Reposted by @dcava.bsky.socialAlex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 05/10/2026All prisoners should have the right to vote while in prison 7351801017
Reposted by @dcava.bsky.socialCity Cast Seattle @citycastseattle.bsky.social · 17hWe're looking for the next host of City Cast Seattle! Journalists, content creators, and any other curious locals are encouraged to apply: apply.workable.com/city-cast/j/... 174
Reposted by @dcava.bsky.socialRyan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 14hNo, Sound Transit is not still facing a $35 billion budget shortfall, Seattle Times Editorial Board. We had a whole contentious process to tackle that earlier this year, maybe you weren't paying attention? 11197
dcava.bsky.social @dcava.bsky.social · 9hRespectability politics: I treat everyone who agrees with me with respect and yell at the stupid people who disagree with me. The stupid people who disagree with me must recognize my superiority and only then will I maybe to consider their concerns. 000
Reposted by @dcava.bsky.socialsavealfira.bsky.social @savealfira.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Can you imagine if someone "accidentally" overpaid SPS teachers $13 million? The Times would be demanding long prison sentences. Every teacher who cashed their paycheck would be dragged before a committee. The entire school board would have to resign. No bottom to how bad SPD can be at their job. 1285
Reposted by @dcava.bsky.socialDare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The Department of Homeland Security is celebrating that for the first time in ~50 years, more people left America than moved here. These people are so stupid and so racist they don’t realize they are scoring own goals 1117742
Reposted by @dcava.bsky.social◥◤Kriston Capps 250 @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 26/02/2026Historic neighborhoods with iron preservation mandates don't stop change. They accelerate change. Historic preservation turns units for renters into mansions for billionaires www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202... 37019
dcava.bsky.social @dcava.bsky.social · 03/10/2026MAGA Republicans are distancing themselves from Trump! No one needs a Democrat reminding them he's bad. They've got to have sonething a little more inspiring than that. 010
Reposted by @dcava.bsky.socialBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Everyone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail. 22997123093
dcava.bsky.social @dcava.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Do we have any reason to beleive it will ever be approved under the Trump administration? Is the new estimate based on the assumption a Dem congress could force the approval? 000
Reposted by @dcava.bsky.socialErica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The number of original, breaking, and investigative stories I publish, as a one-person newsroom with occasional freelancers, consistently dwarfs the output of the multiple full-time reporters the Times has on my beat. Outlets like ours need support, not legacy newspaper campaigns against us.publicola.comSupport PubliCola - PubliColaPubliCola is 100% reader-powered! If you like the work we’re doing here, and would like to support PubliCola financially, please… 1214
dcava.bsky.social @dcava.bsky.social · 02/10/2026And that doesn't even included the private cameras (e.g. Ring and Flock cameras on private property) that SPD has direct access to, right? 120
Reposted by @dcava.bsky.socialGoldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 01/10/2026States should stop branding their Medicaid programs with cute names like "Apple Health" and just plain call it "Medicaid" so that their citizens have a clear idea of who is to credit or blame for their access to coverage.seattletimes.comThousands in WA lose Apple Health coverage as Trump’s changes take effectAbout 11,000 refugees, asylees and other lawful immigrants in Washington will lose Apple Health insurance coverage starting Thursday, part of H.R.1. changes. 2338
dcava.bsky.social @dcava.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Thank you! We've needed paid parking there for a while. Excited to find more reliable parking! 030
Reposted by @dcava.bsky.socialThe Urbanist @theurbanist.org · 30/09/2026Today is the last day of our Fall Member Drive, and we've hit our goal of 100 new members! Thank you to everyone who has donated and continues to support our work. If you aren't a member already, join by the end of the day and help us exceed our goal!theurbanist.orgMembershipAdvocacy Journalism for Better Cities 0184
Reposted by @dcava.bsky.socialJames everything is analog @analogist.net · 30/09/2026Ok, srsly, real talk urbanists. If you want to see this not being a golf course in your lifetime, you'll have to put in real work, not just post about what it *should* be. We all know what it should be. But are you willing to put in *consistent, unthanked, unacknowledged* 5 hours / week for 5 years? 3457
dcava.bsky.social @dcava.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Drivers are not ready for the bike lanes they have unleashed on the city. So excited for the extra 8 feet we have to work with in redesigning our streets! 030
