Non Sequitur: How Housing Price Becomes an “Affordability Crisis”
I noted in my letter about the Grand Bargain to the Mayor and members of the Seattle City Council that If the stated problem being addressed by the [Housing Affordability and Livability Agenda] . . . effort and the Grand Bargain was housing price, we have yet to see any metric established for determining how […]
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 […]
Design Review Goof: Important Meeting for Builders on Wednesday, December 9
I’ve decided that my tombstone will have the following latin phrase carved into it: DIXI VOBIS. That roughly (and I was terrible at Latin so I welcome edits) translates to, “I told you so!” Dealing with members of the City Council, City Staff, “urbanists,” and press has taught me to keep careful track of what […]
