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K.H.I. @sheridesabike.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Not gonna say “no car, no problem” but folks who can’t drive have a way of solving problems. Sometimes by necessity. Sometimes because you just gotta sail. @nondriver.bsky.social

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Matt Hutchins AIA @matthutchins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

For Seattle's ADUniverse 2.0 design competition, 2 of our designs were selected for recognition: --Heritage 6--a neighborhood friendly sixplex with generous 2BR units -Beacon (Honorable Mention)--a 3BR/2.5BA 1200sf DADU that could be ganged as a duplex or rowhouse!

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Matt Hutchins AIA @matthutchins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Crazy dissonance to say 1)"MHA fees are killing new housing production, we need to reduce it by 80%" and simultaneously 2) "let's expand MHA!" If MHA is a barrier, especially for small projects, why on earth would you extend it to NR zoning where only small infill projects are possible.

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Braeden 🎣🦀🌲🦅 @bvd100.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The Seattle Miracle: 1️⃣ Seattle’s tree canopy cover grew 50% (10pp) since 2007. 🌲 2️⃣ Seattle’s population has grown by about 25% (150k people) over the same timeframe. 🌆 This is an incredible civic achievement. Politicians should be shouting this from the rooftops.

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Matt Hutchins AIA @matthutchins.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

We're working on expanding our library of pre-approve-able/stock urban middle housing plans, from DADUs, duplexes, rowhouses, studios, and stacked flats. Some are geared toward offsite construction, can be ganged together. See alt text for particulars!

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Matt Hutchins AIA @matthutchins.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Maybe not right after the election, but as soon as Democrats take back Congress, maybe they'll hold him accountable for this epic geopolitical blunder and the wreckage he spontaneously generates www.bbc.com/news/article...

bbc.com

Iran war won't end until after US midterm elections, says Trump

The president also said oil prices won't come down until after the November races, claiming without evidence that Iran wants to impact the election.

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Matt Hutchins AIA @matthutchins.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Take this survey, if you use/appreciate/enjoy having a micro mobility option! I use it to solve my last mile problem from rapid ride to my home.

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Matt Hutchins AIA @matthutchins.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Dear @housing.seattle.gov I strongly support Alternative 1 for the Fort Lawton, if the only alternative on the table, Alternative 2, means effectively abandoning a 20 year effort to build some housing there. Please complete the Final SEIS, retain Alternative 1 as the Proposed Action

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Matt Hutchins AIA @matthutchins.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Normally, I like drawing and painting landscapes, but this trip, I tried something else—birds that I came across while walking in the beach. Weird subject matter, but a good challenge.

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Matt Hutchins AIA @matthutchins.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Three charcoal landscapes from the Oregon Coast.

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Matt Hutchins AIA @matthutchins.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Starting new ADU design, featuring a dynamic truss profile that changes along this strong diagonal delineation between public and private space.

Edmonds ADU schematic by CAST architecture / Matt Hutchins

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Matt Hutchins AIA @matthutchins.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Habitat for Humanity is pushing for housing at Fort Lawton. Join their campaign! 20 years of study is more than enough! habitatforhumanityseattle.quorum.us/campaign/167...

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Habitat for Humanity Seattle

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Matt Hutchins AIA @matthutchins.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Latest look at our new stacked flat development in Spokane. 12 flats in an older historic area. 2BR/2ba 900 nsf. Nearly every space has an operable window. If you are standing at the kitchen sink in the front flats, you are looking at century-old trees. Deep 150sf room-sized porch for every flat

Spokane 12, by CAST architecture/Matt Hutchins

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Matt Hutchins AIA @matthutchins.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Tell you your Council members today, that hearing examiner appeals are not the way to improve Seattle’s affordability crisis. Testify tomorrow at 2pm www.tiktok.com/t/ZTAD5cgMQ/

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TikTok video by matthutchins4

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Bryn Davidson - Lanefab @lanefab.com · 27/07/2026

This is our mockup of a "village" area (33rd and Mackenzie) densifying with small lot apartment buildings / corner cafes.