Reposted by @dcava.bsky.socialGordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I guess we have to hand it to the car advocates if they can get the city to admit that 20 foot fire lanes are a want not a need of SFD 0382
Reposted by @dcava.bsky.socialQagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026If we can enshrine 12-foot fire lanes in the fire code and Streets Illustrated, it will be a boon for safe streets. 1495
dcava.bsky.social @dcava.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This has been a question of mine. Is congress able to force the approvals and funding of transit measures should they take control? 000
Reposted by @dcava.bsky.socialGordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026"It increases the city's Commercial Parking Tax rate from 14.5% to 17%, a move that brings in nearly $10 million per year" Helpful, but we still need to fix two massive loop holes at the state level: 1) Stadium loophole 2) U Village loophole 1264
dcava.bsky.social @dcava.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Isnt this under the city attorneys office? Is that office underfunded? 000
dcava.bsky.social @dcava.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I was mostly joking. I'm sure they will thoroughly review the information provided by Central Staff and keep all questions relevant to the budget. 110
dcava.bsky.social @dcava.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Bob Kettle tried to undermine the social housing initiative with Prop 1B. Voters resoundingly rejected it, ensuring SSHD had its own funding and its housing would remain mixed-income. Now Bob Kettle is trying to reverse the voters will, using SSHD as an excuse to defund affordable housing. 0103
dcava.bsky.social @dcava.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Voters had the chance to make the SSHD additive and equivalent to affordable housing under the council proposed Prop 1B. Voters explicitly rejected that by +26 point. To now try to undo the voters will is truely despicable. 000
dcava.bsky.social @dcava.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Do you think they (you know who) will actually prepare for these presentations and ask relevant questions this time? 101
Reposted by @dcava.bsky.socialRyan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026"This was surprising to me to learn, that currently applicants need 30 plus permits from eight different departments to build housing in the city." -Seattle Budget Director Aly Pennucci just now 19217
dcava.bsky.social @dcava.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Yes, nihilistically telling people we will never again have a sane administration is *much* more likely to push people to action than celebrating small wins. /s 010
dcava.bsky.social @dcava.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Ballard seems more a success story than a failure. Yes, they got screwed by ST but Metro has stepped up and provides decent service. Its a thriving lively cultured neighborhood and it waiting for lightrail would have been a huge loss for Seattle. 100
Reposted by @dcava.bsky.socialPush The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026“Unlike the city of Seattle and Sound Transit, the law in British Columbia mandates high-rise zoning of 20 stories for SkyTrain stops, and eight to 12 stories within a short walk.” What’s it like living in a real city with real planners? 313320
dcava.bsky.social @dcava.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I'd love an AOC presidency. But this is a very reasonable, strong argument against. She would make a great Senator. 000
dcava.bsky.social @dcava.bsky.social · 28/09/2026True, rarely was the wrong word. But the conservatives do seem to both talk more and lie, grandstand, and pontificate more than the progressives. 000
Reposted by @dcava.bsky.socialJames Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026One day I hope to convince conservatives that we should enforce the rule of law, reduce the deficit, and not carelessly tear down the institutions prior generations built, but today is not that day. 281743169
dcava.bsky.social @dcava.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I noticed you rarely quote the progressive council members. Is that because they don't speak much or because they just don't say crazy things worth quoting? 100
Reposted by @dcava.bsky.socialQagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The decline of Starbucks is a boon for small local businesses. 816520
Reposted by @dcava.bsky.socialAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Your taxpayer dollars are being illegally spent to air a literal Trump 2024 campaign ad. 711443362
Reposted by @dcava.bsky.socialBen Raderstorf @raders.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Nithya Raman (like Zohran Mamdani) is "progressive" in the 19th Century sense of the word: A sweeping structural reformer looking to unbreak broken administrative systems and make dysfunctional local government work again. Turns out, there's a strong a cross-ideological constituency for that. 04813
Reposted by @dcava.bsky.socialrondezvousWA @ronpdavis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I think one of the most undertold stories is how Katie Wilson has DOUBLED our civilian crisis care response virtually overnight by firing our previous Chief and bringing SPD better in line. 28715
