North King and South Snoco urbanist folks, come hang with us at Hemlock State in MLT 6/24. We’ll be talking w @ronpdavis.bsky.social about how to organize for regional urbanism, and lessons on campaigning as a shameless urbanist at the state level. RSVP —> docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Don't quite agree with the "adjacent-to-water" take (just give me a nice sparkling water at that point). But 100% couldn't agree more on Seattle and IPAs. My favorite breweries are 50% based on where I can regularly find good sours & saisons. Who needs two dozen hop-bombs to choose from?

"No Kings protests are useless!" I never hear this take from people who are actually putting in the work to effect change. I only hear this from people who want an excuse to stay home while feeling good about themselves. We know No Kings is insufficient. It's step 1.

Thank you everyone who came out yesterday across the nation in defense of our Constitution and our human rights. We will continue to come together to speak out against injustice and to build stronger communities. Photos from the Park at Town Center in Shoreline.

Will always repost a Justine Underhill video.

Can U.S. suburb-dwellers be persuaded to love city apartment buildings by recognizing that they might want to live in one someday? Or is beautiful architecture the key to getting the skeptical on board?

MARCH 28

[BREAKING] Two people were shot Thursday by federal officers operating in East Portland, according to the Portland Police Bureau.

Anarcho-Urbanist who turns into Traditional Town Advocate whenever I'm forced to drive.

It's official!

We had to Seattle Process ™️ it, but we did the right thing in the end!

Feels so good to be on this list. I love Shoreline! P.S. Seattle where are you?

LET'S GO!!! Huge step to addressing the climate and housing crises!

SHORELINE CITY COUNCIL VOTES UNANIMOUSLY TO ELIMINATE PARKING MINIMUMS!!! 🎉🎉🎉 Congrats Mayor @electroberts.bsky.social and the rest of the Council, and thank you for listening to your constituents!

Time for Shoreline to make good on their commitment from last year and follow suit!

Mayoral Candidate Katie Wilson: "People are going to keep moving to our region, and we need to plan for that growth. So I'm here to urge you to adopt a strong Comprehensive Plan that allows for more housing in neighborhoods throughout our city."

I'm not here to tell people they're protesting wrong, but beating the drum on 1 & 3 is the wrong way to protest.

[youth pastor voice] you know who else fell and rose dramatically in the span of three business days?

Just following Trump's tariff logic here... I have a huge trade deficit with Jeff Bezos. I've bought all kinds of things from him (used to), and he's never bought anything from me! 100% trade deficit! Maybe we should put some kinda tariff on Jeff... We could start at 50% to be generous.

#TeslaTakedown It's almost impossible to know what action to take when the country is on fire in so many different places, but hitting Elon Mu$k in the wallet - we know we're getting through to TSLA 📉 I love this design: we must stop cannibalizing our allies for short term gain.

With Elon in charge, SSA clawed back $5,201 from an 82-year-old constituent of mine, Ned, who was falsely labeled as dead. Ned struggled to correct this mistake because Elon is firing SSA staff and shuttering offices. This is real waste, fraud, and abuse—thanks to Republicans.

The most important time to use your first amendment rights is when the government threatens them. Can't wait to attend my first #TeslaTakedown today!

Proud of my city for stepping up to be the welcoming and inclusive place we say we are! We've got a lot of work to do to tackle the climate and housing crises, and eliminating parking mandates is a fundamental piece of that puzzle.

Don’t forget to vote [something more left-leaning] in November!

I've been saying this forever now. Imagine picking any other demographic trait and allocating representation based on it. I've gotten very confused responses from conservative friends over the years.

Amazing what gets priority when government officials actually use the services their government provides. We need more of this!

Washington's coolest cities support parking reform, pass it on. >Bellingham >Port Townsend >Spokane >Bothell >Shoreline

Just one of the ways we subsidize the traffic that we hate. I'm not an economist but I'm pretty sure you're supposed to subsidize what you want. Not what you don't want.

"board game publishers always lie about their play times" some of you motherfuckers take a full minute to move a single meeple

Love this framing of the "neighborhood character" complaint. I love my neighborhood! More people should be able to live here, and they shouldn't have to be millionaires to afford it. And existing residents shouldn't be priced out. The people give the neighborhood its character!

Okay, but I genuinely didn't know SPD had the most known officers at the J6 failed coup. Sometimes the satire writes itself, I guess.

Anyone who thinks this isn't controversial needs to attend a city council meeting! Maybe it not controversial *on Bluesky*...

Hearing that Bateman actually plans to introduce a substitute version of this bill in the first few days of the session reducing the ceiling for parking mandates in code cities to 0.5 per unit, making the bill more consistent.

Strong policies aimed at reducing how much Americans need to drive wouldn't just decarbonize the transportation sector and make our communities more healthy and equitable, a new study finds — it would also save us $6.2 trillion more than focusing on EVs alone. usa.streetsblog.org/2024/12/30/b...

There’s a huge double standard when it comes to funding public transit vs funding highways. It plays out in various ways in how society looks at the costs of building & operating transit vs highways. The result is massive under-investment in transit. 🧵:

What a damning indictment of how even America’s ostensibly environmentally minded states are approaching the question of transportation electrification and decarbonization. Budgets reflect priorities and there’s so much cost-effective benefit we lose by not appropriately taking e-bikes seriously

Fascinating article on the correlation between housing price and homelessness, and why it's more complex than it seems initially. Ultimately, the solution is still build more housing as quickly as possible, but it paints a clearer picture of how and why that's important.

To put a finer point on it: If you want a Trader Joe's in your community but you don't want to allow housing that a Trader Joe's employee could afford to live in, you're an advocate for traffic creation.

One of the very cool things about this case is that the court called one of the original framers of the MT state constitution to help interpret it because our constitution is only 50 years old and Mae Nan Robinson Ellingson was 24 years old when she helped write it.

On Monday, Bellingham joined the growing list of cities that have opted to eliminate parking mandates citywide. Bellingham Mayor Kim Lund and an allied city council have more housing reforms on deck. Story: www.theurbanist.org/2024/12/18/b...

It's me! Looked in North Seattle where I was renting and it was impossible to find anything affordable to buy. I now live in Shoreline (and love it!). Others should be able to afford the same, and that means more housing for everyone!

Update from Shoreline City Hall: we didn’t get a full win on parking reform tonight. But Council voted 6-1 to move on this within 6 months after more “community input.” Several CMs said that they’d heard a lot of support for parking reform and had “evolved” their thinking. Our advocacy is working!

Shoreline is also poised to legalize commercial uses in residential zones across the entire city, allowing cafes, restaurants, brewpubs, markets, hardware stores and professional services pretty much everywhere outside of culs-de-sac. Not just on corner lots, with parking maximums in many cases.

On the other hand, the Sierra Club, Puget Sound Sage, Habitat for Humanity, and SEIU 775 do like this amendment.

Tomorrow night Shoreline Mayor Chris Roberts is set to put forward an amendment that would eliminate parking mandates citywide. Near transit, no parking study would be required. Shoreline city staff do not like this amendment.

This is a photo negative of the problems caused by the status quo that people fight for when they want us to just keep doing what we're doing.