it's insane that seattle's zoning policy is effectively just 'rezone the areas renters already live ever other decade' so instead of inducing walkable areas, we induce urban cannibalism and massive buildings that consume almost entire lot w/ little privacy

We need wider or multiple lanes for people rolling. E-bikes, cargo bikes and scooters are getting more people out of cars. Maybe we should repurpose some car lanes for people rolling.

We need a transportation approach in this city genuinely willing to lower the capacity of streets if we’re ever going to *actually* accomplish mode shift and Vision Zero. We cannot keep accommodating cars first.

"I want great safe public spaces where kids can run around with abandon" Said the new Mayor of Seattle Katie Wilson yesterday, a woman of course. First time I've heard an executive say kids safety is a priority. She's going to change the City!

Mayor-Elect Wilson, bring back the congestion pricing study! The average Seattle-area driver loses 87 hours of their life each year sitting in traffic. That's over 3.5 days. Think about what you're missing out on. Books read, meals shared. That's time you'll never get back.

Wow, fucking thanks Bruce Harrell. There should be no kind words spoken about his concession speech yesterday. He opened the door to this line of thought and has validated it.

Mayor Wilson’s first action should be to cancel Bruce Harrell’s rushed cop contract

Katie Wilson has been elected Seattle's next mayor www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

A project in my neighborhood I'd love to see under the Wilson admin: Stone Way redesign to remove street parking and add protected bike lanes. It currently has 3 vehicle lanes plus street parking on each side. New protected bike lanes would link green lake to the burke & lake union loop.

is it too late to make the Talaris ecodistrict now that we have a good mayor

Congratulations to our Mayor-elect, @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social! #ThisIsOurCity #Seattle #SEAElex #SeattleElex #KCElex #WAElex

Build the Passivhaus Social Housing in Windermere, @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social

This just in—sincerity, earnestness, and hope are Good Actually!

holy shit lets goooooo

it's not that i ever doubted that being a barista was a skilled position, but my year-long effort to try to produce a half-decent latte at home has convinced me that a good barista is easily more skilled than virtually every c-suite executive on the planet

This is really important. The main thing that makes it hard to achieve integrated nature and green in cities isn’t density of buildings or density of people — it's density of cars. And the more well-designed and integrated density of people & buildings you achieve, the fewer cars you need or want.

Also, Cascadia Single-Payer healthcare, when? Or whatever. Just like, let's declare healthcare sovereignty, since we're joining up on other healthcare things already...

If you've tried and failed to follow what Seattle's new zoning might allow, I've got you. Here are 4 case studies showing some of the exciting ways new incentives line up with current demand and emerging household demographic trends, with a focus on stacked flats. medium.com/@matthutchin...

Can't wrap my head around split ballots voting for AMR/Dionne Foster for citywide council seats and Harrell for mayor. Someone please explain this to me.

Bruce Harrell isn't the public safety candidate, @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social is! Harrell hasn't been a champion for transit, cycling, walking, rolling. In fact, he's been actively detrimental to these efforts in many cases. Vote Katie Wilson!

I can’t believe that after eight months of campaigning, we’re finally just two days from election day. As frightening as these times are, I’ve never been more hopeful about the future of our city. This has never been about me — this is about all of us.

Wilson so playful in the face of Harrell's roiling, bitter attack mode. #mood

It's time

Genuinely bizarre to me to encounter local posters shitting on our progressive candidates in defense of the most reactionary centrist candidates imaginable only for their timeline to be full of resist lib anti-Trump reposts. What lab were you grown in?

Harrell pulling the pin on a budget grenade as one of his last acts in office is petty, not to say downright harmful to many in our city. The "full audit" council is also full of shit. They don't care about fiscal responsibility. That's a dog whistle for cutting funding for everything except cops.

In 2023, the average total development cost of French social housing was 2,550 €/m² or about $275/ft². In Seattle, I recently saw an infill developer claim they built a 5-pack townhouse for $275/ft² in hard costs alone. Larger wood frame apartment projects might be in the realm of $325-375/ft².

