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Ballard Congratulates Golf Course on Its New Light Rail Station: tinyurl.com/yncw9jep

Map of new Pinehurst light rail station opening Sept. 30 next to I-5 and 160-acre Jackson Park Golf Course.

Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 7h

Fascinating to hear how Seattle’s affordable housing tax is a burden to get housing built, so it’s being mostly waived for big projects, while also hearing how it needs to be expanded into newly allowed infill zones (which will kill their projects) seattlenice.buzzsprout.com/1897925/epis...

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MHA Holiday 2.0: Starring Seattle Councilmember Dionne Foster - Seattle Nice

Seattle still needs a lot more housing. But construction has fallen off for some types of housing, and developers say one reason projects aren't getting built is Seattle's Mandatory Housing Affordabil...

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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 18h

Right as middle housing is legalized citywide by the state. Coincidence? Its not

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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 18h

She got rid of the deficit in her first year and is doing what’s right for the city whether that makes a faction of her base mad or not nobody cares or will care come re election

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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 18h

Did the executives blame the dipshit president Trump?

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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Portland real estate is “such a mess” because…. the supply has made it all affordable Comical reporting

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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yeah sure, let’s keep building $25 billion dollar air craft carriers.

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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I keep hearing Seattle is “working on” permit reform. But it’s starting to become the never ending political promise at this point. If you want to reform permitting, do less of it. Let all projects skip land use permits, vest at application, and go straight to construction permit.

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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I’d love to hear the completely pointless reason why our crappy building code slows down escalator speeds. People do not realize how arbitrary our code is, written by industry lobbyists.

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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This building in the heart of downtown is half empty and just sold for an -87% loss. What can you do with it?

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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You tax things you want less of. It’s why they tax cigarettes. To make it too expensive to bother with that bad habit It is a disgrace this logical fallacy is applied to housing. If you believe in IZ you don’t actually want more housing, you just want certain housing, which prevents other housing

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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You see, we simply can’t do that here in Seattle. Our golf courses are apparently critical bird migration habitats. Or something.

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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It really feels like the housing crisis has built up an entire world of consultancy and political agencies to endlessly discuss the topic rather than fixing it. There’s a whole financial and political economy around the topic now

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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“Rental prices have stagnated recently because of an oversupply” Yeah housing supply creates affordable housing

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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It was a nice distraction for planning departments to study instead of upzoning low density urban neighborhoods to become more like Brooklyn

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Push 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?

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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is good journalism. The city of Seattle should be outright ashamed of themselves for never upzoning the area to value capture the generous investment it was gifted. Planning will never meet the moment. Ever.

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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is fantastic and sadly true of the planning profession. Its not just the politicians, the senior planners are in on this scam too

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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Jokes aside it’s rich the APA is making this gripe when it was their member profession that ruined cities for cars

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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Hmm. Small C conservative? The last mayor was one of those and exploded a $175M hole and even increased spending. Why do they always get to claim that? The way I see it, this seems like a liberal socialist thing to eliminate deficits.

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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The whole EIS process is a complete farce and just exists to slow down transit projects and upzones. It is not concerned with the environment at all

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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

In the 1990s, the state was paranoid we would lose Ken Griffey Jr and even the Mariners all together. To prove what a farce EIS’s are, the process was expedited and completed in 8 months despite it being on a brown site in a liquefaction zone. We speed up environmental review when we want to

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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Alternate take: almost every SFH has a staircase and they are fine

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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

We joke, but Breckenridge council said their outdoor dining was so successful that when they fully reopen their restaurants they’ll be at 150% capacity instead of 100% and it creates too many jobs they wouldn’t be able to fill so they opened Main Street to cars killing the program

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The Needling @theneedling.com · 25/09/2026

Car-Free Pike Place Market Pilot Deemed Too Successful to Continue: tinyurl.com/uund6kej

People and flowers take up space on street of Pike Place in front of the Public Market Center sign

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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It is her right as mayor to make choices on the budget. The Seattle Fire Chief is welcome to run against her in 3 years. Thanks for the concern

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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Seattles 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.

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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

In a few weeks the market should transition from Sip N Stroll to a Drink N Drive event now that they’ll let cars back in.

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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

So happy we are adding another new station ahead of schedule. But incredibly disappointed in the city of Seattle’s abject failure of planning that didn’t bother upzoning this area to value capture this $250M investment. 10 years of fiddling with reports and barely any change proposed. Pathetic

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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Station cost aside, it is an incredible disservice Seattle’s planning department did for, after 10+ years of process, not upzoning around it significantly to get a proper ROI for this regional gift they were given

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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

All I ever hear is that upzones cause gentrification. Well, this wasn’t upzoned, how expensive do you think these homes are?

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Joe Cohen @cohenhouse.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Another dumb American code requirement! basin.la/articles/nin...

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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If 20% of Seattle’s 165,000 single family zoned lots became a sixplex we will have added 165,000 new homes in that zone alone. This is why incremental upzones are a joke, if any of those lots builds an ADU (because it was the next upzone) it’s locked in place for 50 years even if it’s upzoned again

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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It is amazing reading this NIMBYs odyssey to conclude why he is allowed to have his NIMBYs beliefs only to conclude with “we will solve housing by allowing ADUs and splitting homes into duplexes”. What a total idiot

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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Disappointed she didn’t get to see the working market in its full functioning capacity where Ubers and lost tourists plow down the street and make it truly an unpleasant experience

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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

For what it’s worth the IBC is crap

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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 23/09/2026

I hate that sitting through some picayune ICC debate about intermediate handrail requirements for monumental stairways may now have some relevance to national politics

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Marco Chitti @chittimarco.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I really need @stephenjacobsmith.com to weigh in on the fire code aspect of this story. (BTW, the "I am the code" quote is fantastic. Welcome, Trump, to the very niche domain of code reform advocates, I guess. Sort of.)

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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Like I said, they would never give her praise for doing the one thing they swore she wouldn’t do (and her predecessor couldn’t do): eliminate the deficit with cuts.

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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Can’t wait for all the “I’m fiscally conservative, socially liberal” smug libertarian jerks to praise her. (They won’t)

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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Hopefully it’s entirely to bust drivers with expired tabs since that is messing with Sound Transit’s funding

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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

When will politicians realize they don’t have to “cut a deal” with unnamed advocates in a closed door meeting room?

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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The meme I started is being replicated and now is using Seattle area coffee shops. So proud

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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

We need to ban cars from Pike Place Market immediately, even Ubers and taxis

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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

There were nearly 400 comments under the original article and half were about accepting this as is and pedestrianizing it. But nobody cares what they have to say apparently, so Seattle Times only is going to print the pro driving comments from suburbanites and sway public opinion.

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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Trickle down economics actually works when you’re holding debt

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