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@sharethecities.bsky.social and company did incredible work with the Alternative 6 campaign. That is exactly the kind of cover planners need to go bold. It’s a shame Harrell decided it just didn’t count.

But rejecting growth just means existing houses continue getting more and more expensive. There are ways to build more homes for people while preserving or growing neighborhood culture, and the city should invest to do so. The CD is and should be a different place than First Hill or Capitol Hill.

1386 emails sent!

Late-Breaking Comp Plan Change Would Restore Low-Density "Donut Hole" Between Capitol Hill and Central District A separate "consent package" includes bonuses for stacked flats and social housing, but not proposals to get rid of mandatory parking requirements. publicola.com/2025/09/17/l...

I biked by a home for sale in this area today and they were prominently advertising a walkscore of 94! www.zillow.com/homedetails/...

What weird policy. When we first moved to Seattle over 15 years ago, we lived in this donut hole! We didn't have a car bcs cost & also we could walk/bike/bus to everything. Sure would have been nice to not walk as far though! It's already dense & near great transit. It should allow more!

The bill is a sort of Miranda rights for homeowners being solicited by house flippers.

it actually gets worse. we got a letter for that bsky.app/profile/holz...

The f'ing tree people are trying to strangle Seattle.

Dominique Malonga runs the floor and ties it, Seattle goes nuts

THE SEATTLE STORM STAY ALIVE 😱 Skylar Diggins' late-game heroics powered Seattle to an 86-83 win over Las Vegas to tie the series 1-1.

Final in Seattle.

By total coincidence, I'll be there on Sunday! Very excited to see this in person. Let's go, London!

The Seattle tree NIMBYs are exactly like the historic preservation NIMBYs in terms of the lies they tell themselves to be the hero of the story. It’s repeated again and again across the US. Neighborhood defender mindset leads people to look at the few blocks around them instead of thinking globally.

Per today’s comp plan hearing, here’s me and @jazzyspraxis.bsky.social explaining why dense housing and apartments are good for trees and orcas

For a second, I thought a homeowning comp plan commenter was expressing concern for the well-being of people who live in South Seattle, but I guess “southern residents” are actually whales.

Me: Oooh, nice! Are those single-stair? Rachel Nathanson: This is the fireball that will swallow our city if the comp plan passes.

What That Day-Long Comp Plan Hearing Was About Social housing, parking mandates, and "clear-cutting" Seattle's private lawns. publicola.com/2025/09/15/w...

Heads-up: At tomorrow's Seattle comp plan committee meeting, chair Joy Hollingsworth is walking on an amendment to restore the low-density "donut hole" between Capitol Hill and the Central District, reversing a plan to allow more housing in this part of Seattle's core

Great new episode of UCLA Housing Voice podcast @shanedphillips.bsky.social, featuring @holz-bau.bsky.social on single-stairs & ecodistricts, and how they differ from TOD. Definitely worth the listen to learn more about these issues:

Apropos of totally nothing at all of course, a reminder that science is not a belief system or a philosophy. It is not something that relies on faith, which is belief *despite* the absence of data. Science is a process.

In Seattle, we like to block dense, low-carbon housing in the name of trees while our temperate rainforest bursts into flame.

The only good Seattle Councilmember:

I feel like a noise can be either "continuous" or "thunking" but not both.

Cornhole concerns at the zoning committee: "The cornhole game leads to a continuous thunking noise as the beanbag hits the target. When one goes in the hole there's a loud cry of success."

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The same people pushing these amendments are fine with clear cutting forests somewhere else to build sprawl, but suddenly shed a tear at every lost leaf when it comes to multi-family construction.

1062 letters sent actionnetwork.org/letters/amen...

Missing Link Found Alive and Shivering in Seattle City Councilmember’s Basement: tinyurl.com/4xv3efu6

711 emails sent!

I have been wondering if there were any programs to do anything other than park a vehicle in the street parking in front of my house (since we sold our car that was providing traffic calming). raised garden beds? bioswale? tree planting? picnic table? so much opportunity!!!

Some residents on a neighborhood greenway asked me how they could depave the street parking in front of their homes and add trees, so I asked SDOT, who said they are “not aware of a program that could address these types of requests at this time.” 😒 Big opportunity to think different! 🚙➡️🌳

East winds are predicted for Western Washington as a low pressure system moves in and temperatures rise.

The thing is when u know the local ecology, u see just how messed up the wealthy SF nbhds in Seattle are environmentally. Lawns, wide roads, soo many cars, a few big trees but WAY more devastating amts of blackberry & ivy & even knotweed. I see more birds in cap hill than those places - towhees, …

Robins, Cooper’s hawks, eagles, juncos, bushtits. This is bc with volunteer park they have a huge habitat and then there is excellent tree cover going south from there for a long time AND invasives are controlled bc the land is better developed rather than ppl w/ too big of lots they can’t maintain.

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🌳 🌲 We love trees. 🌳 🌲 And! 🚨 We want people to have lots of housing choices in Seattle. Advocates focused solely on trees are prioritizing short term policies with ** harmful ** generational consequences. Please sign & share this action letter today. 🚨 ⚠️ 📧 actionnetwork.org/letters/amen...

Cautionary Tales: True Lies and Genuine Fakes timharford.com/2025/09/caut...

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Join us Wed. for an evening of fun, food, & community with Seattle Solidarity Budget! A City's budget is reflective of its values. Last week, City Council voted to invest millions on dangerous surveillance. What could Seattle look like if the City invested in the things we need in order to thrive?

Urgent!

I consider myself a pretty "left" person. I don't want harm to come to anyone. I want housing, food, healthcare and education for all. I want an end to gun violence. I don't want my "opponents" to die or be hurt. I want them to stop harming others

🌳 🌲 We love trees. 🌳 🌲 And! 🚨 We want people to have lots of housing choices in Seattle. Advocates focused solely on trees are prioritizing short term policies with ** harmful ** generational consequences. Please sign & share this action letter today. 🚨 ⚠️ 📧 actionnetwork.org/letters/amen...

Sara Nelson, at the Haller Lake candidate forum earlier this month (the video only got posted recently), told the crowd that she supports Maritza Rivera's amendment 102 allowing SDCI to require alternative site plans in order to maintain mature trees. "We should have been doing that all along."

letter opposing amendment 102 for those that want to email council actionnetwork.org/letters/amen...