Making S**t Up: The Problem With Zoning Regulations
I am deeply skeptical of efforts to regulate outcomes in the market place using the land use code, zoning, and housing policy. What do I mean? Well an article by John McNellis at the Bay Area real estate blog, The Registry called Big City Dreaming points out one example: mandated commercial space. Many jurisdictions, including […]
Can You Have One House in a Row?
Row [roh] noun 1. A number of persons or things arranged in a line, especially a straightline: A row of apple trees. 2. A line of persons or things so arranged: The petitioners waited in a row. 3. A line of adjacent seats facing the same way, as in a theater: Seats in the third row of the balcony. 4. A street formed by two continuous lines of buildings. First, let me say that Council sponsored low-rise legislation is a lot better than the proposal that the Department of Planning and Development (DPD) offered last year. We appealed that proposal because it would have had a devastating effect on housing […]
Roosevelt Reservoir: Broad Consensus on City Owned Land for Housing.
The debate over how to address housing issues in Seattle is a contentious one, right? It’s even hard sometimes to agree on what the problem is and of course that means differences on what to do. But there doesn’t seem to be anyone, developers, non-profit affordable housing advocates, Councilmemeber Sawant, and neighborhoods who disagree about […]
