Consider Using $149 Million for Housing on City Owned Land, Not Precinct
Hello Counclmember O’Brien and Sawant, Thank you for your vote, Councilmember O’Brien, against the $149 million dollar precinct building. I find it bewildering that the City is about to spend that kind of money on that kind of project. It is one building. Not that long ago, City staff found that Councilmember Sawant’s proposal to build […]
Chaotic Council Meeting Includes Low Key Passage of Mandatory Inclusionary Zoning
Members of the Seattle City Council sat motionless for about two hours yesterday while they were bombarded by an overflow crowd demanding that the City not build a new $160 million dollar precinct building in north Seattle. After completely losing control of the meeting on more than one occasion, Council President Bruce Harrell shut the […]
Council to Pass MIZ Framework In Spite of New Legal Concerns
Later this morning, the Seattle City Council will take one step closer to imposing a full fledged Mandatory Inclusionary Zoning (MIZ) policy requiring fees or inclusion of price controlled housing units with all new construction. Along with the many arguments we’ve made against the proposal there is an additional one: the City Council is acting […]
