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 […]

Keep Microhousing Prices Low and Fix Design Review

We’ve been engaging the Council and opponents of microhousing for almost a year now and there is still strong support for microhousing as an important choice for people looking for a place to live in Seattle. But the efforts of opponents to scuttle microhousing continue and some on the City Council feel like they need […]

Kevin Lynch Interview: “Everything gets changed.”

I was doing a search that I sometimes do on Google, “Kevin Lynch video,” and the internet responded, for the first time, with a hit. The planner, writer, and thinker about cities is a hero of mine. I’ve written about him often and his influence on me and on the planning profession and practice in […]