Tower Separation Anxiety: Design Review Edition
You’ll remember several weeks ago how strident I became when I found out that Councilmember Sally Bagshaw was proposing a tower spacing scheme downtown that would make building more housing in that neighborhood more difficult. Tower spacing is a regulation that prevents the construction of multiple high-rise towers on the same block supposedly to preserve […]
Tacocat: Looking at Growth With Humor and Optimism
The This whole week has been cat themed and that was not planned, honest. And so, to keep it consistent, the last post of the week is also about a cat, Tacocat, a Seattle band with a video about new development on Capitol Hill. To be accurate, the song lyrics to Bridge to Hawaii (2014) […]
Surprise! People Get Housing Supply and Demand at City Hall
There are times in meetings when someone says something that makes your jaw drop open. This week that happened to me. While in a meeting about a complex issue about how Seattle City Light gets service to properties that are being divided up into more than one parcel. It’s a complicated issue involving the City’s […]
