This is what an abundance mindset looks like in transit planning. We won't fight for a perfect station alignment. We won't bog things down in process. We'll be flexible (even if it's bright blue, IYKYK). We want to be the example other cities follow and approach planning with a fierce urgency of now

Lots to learn from Bothell’s dad:

What's going on in Bothell 👇

We appointed Paul Adair to the Issaquah council last night. On housing affordability: "More supply and more density is the only way you can start tackling this problem." You can watch his interview question responses here: youtu.be/luu5nzJ7c7I?... I'm really excited to see Paul join the council!

When I was running for Issaquah council, a story I often brought up was the corner candy store where I grew up that is illegal to build in Issaquah today. Bad on its own, but representative of our broader land use problems. Hope this gets passed into law, and hope cities even comply in advance!

It's prefiling season in Olympia. Not much big housing stuff filed yet, but some interesting technical fixes are trickling in. These aren't THE solution to the housing crisis, but they're still worth pushing. HB 2151 is an interesting case study in how regulatory friction stacks up. #waleg 🧵 1/8

Just published the latest W-NOMINATE ideological scores for WA State legislators! This measure shows where lawmakers fall on the political spectrum based on their voting patterns, not rhetoric. See the full visualizations: wagraphs.com/W-Nominate/ #WALeg 🧵1/5

The Upthegrove Normalization is this election's hottest way to spot outliers in progressive WA issues. Take a precinct, and see if it over or under-performed Upthegrove, the progressive Public Lands candidate. For example, look at this map of Seattle Prop 1 (transit) after Upthegroveing it.🧵(1/5)