Taking a page out of @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social’s book: If you think the problem is that my parents are helping with my childcare expenses during this campaign, vote for Harrell. If you know the problem is that childcare is wildly unaffordable in Seattle, vote for me.

If children who are not related to you do not call you “Aunt” or “Uncle” then you have no charisma and no light in your eyes.

I address the first scandal of my political life—Momgate.

The world is deeply unserious about dealing with climate change. We need to reduce emissions by 50% in 5 years and we're nowhere near that.

The 2050 goal is increasingly meaningless. 1.5 is gone. The warmer it gets, the more damage & destruction climate change will produce. The more people will die. Climate risks are v likely strongly non-linear, e.g. tipping points and derailment risks. 5/6 esd.copernicus.org/articles/14/...

We deserve better. Dehumanizing our neighbors by using photos of them on their worst days without their consent is unacceptable. We have a lot of work to do to address homelessness, but this only moves us further from that goal by othering real people in an attempt to score cheap political points.

Virtually none of the criticisms made by incumbent homeowners are made in good faith. This type of person will never be satisfied with a project. They want to preserve their neighborhood in amber.

Bruce Harrell is totally unqualified to lead Seattle. By his own words, Harrell's value system places maintaining the status quo above standing up to people credibly accused of child sexual assault.

This is the type of relatively small project a climate mayor could replicate all over the city. In this case, the intersection includes 1. crappy surface parking 2. brand new apt bldg 3. small commercial space 4. new playground for #5 5. new (mostly empty) office bldg w/ childcare on the ground flr

none of that housing was because of harrell, despite his repeated claims ('i built 50k homes') permits cratered under harrell inadequate housing levy pathetic comprehensive plan that harms renters oh and it's years late oh and it killed 4k affordable homes and he opposed social housing

It’s even worse than this tho. If u care about salmon in our watershed, it’s the giant waterfront mansions lining Lake WA/Sammamish, Puget Sound w/ their armored shorelines & giant docks that are absolutely obliterating habitat & nursery grounds for baby salmon. Then those ppl drive everywhere, too😡

When people freak out about how apartments might impact like. A single tree? This is what I always think of. Most trees in the city get cut because of Rich Person Caprice

This is one of the things that sucked about working on apartment projects as an architect. It felt so bad designing terrible little windowless apartments. Not as bad as living in one though (which I also do) cool!!

i've seen what massively expanding FAR with no limitations on floor plate depth, not tying to height, or not having sense of how adjacent lots will get redeveloped in seattle - and it's a mess (and invariably leads to things like 3-bedroom homes with windowless bedrooms on a re-entrant corner)

glad to see the campaign running with this. bruce claims he's a champion of housing. permits have cratered. his levy was too small his comprehensive plan is a complete mess that *eliminated* thousands of units of affordable housing and apartments for townhouses.

i know politicians don't want to hear it - but if you actually want more family sized homes, the answer isn't increased FAR - it's legalizing taller point access blocks, and not limiting the number of instances per lot. www.archdaily.com/1034936/50-s...

It would be cheaper for me to move my parents to Seattle and rent a second apartment for help with childcare than to send my child to 5-day/week infant care next year. Harrell is woefully out of touch (big surprise).

Wow. Katie Wilson leads the Seattle mayor’s race by 12 among all voters - but among likely voters that lead shrinks to 4 points. Let’s turn out all the young voters we know to help elect @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social!

Has it always been this way?

It is hilarious to me that Bruce Harrell, a rich man who has been in a position power for decades, told the New York Times that everyone takes Katie Wilson seriously as a candidate for mayor because she's a white woman. As if that's who we've been electing mayor for the past 150 years.

Ad: This clip, then cutting to people waiting in food lines, then to Johnson saying he isn't familiar with X, Y, or Z, then cutting to U.S. citizens being arrested by masked goons, then a quote from Roberts and the immunity decision.

Mayor Harrell pretending to be more and more sewer socialist the closer it gets to Election Day. Hope the voters see through all the nonsense.

About to bike to the drop box to vote for @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social @alexis4seattle.bsky.social & Dionne Foster, and I'm gonna have a blast doing it