GMA Data: “All You Want to do is Use Me”
Bill Withers came to mind this morning as I considered how some neighborhood groups use and abuse data generated by planning agencies to implement the Growth Management Act. Here’s Mr. Withers on being used and used again: But it doesn’t feel so good getting used when you’re on the other end of neighborhood groups that […]
NAIOP Joins Smart Growth Seattle
The Washington Chapter of NAIOP has joined Smart Growth Seattle as a sponsor. NAIOP is the commercial real estate association for developers, owners and investors in the industrial, office and related commercial real estate industries. NAIOP has become a Smart Growth Seattle sponsor because the organization’s work is consistent with NAIOP’s land use agenda in Seattle. “Affordability […]
Incentive Zoning:Wrong Problem, Wrong Solution
There is abundant quantitative evidence that puts to rest the idea that there is a lack of “workforce” housing. The market is producing many new units of housing priced at 30 percent of he monthly income of people who earn 60 to 80 percent of Area Median Income (AMI). The City Council may have already […]
