You’ll never guess but the ugly flex post didn’t stop the car

You guys the submissions for the P:NW single stair design competition are so sick. ((award ceremony Thursday May 28 at Design Portland))

Dan The Man Strauss 🫡

If removing upper level setbacks, modulation requirements and SEPA process makes projects cheaper and use less energy, why do we have those restrictions at all? Remove them whether it’s mass timber, passive house, or some regular 5-over-1 building www.theurbanist.org/seattle-adva...

Weaponizing environmental concerns to prevent people from living in our urban environments isn’t new. It’s deployed by people with resources to restrict access to high opportunity areas. It’s nimbyism. In order to reach our housing goals, our land use processes must stop enabling this behavior.

For some reason this is only limited to the first 100 who apply? What are we even doing anymore. Do you want outdoor dining or not? Why do planners always have to micromanage

One thing I learned dealing with NIMBYs and republicans is that, despite getting their way their entire lives, they will always play victim when they don’t get their way. And NIMBYs come in all forms of race and income

Jesus, the orchestra bassist is against this too? Can we get her instrument changed to the world’s smallest violin?

The Squamish people of what is now Vancouver were illegally dispossessed of their land 100 years ago. They sued, got the land back, and used their sovereignty to ignore local zoning and build 6,000 new homes over the loud objections of nearby wealthy NIMBYs. Now other tribes are getting in the game.

Can we just historic preservation, design review, and environmental analysis the hell out of this and finally put all that stalling bureaucracy to good use?

Good lord a dismissed appeal takes roughly 285 days to complete and 63 out of 65 appeals the last 10 years have been dismissed. This is totally used to stall. Get rid of it. Or make it cost $20,000 to file, not $85

It’s a real renters market in Sacramento rn I’m seeing buildings that were developed 5 years ago offering rents below what they were offering when they first opened. Building housing works.

A decade ago, analysts were calling Spain a cautionary tale. Too much solar, too fast! Today, Spain is rapidly on its way to having the cheapest power in Europe. Maybe this time, solar naysayers will learn... haha, jk, they'll just move the goalposts.

well, it took a year and change, but Cambridge's first-in-the-nation project to upzone the entire city for 4-to-6 story residential has finally produced the kind of thing it was supposed to: 55 units, 20 percent affordable, replacing a single $3m home

The whole “we need cars in the market for accessibility and delivery needs” seems to spoil when you realize Pike Place Market is the same size as a Costco, which doesn’t need cars driving down its aisles for deliveries or to meet ADA

This is a great observation. Allowing cars into Pike Place Market due to “loading” and “accessibility” is like allowing cars to inch along through the middle of a Costco among pedestrian walking customers.

I cannot believe I’m reading another article debating on allowing cars into Pike Place Market after a successful pilot program showed the car free experiment was a huge financial success and wildly popular with customers and businesses www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Mayor Wilson’s socialist agenda is scaring too many big businesses into expanding office leases in downtown www.seattletimes.com/business/tec...

This could be Seattle if we wanted it to be and allowed it to be

Seattle lost 8% of its population with this project. And this wasn’t that long ago, I-5 in Seattle opened in 1969

“I am an avid cyclist” I swear they are just caricatures at this point.

Watching light rail cross a floating bridge while biking on a safe, car free street. Be still my heart

Can’t believe we listen to these people

It’s a shame it’s taking gun violence and guerrilla urbanism to pull of street end plazas. Along BC Highway 7 in Mt Pleasant this is part of the neighborhood’s design. In addition to public safety, it makes spaces for kids to play without thru traffic. www.king5.com/article/news...

Cutting to the chase, this woman doesn’t know anything about storm water runoff (or care). She doesn’t want density because it means her area changes and more people with cars show up. She is having a panic attack about it so she filed an $85 appeal. Losing these should cost $20,000 imo

I was told by “Tree Action Seattle” that planting trees in the right of way to achieve their desired goal of 40% canopy coverage was ‘not actually good’ because they wanted to preserve parking and claimed it made it dangerous at intersections due to visibility

The fact that small scale real estate investors who flip $500k starter homes into $2 million McMansions are NOT required to provide subsidized housing for poor people but the investors who flip the same homes into ten $650,000 townhomes ARE is such an indictment of California housing policy.

Isn’t one of these ‘painted ladies’ empty and falling apart because it’s too expensive for anyone to buy it?

Combined sewer overflows, tire dust, pesticides, maritime traffic, climate change, sprawl...None of these issues seemed to register, but remove a few zoning restrictions and suddenly every college educated white person in town is an amateur marine biologist.

No, “Robert”. Building infill housing is BAD for the environment because it helps HUMANS and all humans (except me and my family) are BAD for the environment. The goal should be to reduce the human population to ZERO (not counting me and my family) to save the orcas. Then we don’t NEED any housing!

Im here because a Nazi I can’t stand bought Twitter and actively ruined it

a “science nerd” being a NIMBY is literally the same as a “science nerd” denying climate change (you’re not a science nerd, you’re just a dipshit who refuses to acknowledge the overwhelming evidence against your position)

The city staff don’t see parks for recreation, they want them lifeless and quiet as bird sanctuaries

Villains never know they are the bad guys in real life

Vancouver deployed the vacant homes tax assuming there were 20-30,000 homes left vacant and it was a total dud, finding less than 1,400 of them and putting only 400 homes back on the market. The last time Seattle was affordable we had a higher vacancy rate than we do today. This tax is a mistake

This “environmentalist” started a protect the orcas club and used ai to create the logo

I would like to depave the street in front of my house to plant a tree but the tree people in my neighborhood oppose that

“A self described science nerd” and a misinformed phony NIMBY. Amazing that you can create housing instability for hundreds of thousands of people, and help increase homelessness in this city for a measly $85 appeals fee. She is a phony www.seattletimes.com/opinion/the-...

I would vote for a Logan’s Run law in Seattle, even if the age cutoff took me along with these weirdos.

Protesters at Mt Baker Beach on opening day for Bicycle Weekends. Their main demand is that it should only be twice a month, not every weekend

Things seem to be going very sanely over this bike street weekend (via Reddit)

The Lake Washington Blvd. neighbors came out to greet us!

Our mayor is in favor of these projects and I have been saying for years and years the mayor has no power over rogue, NIMBY city staff

People in Seattle are insufferable

How insufferable are the people of Seattle?

Is anyone doing more for Seattle light rail right now than Dan Strauss?

For what it’s worth, the “greedy developers” who build housing operate exactly the same way. I hope the people who voted for this measure and also actively hate new construction and developers have an awakening that perhaps they aren’t so greedy after all. This is how housing is built & managed

New construction is expensive. Someone alert the “but is this affordable?” brigade that opposes all new housing