Reposted by @dcava.bsky.socialRyan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The stage of the decline of journalism we're entering: public officials view reporting on public information as a leak. viewfromthewing.com/seattle-dela...viewfromthewing.comSeattle Delays Approval Chase Sapphire Lounge, Commissioner Complains It Was Leaked To RedditPort commissioners postponed the 16,000-square-foot Chase Sapphire Lounge lease until October 27 over equity and retail-impact questions. Then they demanded to know how details from their own public m... 213221
Reposted by @dcava.bsky.socialmedicare for all @ypkyp.com · 26/09/20262020: Wilson and @seattletru.bsky.social help pass JumpStart, a landmark $450mm/year payroll tax on high earners. 2025: Wilson wins Seattle election. 2026: Mayor Wilson's balanced budget earmarks JumpStart money for homelessness response (50% of spending). Elections have consequences! 1102
dcava.bsky.social @dcava.bsky.social · 25/09/2026There is no world in which someone's life should depend on a firefighter nearing the end of a 150-hour work week. How is that legal? 000
Reposted by @dcava.bsky.socialPush The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Seattles socialist mayor just erased a $175M budget deficit, increased police spending by $70M, and did all of this without raising taxes Let’s see how the centrist council is taking the good news. Oh. 3808
Reposted by @dcava.bsky.socialAmy Sundberg @amysundberg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Saka is upset that the budget doesn't include money for CCTV cameras at the Seattle Center. Even though SPD had officers standing less than 100 feet away and had one shooter in custody in 30 seconds. 1203
dcava.bsky.social @dcava.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Fixing is unfortunately and factually harder than breaking. 110
Reposted by @dcava.bsky.socialK.H.I. @sheridesabike.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Social media in 7 words 1181
Reposted by @dcava.bsky.socialRyan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026"Mayorally mandated protected bike lane" westseattleblog.com/2026/09/foll...westseattleblog.comFOLLOWUP: Work planned this weekend to prepare for mayorally mandated protected bike lane on SW Wildwood PlaceOne month ago, we reported on an executive order by Mayor Katie Wilson that - among other things - mandated a protected bicycle lane by year's end on SW Wildwood Place, the street near the Fauntleroy ... 713619
Reposted by @dcava.bsky.socialErica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I was shocked (though I shouldn't have been) to learn, upon listening to Tuesday's public safety committee meeting today, that SPD chief Sayles explicitly said former chief Barnes delayed the Bite of Seattle press conference to be briefed, given that every headline said it was Mayor Wilson. 624360
Reposted by @dcava.bsky.socialI. Hernandez @hernando206.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Turns out when you put a not-rich person in the mayor's office, you get someone who understands how to be careful with money. The two millionaires who preceded her spent like drunken sailours and used accounting tricks to punt the ball down the road. 218129
Reposted by @dcava.bsky.socialJustin Oaksford @justinoaksford.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I think one of the major shifts happening in left of center demographics is that a large chunk of the voting population now realizes we can actually have candid wonky information from executives instead of consultant doublespeak and that will start being the standard 0406
Reposted by @dcava.bsky.socialMayor Katie B. Wilson @mayor.seattle.gov · 22/09/2026We are building a Seattle where stability is not the ceiling of our ambition, but the ground beneath it. I am transmitting a budget to City Council with ambitious funding for shelter and community to create safety, stability, and affordability. Oh, and — no structural deficit through 2030. 28942190
![503.2 Specifications. Fire apparatus access roads shall be installed and arranged in accordance with Sections 503.2.1
through 503.2.8. Fire apparatus access roads shall not traverse underneath buildings unless approved.
[S] 503.2.1 Dimensions. Fire apparatus access roads shall have an unobstructed width of not less than 20 feet (6096 mm),
exclusive of shoulders, except for approved security gates in accordance with Section 503.6, and an unobstructed vertical
clearance of not less than ((13 feet 6 inches (4115 mm))) 14 feet (4267 mm).
Exceptions:
1. Access roads serving not more than two one-family dwellings or a single two-family dwelling shall have an
unobstructed width of not less than 12 feet (3658 mm).
2. Public streets shall be in accordance with Streets Illustrated, the Seattle Right-of-Way Improvements Manual.
503.2.2 Authority. The fire code official shall have the authority to require or permit modifications to the required access
widths where they are inadequate for fire or rescue operations or where necessary to meet the public safety objectives of the
jurisdiction.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:fxjqjbmvithsqm6m7ds2uylj/bafkreidzicwo37jot3ydr2zbc5bubzxrh5fpltyjrivbvgrfnac4ke5kli)
