Tower Separation Anxiety: Design Review Edition
You’ll remember several weeks ago how strident I became when I found out that Councilmember Sally Bagshaw was proposing a tower spacing scheme downtown that would make building more housing in that neighborhood more difficult. Tower spacing is a regulation that prevents the construction of multiple high-rise towers on the same block supposedly to preserve […]
Tacocat: Looking at Growth With Humor and Optimism
The This whole week has been cat themed and that was not planned, honest. And so, to keep it consistent, the last post of the week is also about a cat, Tacocat, a Seattle band with a video about new development on Capitol Hill. To be accurate, the song lyrics to Bridge to Hawaii (2014) […]
Grand Bargain: This Isn’t Going to be Easy
I was on the Seattle Channel last week with Councilmember Mike O’Brien, Eastlake resident and micrhousing opponent Linda Alexander, and affordable housing developer and Grand Bargain signer Bill Rumpf. If you watch this whole show you’ll notice that the Grand Bargain is a lot more complicated than the group Seattle For Everyone (a group organized […]
