Neighborhood MHA Appeal Squashed: What Happened, Why, and What’s Next?
Last week the City’s Hearing Examiner removed the last barrier for citywide implementation of the City’s Mandatory Housing Affordability (MHA) scheme by finding against neighborhood groups that had appealed implementation of MHA. Neighborhood groups argued that the City failed to properly review and consider the impacts of MHA. They failed to persuade, so now the […]
Memories: Looking Back to Our Appeal of the Low-Rise Rollback
Can it be that it was all so simple then Or has time rewritten every line If we had the chance to do it all again Tell me, would we? Could we? Sigh. More than 4 years ago, in the summer of 2014, we put together an appeal of the Determination of Non-Signficance (DNS) on […]
Seattle For Growth on the Seattle Channel: Smart Solutions Needed for Showbox, URMs
Last week I had the opportunity to push back on the notion that the only way to “save” the Showbox theater downtown is to slap a historic designation on it. This makes absolutely no sense. The problem with the Showbox venue — and old brick building downtown slated for demolition to make way for housing — […]
