An 8-hour round-trip drive from Seattle with no practical lodging, and they have the guts to declare no refunds? Maybe people will file a class action lawsuit? Of course (!) this is the first year I ever bought a season pass to Stevens. www.seattletimes.com/life/outdoor...

Our long national nightmare is almost finally over www.seattletimes.com/pacific-nw-m...

City Council has passed Comp Plan and middle housing legislation and with a big summer push, it ends up being advantageous for new housing options in residential neighborhoods. It was a 4 years sustained marathon of advocacy to keep it from going totally off the rails. Congrats, Seattle!

Woahhhhhh

I definitely wouldn't go that far. Political will determines how bold we are in our environmental review, while project financing remains the true limiting factor on housing construction.

It’ll be really nice once it is done!

Doesn't seem right considering both serve ~100M per year...

What’s in Lynnwood City Center, Federal Way Downtown, and Downtown Redmond that we could do here?

Highest vote getter!

Ahhhh this is so exciting!

Oh hey look the Space Needle!

Apparently someone got hit by a train in Rainier Valley but they are ok. Idk how you solve this though.

Checked out Federal Way but Sound Transit had major delays this evening so had to catch the bus home instead :(

Uh why is it white?

Meanwhile Seattle has a light rail station that should've opened already, with a freeway lid, and hasn't bothered to upzone it! With no upzoning date set!

cmon small city dont you want the revenue!?

Lmao

So many cars 😭😵‍💫

you pass impact fees onto developers and then wonder why new housing is so expensive / non-existent!

This is actually a huge milestone.

Woah

So much pain :(

I land in Georgia and MTG immediately resigns. Coincidence?

PAINT IT RED

HUGE

🚨 Transition website! www.seattle.gov/mayor-elect

Madison Valley has fallen (to PCC)

“I have nothing against Westbank, the developer of the tower. I’m glad someone is building housing in downtown Seattle, even if it’s housing that people like me can’t afford.”

Interesting question —>

Adding carfree households but not more carfree space 👎

I’m so confused with the 2 right now… isn’t the stop at 12th Ave open now?

Love it when the State Environmental Policy Act is more about preserving the status quo versus protecting the environment!

We need to build proper infrastructure for these popular scooters!

We must move fast and not get bogged down in “process”

Seattle — Now that we have electeds that listen to left urbanists, we have to be clear about what we want & be very loud so they have political cover. We have to make sure media hears us so electeds respond to us. Next 3 years hinges on being very active at council. Election was only the beginning!

Seattle’s historical boards and commissions are mostly reactionary fiefdoms.

That’s the good thing about bollards… they rated to basically stop everything!

Will be interesting to see if our new mayor takes on these undemocratic boards…

Good on Bruce for this 👍

Excited for this --> "Now that she’s been elected, Wilson owes relatively little in political debt to organizations — to her right or left — as she enters office. She’s pointed that out as a strength, saying she can govern and staff her office exactly as she sees fit."

CALL:

Katie Wilson being a socialist will come up a lot, particularly from the right. It’s true she identifies that way, as she told Danny Westneat. But I found it interesting that Seattle’s DSA chapter voted against endorsing her. Unlike Mamdani, she’s not affiliated with any socialist organizations.

What an election for Puget Sound. -Full sweep for progressives in Seattle, Burien, Redmond -New progressive mayors in Tacoma, Lynnwood -GOP CM Conrad Lee replaced in Bellevue -3/4 progressives winning in Kirkland -Full sweep of special legislative races -Gains or holds in many other cities

"For a decade voters have been told homelessness is an emergency but have seen frustratingly slow progress. Harrell was in office for almost all of that time." www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

woahhhh

Thanks SDOT and USDOT!

Would love to meet the pro-car Wilson voter! (assuming this commenter voted for them... probably not though)

Wow great day!

Our long national nightmare is almost over!!!

This is so stupid