Curtailing Small-Lots, and Ride Share. What’s Next? Who Knows?
On Monday the Seattle City Council took steps to limit the operations of ride sharing companies in Seattle. The public’s reaction has generally been one of confusion and outright derision: why would the Council curtail an innovative idea for helping people get from point A to point B without having to use their own car? […]
The Neighborhood and its Discontents
When we start to consider this possibility, we come across a point of view which is so amazing that we will pause over it. According to it, our so-called civilization itself is to blame for a great part of our misery, and we should be much happier if we were to give it up and […]
Pollet to O’Brien: Stop Single-Family Home Building
State Representative Gerry Pollet, a Democrat from Seattle’s north end, introduced legislation to mandate notification of neighbors when a new home is being built in a single-family zone. Fortunately, Representative Pollet’s bill, which only had one other sponsor also a north end legislator, died in the State Legislature. Pollet’s efforts aren’t really about notice, but […]
