I Never Promised You a Rose Garden: A Meeting With Some Seattle Neighbors
If you’ve been paying attention, even a little bit of attention, you’ll know I don’t have much patience for most arguments made by neighbors about growth and new housing. In fact, I usually consider their arguments red herrings, mostly bluff and bluster about whatever they can come up with to create doubt, throw up process barriers and […]
A Builder Perspective: Why Housing Is So Expensive.
Last week I went to a meeting with Seattle City Light with about a dozen small builders who work mainly in the south end of the City or just outside it but are still served by Seattle City Light. They were mad. For many of them, the meeting was the last desperate attempt to get […]
Midrise and Highrise: Movin’ on up!
This originally posted at my old site Seattle’s Land Use Code about 5 years ago. I was talking with someone about our emotional and culturally contextual views of big buildings and thought about this post. I still think this is true: our relationship with buildings is emotional and cultural as well as economic. I had […]
