Memories: Looking Back to Our Appeal of the Low-Rise Rollback

Can it be that it was all so simple then Or has time rewritten every line If we had the chance to do it all again Tell me, would we? Could we? Sigh. More than 4 years ago, in the summer of 2014, we put together an appeal of the Determination of Non-Signficance (DNS) on […]

Time to File Another Appeal: City’s Impact Fee Proposal Ignores Higher Housing Prices

So I’ll dedicate this to all you Grand Bargainers out there, supporters of the City’s Mandatory Inclusionary Zoning (MIZ) scheme known as Mandatory Housing Affordability (MHA). I think this has a good beat and is pretty easy to dance to, but help me understand how impact fees fit with the Bargain? Developers were supposed to have […]

KING 5 Story: Is Washington State’s Non-Profit Housing System Fair and Efficient?

People make mistakes. Things get confused. The media can sometimes put a headline into circulation before a situation is resolved. I say these things before I mention a story that aired on KING 5 about a couple very highly placed in state government that apparently owns a subsidized condominium in Bellevue. I feel sorry for […]