How a Philosophy Major Made Millions on Backyard Cottages
Everyone is annoyed with Ol’ Marty Kaplan for appealing legislation that tweaks the City’s existing rules on building backyard cottages. You’d think that the legislation was going to legalize backyard cottages. But here’s the deal: they are already legal, and have been for almost a decade. The code certainly can and should be improved to […]
Ask the Attorney General: Can Cities Donate City Owned Property for Housing?
Some hullabaloo has been made about recent legislation by the City Council allowing non-profit housing organizations right of first refusal for surplus property. Not only does this City commonly do this, they could actually donate land for purposes that are in “benefit of the needy” like housing. Oddly, the City of Seattle seems not to […]
Seattle: Turning Point, Boiling Point, or Point of No Return?
What a month! Back on May 2nd I arrived back in Seattle from Chicago. I went from the airport to my apartment, dropped off my stuff, and then took a Lyft up to a Ballard church where I saw something I’d seen before, angry neighbors. But this was a bit different. The assembled mob was […]
