Impact Fees Rejected by HALA, City Considers Them Anyway
Even though the Mayor’s Housing Affordability and Livability (HALA) Committee rejected them, the Mayor’s office of planning is still moving forward with a very extensive process to implement impact fees in Seattle. As often happens with City process, one part of the City was tasked with a project (put together an impact fee proposal) and […]
Inclusionary Zoning Heads to the United States Supreme Court
Last year the California Supreme Court upheld a San Jose law similar to the one being proposed here in Seattle. A lower court had found differently and now the case against the law has been appealed to the United States Supreme Court. The Court will decide whether it will hear the appeal. One thing different […]
Latino Politics from the A’s to the Z’s
A version of this post appeared yesterday in Publicola. In 1992 I returned to the Seattle area after two years in graduate school in Southern California. Before that, I was an undergraduate at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma. I paid very little attention to local politics; I was more likely to be reading […]
