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Katie Lorah

@katielorah.bsky.social
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Organizer @ Urbanist Shoreline. Keep biting things off; still chewing Day jobs: Transportation Alternatives, Main Street America

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Katie Lorah @katielorah.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
North King and South Snoco urbanist folks, come hang with us at Hemlock State in MLT 6/24. We’ll be talking w @ronpdavis.bsky.social about how to organize for regional urbanism, and lessons on campaigning as a shameless urbanist at the state level. RSVP —> docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Katie Lorah @katielorah.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Ok I’ve been encouraged to ask the smart people of Bluesky about the mystery of the suddenly-all Indian pop music Spotify discover weekly. This happened to me and one other friend that I know of this week. Neither of us regularly listen to Indian pop music. Anyone else? Why??
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Katie Lorah @katielorah.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
This Friday 3-7 -we’re gettin weird in the street in Downtown Ridgecrest for Park(ing) Day! After, we’ll pack it in and head to the pub to celebrate one year of Urbanist Shoreline 😅 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Katie Lorah @katielorah.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Shoreline Mayor @electroberts.bsky.social signs the ordinance eliminating parking minimums in new developments citywide. A huge win for housing affordability, climate, walkability, business & more! Great to see so many residents speaking in favor, and a nice reminder that we CAN HAVE nice things!
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Katie Lorah @katielorah.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
A good and reasonable thing happened today 👑
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Katie Lorah @katielorah.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Policies that reduce driving are the best climate policies. Creative ideation is fine, but let’s double down on what we already know works
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Katie Lorah @katielorah.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Working hard over here to rebrand “road diet” (restrictive, subtractive) as “safety fattening” (abundant, additive) please help!
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Katie Lorah @katielorah.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
We’ll be talking street design and pedestrian safety in North City tomorrow night - come thru! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Katie Lorah @katielorah.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Do your friends’ eyes not light up when you talk about transit, or parking minimums, or form based code? Sounds like you should come find some new friends www.eventbrite.com/e/may-north-...
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Katie Lorah @katielorah.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Fellow bike and local produce guy @smart-ass-dave.bsky.social and I will be parkin’ bikes all summer long at the Shoreline Farmers Market and we need help! Honestly, find me a chiller and more pleasant volunteer opportunity. I bet you can’t. More info: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Katie Lorah @katielorah.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Come hang w US at Ridgecrest Pub on Tuesday 4/29! Happy hour at 7, optional casual convo about messaging for urbanist issues beforehand at 6. Meet some cool fun nerds. Tell us if you’re coming! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Katie Lorah @katielorah.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
If we have to stand on the side of a highway as visible political support for much-needed and voter-approved public transit investments then that’s what we’ll do! LESS FUSS MORE BUS.
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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Up in Lake Forest Park this morning with transit advocates to support completion of Sound Transit's Stride bus rapid transit project along Bothell Way. The project is facing a legal threat from opponents in LFP that could add years of delay.
Supporters hold signs at a bus stop. One reads Less Fuss More BusMore folks with signs. Public transit equals climate justiceWoman in a wheelchair holds sign supporting bus rapid transit
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Katie Lorah @katielorah.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Then onto Shoreline’s Hands Off rally - great turnout and good vibes. Still getting used to the suburban rally modality of standing on a corner and having cars honk approvingly at you. Next time can we at least take the street??
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Katie Lorah @katielorah.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Lovely day to support better public transit for Seattle, Shoreline, Lake Forest Park, Kenmore and Bothell! 👉 Lfp4brt.org Thanks to @transpochoices.bsky.social and @ceceliablack.bsky.social of Disability Rights Wa for speaking out in support! LESS FUSS MORE BUS!
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Josh Rosenau @joshrosenau.org · 05/04/2025
Not one of Indivisible’s rallies, but we want hands off our public transit.
A bunch of folks with signs saying things like “Less fuss More bus!” and Lake Forest Park for Bus Rapid Transit, gathered to protest at a bus stop.