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Matt Hutchins AIA @matthutchins.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Seattle's critical comprehensive plan, a process that so far has taken 5 years, cost millions of dollars, hinges on whether every single person who has a spare $120 to file an appeal is satisfied that every potential, even marginal, impact is fully studied. The EIS was 3047 pages, but not adequate.

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Matt Hutchins AIA @matthutchins.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Seattleites looking to revive Design Review, if you think it will make buildings better than the ones we’re building, just know all the building you hate went thru Design Review. It made them worse and more expensive. Design Review is 100s of arbitrary guidelines that add up to BLAH buildings.

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Matt Hutchins AIA @matthutchins.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Lin is a leader and understands the stakes. I wholly support his effort to focus SEPA on real issues, rather than being a capricious cudgel deployed cynically by individuals looking to penalize new housing.

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Matt Hutchins AIA @matthutchins.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

The audacity of SEPA is that you can only study impacts, and some are not even environmental. Shadows? Views? SEPA can measure the increase in carbon or VMT from infill development, but not state the decrease per capita as a benefit Tighten SEPA: habitatforhumanityseattle.quorum.us/campaign/164...

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Habitat for Humanity Seattle

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Matt Hutchins AIA @matthutchins.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Every architect is a sucker for board form concrete.

Cottage by CAST architecture featuring board form concrete and corten siding.

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Councilmember Eddie Lin @cmeddielin.seattle.gov · 18/07/2026

Great movie. The 20 year long journey home reminds me of navigating our SEPA process. We’re approaching that for Fort Lawton and Missing Link. media1.tenor.com/m/_AzWdWsoOB...

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Matt Hutchins AIA @matthutchins.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

The heart of this modest house is this 14’ tall barrel vaulted living/dining. Can’t wait for windows —one end frames a massive cedar, the other opens to the backyard, with a terrace along one side.

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Matt Hutchins AIA @matthutchins.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

It has been rough watching a Tottenham back line excel at the World Cup. Porro and Romero are in the finals, van der Ven made the quarters, Spence the semis.

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Matt Hutchins AIA @matthutchins.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Whether the new legislation will put a dent in the massive backlog we have in housing production remains to be seen, but at the very least Congress was able to pass something on a bipartisan basis to work on the problem. www.aia.org/about-aia/pr...

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Congress Delivers Major Housing Win for Communities and Architects

AIA applauds landmark housing law that will help communities build more homes.

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Matt Hutchins AIA @matthutchins.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

One of the enduring features of being an housing advocate is that the first pass at any policy change is generally lame, then you fight fight fight to improve it, while others are fight fight fighting to make it more lame, and 5 years later, you might celebrate piecemeal progress.

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Matt Hutchins AIA @matthutchins.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

while the corridors and centers part of the comp plan is tabled, this is a perfect time to consider what is the character of the corridors, but also the adjacent streets. How do we maximize housing, add tree canopy/open space, repurpose the right of way to be safer, friendlier, and healthier.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 07/07/2026

People always want to blame "developers" for the ugly, generic buildings that get built in cities these days, but the fact is, they are basically mandated by law & regulation. Just wild the way cities punch themselves in the face.

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Matt Hutchins AIA @matthutchins.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I'm moderating a seminar Monday with two fantastic architects working on low-rise middle housing: Alex Gauzza of ISA and Bryan Alcorn of David Baker Architects. Register here! us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Middle Housing/Growning Neighborhoods with Alex Gauzza and Bryan Alcorn
Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_u1Z72nbiR0KjmsC-loQfDA

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Matt Hutchins AIA @matthutchins.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

We can clearly blame trump for putting his orange slime hex on the USMNT

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Matt Hutchins AIA @matthutchins.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I want the Poch to sit Balogun regardless of FIFA Trump collusion. If Flo plays and we win=tainted plays and we loose = tainted and we suck doesn’t play and we lose = fair play Doesn’t play and we win= fair play, we are an even better team and middle finger to corruption.

