Tonight on KIRO Radio: Out of Scale? Look Across the Street!

Tonight at 7:30 I’ll be on the Jason Rantz Show broadcast on KIRO FM, 97.3 to respond to this morning’s story on microhousing. I’ll be pointing out that the microhousing being built in Eastlake is completely in scale with everything else in the neighborhood. See for yourself what the neighborhood looks like in the pictures […]

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? […]

Seattle Speaks Up: A Poster Boy for Neighborhood Overreach?

Hello Councilmember O’Brien, I wanted to alert you to the latest efforts to claim that microhousing is out of scale with surrounding buildings. As you said, neighbors often point out what they call “bad buildings” as the basis for their opposition to this product. But please see the attached e-mail thread about a project at 2371 Franklin […]