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Katie Lorah @katielorah.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Lots of important stuff happening tomorrow, April 5, but if you’re free at 10:30am we’ll be showing up w signs and chants to support the Stride S3 Bus Rapid Transit project that some locals in LFP have been threatening to sue to stop.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
this is insane: Washington state is basically doing reverse congestion pricing, taxing sustainable/efficient forms of transportation to subsidize pointless highway widenings. and this is a state with a democratic trifecta! what is going on here
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Tech 4 Housing @tech4housing.org · 21/03/2025
Housing advocacy often reflects a generational rift. But @marciapeterson.bsky.social explains why more housing options will benefit all ages www.seattletimes.com/opinion/more...
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More kinds of housing would help Seattle residents age in place | Op-Ed
Seattle should make changes in zoning and housing policies that allow for increased density and different types of homes in more neighborhoods.
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Katie Lorah @katielorah.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Awesome to see @marciapeterson.bsky.social back in print with an appeal to her fellow boomer homeowners on why they should be pro-housing 💪💥 www.seattletimes.com/opinion/more...
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More kinds of housing would help Seattle residents age in place | Op-Ed
Seattle should make changes in zoning and housing policies that allow for increased density and different types of homes in more neighborhoods.
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Katie Lorah @katielorah.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Can someone build a bigger brewery, too many urbanists around here 💚 u @theurbanist.org and everyone who came out, this was fun, let’s do it at least once a week
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Katie Lorah @katielorah.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
This is the only definition of fame I can support
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Katie Lorah @katielorah.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Learned so much at our first Urbanist Book Jam - like a book club but instead of everyone reading the same book, you talk about a book you like and why we should like it too. Hang out, get smarter, meet some cool people. Anyway we’re doing it again next month: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Katie Lorah @katielorah.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Don’t forget to come hang out on Saturday evening w @theurbanist.org and a bunch of awesome folks who are making our north sound communities more liveable! Coolest thing to ever happen in Mountlake Terrace? Possibly! www.eventbrite.com/e/north-soun...
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North Sound Urbanist Social
The Urbanist is hosting a social with local urbanist groups to celebrate renewed focus on the cities and issues north of Seattle.
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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
with all the debate around housing & trees in seattle... i got together w/ a bunch of friends (@analogist.net, @shirleyswirley.bsky.social, francesca and @justinoaksford.bsky.social) to put together an explainer on how we can maximize both. still in progress... enjoy! www.figma.com/proto/PI9mj9...
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Katie Lorah @katielorah.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Kicking off our book club w a crowd pleaser. Come hang out and talk Happy City! (Read the book, or listen to a podcast, or watch a YouTube video… low barrier book club folks, brains are full rn) docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Katie Lorah @katielorah.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
We’ve got some good momentum and energy going up here, come hang w us and @theurbanist.org.web.brid.gy on March 15 and let’s see what we can build together! www.eventbrite.com/e/north-soun...
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Katie Lorah @katielorah.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Yeah, as a civic minded Shoreliner with a day job in NYC transpo politics I experience kind-and-reasonable whiplash every day
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Katie Lorah @katielorah.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Here’s your Shoreline City Council thread, including discussion (but no vote) on eliminating parking minimums. We’re filling a bunch of seats tonight to remind our lovely council that housing rules and parking mandates drool
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Katie Lorah @katielorah.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Spend part of your Saturday in the cozy sweet spot of the bikes/maps/public library Venn diagram. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Katie Lorah @katielorah.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Nobody could agree on a book for our book club, so instead we’re all gonna read different books and then take turns summarizing the most mind blowing ideas in them. “Urbanist books” is verrry loosely defined here. This could get silly. Join us? docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Katie Lorah @katielorah.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
The one & only @caryw.bsky.social breaking down small developer math for a bunch of urbanist and urbanist-curious Shoreliners today at our “Ask a Developer” event. An informative, practical, engaging convo on how to make our cities more affordable, walkable, green & friendly. I learned a ton!
