California is really beautiful, they should let more people live here

Wow, all of this to replace a parking lot. I'm going to become the joker.

We can have Milk Carton Houses or Perimeter Blocks. Zone accordingly.

Taller, denser, faster. I was excited to announce at @housingconsortium.org's annual event yesterday that we're going to combine and accelerate Phases 3 and 4 of Seattle's comprehensive plan to achieve more housing near transit and in and around our growth centers.

The changes, Wilson says, will include: - allowing more housing within walking distance of transit, not just along busy roads - upzones in and around growth centers, including new and expanded neighborhood centers - exceeding transit-oriented development requirements in HB 1491

At the Housing Development Consortium's annual event, Mayor Katie Wilson just announced that the city will "revisit the original phases three and four" of the comprehensive plan "to be far more aggressive with our timeline and scope."

If we want better streetscapes, more livable units, and more tree canopy in Low Rise, lean into 'perimeter blocks' with interior courtyards. Push new buildings to the front for full width of lot, allow a little extra building area, and limit how much can be built in the backyard.

Proposal: Fund ST3 through a series of limited edition Boop plushie releases

If 1-2 storey straw houses are not high enough for your city, just build them higher: bsky.app/profile/mich...

Too bad this good article is marred by such a bad headline. Fixed it: To Cut Housing Costs, Some States Are Reforming Fire Safety Rules That Don't Make Buildings Safer For the record, WA was the first state to pass single-stair legislation, but is now lagging other states in implementation.

@ricoque-opcd.bsky.social Two blocks is not enough. We want Alternative 5 plus everything within 1/2 mile of frequent transit AS A START. That IS the “gradual” approach. Even this approach is too focused on business and not focused enough on families, parks, schools, etc.

@wilsonforseattle.bsky.social and your team …. We continue to get a lot of messages saying “we don’t feel like anything is happening differently under Wilson than happened under Harrell”. It is very concerning that so many people feel disappointed in us for championing you.

Someone who's owned a house for decades and demands their block be preserved in amber for all time vs. someone staring down displacement for lack of workable housing options...these are not equally valid viewpoints. They are not! It's greed and selfishness vs. meeting a basic human need.

Six floors Single stair Stacked flats Social Housing Surfaces? Permeable Side setbacks? None Someone help me continue the alliteration.

These ridiculously oversized single occupancy pickup trucks should be heavily taxed due to their danger to society, degradation of the road surfaces, and destruction of our livable planet. They are unnecessary and rarely tow, haul, or go off-road. #Trucks #PickupTruck

Outlook for the new year ...

Let's do Seattle next

dads only want one thing for the holidays - and it's car-light/free ecodistricts w/ abundant single stair + mass timber + passivhaus social and non-market housing, open space and a high quality public realm, space for nature and climate adaptation, with coffee shops & bars & places to play petanque

oooh oooh i have some thoughts on this... 1. abundant social housing 2. space for baugruppen and coops 3. a mixed use car-free ecodistrict w/ abundant open space and high quality public realm demonstrating what climate forward neighborhoods should do www.theurbanist.org/2025/12/24/s...

It's funny IMO that Berkeley, California was one of very first jurisdictions to ban straws/plastic bags -- you know, for the environment -- But soon as we learned the actual leading source of plastic pollution? Crickets. Performative progressivism. www-pbs-org.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.pbs....

"...my bill would establish the “Well Washington Fund” to safeguard state housing, healthcare, and higher education, protecting services such as Medicaid, food stamps, and housing for people with disabilities..." www.thestranger.com/guest-editor...

NEW STORY // City of Seattle Purchases 18-Acre Laurelhurst Property, Scuttling Sprawl Plans Story by Ryan Packer via @theurbanist.org // 🔗 www.theurbanist.org/2025/12/24/s...

If you have the free time to protest against new housing, your life sucks. Get a hobby. Take a ceramics class. Go for a walk. Read a book. Do literally anything else to fill the void in your heart.

New Post: The Fremont Bridge Should be Car-free seattletransitblog.com/2025/12/22/t...

Rail $395 million Public transit $753 million Debt $1.7 billion Highway upgrades $5.3 billion someone who is good at transportation planning please help me budget this. my state is dying

Is HOV lane enforcement carceral

TALARIS ECODISTRICT

This is what we really need in Neighborhood Residential zones in Seattle. I'm glad all the amendments to the Phase I plan added density and floor area bonuses for stacked flats, but we really need a 6 story height limit. Land is too expensive for an 8- or 9-plex to pencil.

mixed use ecoquartier w/ abundant social housing, community amenities and open space when?

Yes — follow @affordabletalaris.org

Affordable Talaris, a Share The Cities working group, has been demanding change at the Talaris parcel in Laurelhurst to build different & more affordable housing alongside trees, wetland, and a future daylit creek. We are heartened by the news that this parcel may have a different future!

Social Housing at Talaris when?!?!

I know @sharethecities.bsky.social was heavily involved in advocating for Affordable Talaris. Have you seen this? www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news... Is there an opportunity to reopen this advocacy work?

Bad day for infrastructure. Levee failure in Tukwila, Hood Canal Bridge closed due to high winds, Ballard Bridge mechanical issues, I-90 slide near North Bend.

Drivers follow the speed limit on 15th Ave W Challenge (impossible)

Beautiful

look it's not like we need snow to survive, unlike cars.

Do you think he included the weirdly placed crotch bulge in the genAI prompt?

Dude couldn't care less about Seattle and doesn't actually care about being Mayor for any reason other than the status and influence it personally provides to him. Good riddance, but it also sucks that he's the one at the helm at this moment.

You'd think someone would want to do something about this, maybe launch a campaign with a Vision to reduce traffic deaths and serious injuries to Zero.

It's so cool that candidates can simply lie about their positions on the campaign trail

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this is our city under harrell - whiffing the climate action plan's stated goals. we called this 4 years ago! www.seattle.gov/environment/...

in autocentric seattle where we have no climate leadership - it's almost the inverse buildings are 40% of emissions, cars and transpo are almost 60% we have no plan to address either in the timeline called for in the climate action plan. and car VMTs & emissions are UP (9%, 4%)

I need this for Seattle.

This is good news. Scissor stairs allow for a much more efficient floor plate in high rise construction. See attached image for comparison (credit letsgola.wordpress.com/2015/02/09/h...)

Always amazing to me when I look at the One Seattle Comp Plan zoning update map and see swaths of LR1 one block away from planned light rail 🫠 And that's after upzoning.

Seattle should eminent domain Talaris and build a beautiful mini-ecodistrict full of social housing around a daylit Yesler creek just to drive these people specifically insane