Southwest Design Review Board: “Banal, amateurish, agenda driven and ignorant.”
West Seattle Blog has a post that is a couple of weeks old now, but is a great case study in why the City’s design review process is a complete and total failure. I’m going to quote extensively from Tracy Record’s amazingly detailed coverage of the proceedings. First the history of the project: 3824 California […]
Licata: Making Our Point on Disincentive Zoning
Councilmember Nick Licata has an editorial in the pages of the Daily Journal of Commerce that is a response to a March 27 op-ed on incentive zoning by Ada Healey, vice-president of Vulcan Real Estate writing about incentive zoning. In trying to refute Healy, though, Licata ends up making the point that dense, high rise […]
NIMBYs (and a Legislator) are killing the economy
Matthew Yglesias at Vox has written an important response to an article in the New York Times about how housing is holding back economy. The author of that article spends lots of time on people being hesitant to buy houses, but Yglesias points out that in cities like Seattle housing isn’t being built fast enough […]