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Katie Lorah @katielorah.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
At least one non-dumb thing happened today. Excited to see this progress
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
MTA to Feds: Drop dead
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Katie Lorah @katielorah.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
No idea if it will help save Congestion Pricing from the Trumphammer of Stupidity, but this lil map of where the tolling dollars go is super cool to see
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Katie Lorah @katielorah.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Not a drill, Seattle Bike Disco’s Friday route rolls right thru Shoreline! I’ll be there, will you?
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Josh Cohen @jcohenwrites.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
New @cascadepbsnewsroom.bsky.social: For disability rights advocates, Seattle's comp plan is seen as a chance to improve accessibility in the city because it will allow more apartments in more neighborhoods. www.cascadepbs.org/politics/202...
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Why Seattle’s housing density plans are a disability-rights issue
The city’s comprehensive plan would shift zoning rules to allow more multifamily and mixed-use buildings, which have accessibility requirements.
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Mason Thompson @masonthompson.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
The best way to not come across as a nimby organization is to not advocate for less housing.
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Katie Lorah @katielorah.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Urbanist Shoreline will be hanging out at Ridgecrest Pub tomorrow night at 7 - come say hi! I’m leading a storytelling workshop beforehand. It’s full, but hoping to do something like this again in the near future. Stories get the goods!
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Katie Lorah @katielorah.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Everyone in Shoreline should order their coffee beans from new local home-roaster Orcabay. Coffee roasting genius Moon will hand deliver your beans and your day will instantly improve. Seriously good coffee, folks
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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 10/02/2025
The US DOT says it's planning to prioritize areas with high marriage & high birth rates for funding. Our new analysis @urbaninstitute.bsky.social shows this would disproportionately fund: —Communities with a higher white resident share —Low-density areas —High-income areas —Car-dependent areas
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DOT’s Plan to Distribute Funding by Birth and Marriage Rates Would Leave Communities Most In Need Behind
If enacted, the new US Department of Transportation memo would prioritize funding to whiter, higher-income, more car-dependent areas over communities of color and people who walk, bike, or take public...
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Oliver J. Moffat @olivermoffat.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Shoreline’s council will hold a public hearing to discuss interim rules protecting the Firlands Giant Sequoia and discuss raising fees from $260 to up to $15,000 for big tree removal interurbancanopy.substack.com/p/tree-prese...
Snow falling on trees in Shoreline - photo by Oliver Moffat
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Katie Lorah @katielorah.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Sidewalks: shovel em if you got em, Shoreline!
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Sam Morey @pensandlighters.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Every word I read about congestion pricing reminds me of when they reintroduced wolves in Yellowstone and the whole ecosystem started working correctly again.
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Katie Lorah @katielorah.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Oh look, my mom, a 30-year Maple Leaf homeowner, is kicking ass (again) and standing up for more housing choices!
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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
I just want to underscore this, one more time. The Harrell Admin's growth plan would destroy more trees than the density-forward option that the city studied and set aside. Density is good for trees. That's from the city's own study.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Not one American voted for the person who is laying waste to the federal government and hijacking the secure data of US citizens. I just wanted to lay it out: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Nobody voted for Elon Musk
A self-interested, erratic megalomaniac has seized control of the US government.
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Oliver 🏳️‍🌈 @ojc.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Gosh! I dunno, what should we do??? We'd better study the issue for another 6 years
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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Washington's coolest cities support parking reform, pass it on. >Bellingham >Port Townsend >Spokane >Bothell >Shoreline
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Katie Lorah @katielorah.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
This is my mom. She’s gotten fed up w her Maple Leaf neighbors’ gatekeeping and has recently moved from arguing w nimbys on NextDoor to stepping into some real organizing for housing abundance 💪 ✨ I will tell her she’s blowing up on Bluesky
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