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Matt Hutchins AIA @matthutchins.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

The only way to avoid the taint of Trump and corruption of FIFA is to commit to not play Balogun. If we win, we win. if we lose, we lose with honor. There is no other path.

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Matt Hutchins AIA @matthutchins.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

To win a World Cup you have to be able to break a low block. Why France is advancing and Mexico isn’t.

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Matt Hutchins AIA @matthutchins.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

The lens through which housing needs to be looked at is : HOUSING IS BROKEN. It isn’t one thing, or a handful of things we could fix, it is everything. Codes, fees, financing, zoning, taxes, appraisals… Any project that makes it through construction is a miracle, and probably still doomed.

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Matt Hutchins AIA @matthutchins.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I thought five years on the Seattle Planning Commission would be enough to see the comp plan through, but it has stretched well beyond my two terms. Welcome, new commissioners!

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Matt Hutchins AIA @matthutchins.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

“ …building homes near existing jobs, stores, and transit saves public dollars, in both up-front infrastructure and ongoing maintenance costs, and produces more revenue in property taxes per acre than local governments can expect from development at the edge of town.” www.pew.org/en/research-...

Bar chart showing initial cost reduction for infill versus sprawl

Bar chart showing infrastructure maintenance are less than half for Washington residents when we build new infill housing rather than sprawl

Bar chart showing higher property tax receipts per acre, helps keep property taxes down while paying off infrastructure investments faster

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Matt Hutchins AIA @matthutchins.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

From now on, buried in the cost of every gallon of gas, is a little payment to Iran. Great work, Mr. President.

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Matt Hutchins AIA @matthutchins.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

It is a tell that their logo has three detached single family homes with downtown in the background. No apartments, no middle housing.

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Matt Hutchins AIA @matthutchins.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

A Swede, a Frenchman, and a Brit delivering the good news to America

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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 19/06/2026

If you are an AIA member, I would *strongly* urge you to apply to the Codes and Standards Committee. There is a big opportunity there to push codes in a pro-housing direction, but they need more multifamily architects who see the vision on the committee to get them there. www.aia.org/advocacy/cod...

aia.org

Codes & Standards Committee

The AIA Codes and Standards (C&S) Committee is the leading voice in developing and adopting national codes and standards.

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Matt Hutchins AIA @matthutchins.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Sure, we've lost a court battle, but the orcas are the bigger losers since we'll be doing nothing more about sprawl, climate adaption or road pollution this year.

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Matt Hutchins AIA @matthutchins.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

There are upwards of 185,000 apartments in Seattle, so if 13,000 are turning over it represents a healthy vacancy rate of 7%, not that we should stop building apartments.

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Matt Hutchins AIA @matthutchins.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

I have never seen this #usmnt before! Omg. Keep the foot on the gas!!!!

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Matt Hutchins AIA @matthutchins.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

‘South Rainier Drive Highway South’ is too dangerous to support this kind of density!

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Matt Hutchins AIA @matthutchins.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

It does not bode well for Patrick Condon's academic talk about Seattle's land use code when he is using AI GENERATED SLOP AS MAPS FOR HIS TALK, and doesn't understand that the whole city's base height is 3-4 stories, not just the fantasy realm colored in here. This talk is going to be great.

Patrick Condon uses AI slop map to make his case as land use expert.

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Matt Hutchins AIA @matthutchins.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Our studio's work is pretty diverse. Here on Bluesky, I'm really focused on urban and affordable housing, but we're doing some other very cool work like this off-grid cabin! Enjoy! www.mountainliving.com/offgrid/

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In Search of Solitude, One Family Finds Their Perfect Getaway - Mountain Living

This off-grid Logan Canyon cabin offers complete privacy and serenity.

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Tiffani @tiffanimc.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

SSHD will focus on creating 2, 3 and some 4 bedroom homes. These larger family-sized units are rarely built by private market developers as they aren’t “profitable” or often by affordable housing sector due to financing constraints. www.fox13seattle.com/news/seattle...

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Seattle City Council committee approves financial power for social housing

A Seattle City Council committee approved a measure giving the city's social housing developer more flexibility to finance future housing projects.

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