Seattle For Growth on the Seattle Channel: Smart Solutions Needed for Showbox, URMs
Last week I had the opportunity to push back on the notion that the only way to “save” the Showbox theater downtown is to slap a historic designation on it. This makes absolutely no sense. The problem with the Showbox venue — and old brick building downtown slated for demolition to make way for housing — […]
Democrats and Preemption: The Looming Threat of Rent Control
You might remember a post from earlier this year of an e-mail I sent to Senator Jamie Pedersen. The Senator said publicly that he thought rent control is a bad idea and acknowledged it doesn’t work to help people struggling with housing costs. But then he said he would support HB 2583, a bill that would, […]
How a Philosophy Major Made Millions on Backyard Cottages
Everyone is annoyed with Ol’ Marty Kaplan for appealing legislation that tweaks the City’s existing rules on building backyard cottages. You’d think that the legislation was going to legalize backyard cottages. But here’s the deal: they are already legal, and have been for almost a decade. The code certainly can and should be improved to […]
