Microhousing Design Review: Exploding Sinks, Misallocated Mailboxes, and Ugly Rhetoric
Some Seattle City staff and Councilmembers might be skeptical of our request that we not subject microhousing to design review until the design review process gets fixed. As I pointed out last week, the process is already bogged down with confusion, inept review, and subjective and speculative process that would add costs to rent. What would […]
Southwest Design Review Board: “Banal, amateurish, agenda driven and ignorant.”
West Seattle Blog has a post that is a couple of weeks old now, but is a great case study in why the City’s design review process is a complete and total failure. I’m going to quote extensively from Tracy Record’s amazingly detailed coverage of the proceedings. First the history of the project: 3824 California […]
Smart Growth Seattle Turns 100!
Yesterday’s post on Nick Licata making our point about what I call “disincentive zoning” marks a milestone for Smart Growth Seattle: it is our 100th post. Mr. Sousa? Are you ready? Let’s review some statistics. Over the course of the 100 posts our top referrers have been Facebook, Reddit, the Seattle Transit Blog, Twitter, Publicola, […]
