Tales of the City: Hey Driver, I Have Your Thermos
Today I let the Universe down. It started with a podcast interview for Marketing Professor Jeff Shulman at the University of Washington. Shulman is putting together a variety of perspectives on growth in Seattle and he wanted mine. So I decided to walk to the University from Capitol Hill. It was a beautiful day and […]
Correction: We Need More Housing, Not More Zoning
That headline is pretty loaded. What does it mean? Don’t we want more zoning capacity in order to build more housing? Over the last week or so in conversations with different people about housing and zoning and mandates being pushed by the Mayor, I realized that there has been confusion created among people in the housing and […]
A Real Grand Bargain: Leave Single-Family Alone!
Let’s face it, zoning is obsolete; it’s a 20th century solution to a 19th century problem, the encroachment of intense and messy uses of land next to less intense uses of land. In the last century, almost a 100 years ago, toxic industrial uses and people shared the same block. Zoning was initially a kind […]
