Licata ends up making the point that dense, high rise […]
