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 […]
Small-Lot Legislation: What Some Neighbors are Saying
I was forwarded an e-mail template being circulated among neighbors aimed at City Councilmembers who will be considering amendments to small-lot legislation on Tuesday. We’re still reviewing the legislation and will likely post comments tomorrow. But I thought it important to respond to the neighbors template here before the hearing at 2pm on Tuesday at […]
Licata: Making Our Point on Disincentive Zoning
Councilmember Nick Licata has an editorial in the pages of the Daily Journal of Commerce that is a response to a March 27 op-ed on incentive zoning by Ada Healey, vice-president of Vulcan Real Estate writing about incentive zoning. In trying to refute Healy, though, Licata ends up making the point that dense, high rise […]
