Tower Separation Anxiety
Councilmember Sally Bagshaw last week sent a letter to Mayor Murray asking him to direct the Department of Planning and Development to undertake a tower spacing scheme for downtown similar to the program implemented in South Lake Union. What tower spacing does is mandate allowing only one residential tower per block. This is a recipe […]
Thanks to MFTE and the Levy, Affordable Housing is All Over Seattle
Joshua McNichols at KUOW has done us all a great favor, creating a high quality interactive map of subsidized affordable housing in Seattle. Two things matter here. First, you can see that the housing units are all over the city. As I pointed out before, this flies in the face of the argument that somehow […]
What the HALA?: Cassandra and Pollyanna Edition
There’s something I need to point out about the so called “Grand Bargain” struck between some people in the business and development community and non-profit housing community as a result of the Mayor’s Housing Affordability and Livability Agenda (HALA) Committee. I’ll keep doing this even though, I think, my point is mostly being ignored by […]
