Thursday: Pacific Legal Foundation to Talk Grand Bargain and Takings
Ethan Blevins of the Pacific Legal Foundation (the Foundation) will join us this Thursday at the regular breakfast meeting of the Seattle Builders Council (7:30AM at the Blue Star Cafe in Wallingford). Blevins will talk about the Foundation’s work in land use and housing and talk about his thoughts on legal issues related to the […]
Seattle Magazine on Tower Spacing: Rich People’s Views or More Housing?
I’ve already written about Councilmember Sally Bagshaw’s self serving efforts to squash more housing construction downtown with a tower spacing scheme. Now Seattle Magazine has an article about the fight brewing downtown about allowing more height and lot coverage. The problem with Bagshaw’s efforts, along from being a weird conflict of interest and possibly limiting housing […]
Are Impact Fees Better than Linkage Taxes and MIZ?
Before this post even gets started let me say that we are unequivocally opposed to impact fees in the city of Seattle. There are two reasons for this. The first is that by their nature impact fees just add cost to housing and currently all housing development in the city already pay extraordinary amounts towards […]
