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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

“In Toderian’s view, the dividing line between cities that succeed and those that stagnate isn’t geography, wealth or even size—it’s mindset. Some places embrace experimentation, risk…Others default to caution, delay, and a reflexive belief that change is impossible.” momentummag.com/urban-truth-...

Photo by Brent Toderian of a transformed Mount Royal Avenue in Montreal, one of over a dozen transformed pedestrian streets in that city. Text over the photo says “We could never do THAT in OUR city.” Text at the bottom says “Leadership doesn’t make excuses” quoting Brent Toderian. Via the Urban Truth Collective.

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

PSA for Seattle procrastinators: If you're voting today or tomorrow, USE A DROP BOX, NOT THE MAIL! The USPS won't guarantee your timely ballot is postmarked on time. Locations of ballot boxes: cd.kingcounty.gov/en/dept/elec... More details: publicola.com/2025/10/03/p...

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Post Office Delays Could Result in Uncounted Ballots; Harrell's Budget Increases Graffiti Spending 36 Percent - PubliCola

1. Mail processing delays could result in more invalidated mail-in ballots this year, and elections officials are advising voters to…

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Rob Harrison cPHc @robharrisoncphc.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

This applies to Seattle as well as Vancouver BC. Vote for @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social!

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Rob Harrison cPHc @robharrisoncphc.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

I don’t care how much experience Bruce Harrell has—bad policy is still bad policy. #votekatiewilson

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Rob Harrison cPHc @robharrisoncphc.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

@govjayinslee.bsky.social is on it. The linked article from the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions includes changing zoning and building codes, in addition to climate mitigation, as necessary steps. Zoning and building codes are easier to implement and faster to change.

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Rob Harrison cPHc @robharrisoncphc.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

The flash flood news out of Kerr County, TX is tragic. We all want to prevent it from happening again and elsewhere. Lots of talk about better warning systems, better communication between local and NWS, etc. No one however has mentioned the idea of just not building in areas vulnerable to flooding.

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Rob Harrison cPHc @robharrisoncphc.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

And Seattle just spent, what, ten years? discussing whether to close Pike Place to cars. #seattleprocess

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

“This spring, Vienna passed a historic climate law, outlining a plan to get its climate pollution down to zero by 2040. Leaders see the city's vast social housing program as a critical tool. Vienna has two types of social housing: city-owned & city-subsidized.” @npr.org www.npr.org/2025/06/15/n...

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Rob Harrison cPHc @robharrisoncphc.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

All the pro-housing legislation and zoning in the world mean nothing without the financial means to build housing. We need neighborhood-based crowd-funding for four-plexes, so people can develop their own lots.

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Rob Harrison cPHc @robharrisoncphc.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Glad to have played a role in one of Washington’s bills (HB 1183) that—along with major breakthrough legislation on TOD, parking reform, lot-splitting, middle housing and more—will make housing in our state more affordable and abundant. Thanks @sightline.org!

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Rob Harrison cPHc @robharrisoncphc.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Perfect! Pierre Poilievre, for my American followers not tuned in to Canadian politics amidst all of our chaos, was the Trump-lite Conservative running against Mark Carney. Poilievre not only lost his bid for the PM role, but lost his seat in Parliament as well.

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Rob Harrison cPHc @robharrisoncphc.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

I’m so proud of my Canadian friends for electing this remarkable man. Watch this speech. It brought tears to my eyes. 🇨🇦❤️🇨🇦

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Rob Harrison cPHc @robharrisoncphc.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

(Reposting to have on my feed for the next time saving a tree in an urban area is used as a justification for opposing new housing.)

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Rob Harrison cPHc @robharrisoncphc.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Protecting one’s house from wildfires is just wise and prudent financial planning, considering insurance payouts after a fire, if they are available at all, will never cover the cost of rebuilding. Build firewise, build Passivhaus.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

“The United States, with its enormous highways, sprawling suburbs and neglected public transport systems, is one of the most car-dependent countries in the world. But this arrangement of obligatory driving is making many Americans actively unhappy, new research has found.” Via @theguardian.com

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How extreme car dependency is driving Americans to unhappiness

A car is often essential in the US but while owning a vehicle is better than not for life satisfaction, a study has found, having to drive too much sends happiness plummeting

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Rob Harrison cPHc @robharrisoncphc.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Representative Davina Duerr deserves massive, national props for writing this groundbreaking first-in-the-US bill and sticking with the ideas through two sessions. (Last year her HB 2071 got the ball rolling.) Thank you!

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Rob Harrison cPHc @robharrisoncphc.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

This is fantastic news for affordable housing, Passive House and mass timber. I’ve been working on this idea since 2019!

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Rob Harrison cPHc @robharrisoncphc.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Just because parts of the US are going backwards doesn’t mean WA State has to. More freeways are not the future. Vibrant cities are the future, where people move around by walking, riding bikes and taking buses.

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Rob Harrison cPHc @robharrisoncphc.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

This is a self-own by Democrats from whom I expect more. What did we get in return, for making transit service harder to provide and e-bikes (the best last-mile solution we have) more expensive?

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Gordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

A bipartisan transportation package makes sense in so far as it delivers transportation projects for every part of the state — even ruby red districts. What doesn’t make sense is including an “own the libs in cities” bus and bike tax to appease a handful of Republicans.

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Rob Harrison cPHc @robharrisoncphc.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Cool, but two notes: 1) Electric cars also have tires. 2) Zoning and road design that promote walking and riding bikes also reduces VMT and therefore incidence of another “urban killer,” cars.

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'Mic-drop moment' in scientists' push to save salmon from urban killer

The scientific discovery is gratifying for those who have watched in agony as coho salmon have died in urban streams for decades.

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Rob Harrison cPHc @robharrisoncphc.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Planning for the future means planning to accommodate people who do not yet live in an area—the kids of current residents, people moving toward economic opportunity, people fleeing repressive regimes or changes in climate. Local control of zoning by established residents tends to ignore these needs.

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Michal Rieback @micrie.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Paris is going to pedestrianize *500 MORE* street. Meanwhile Vancouver is slowly and painfuly suffocating the one great pilot it had in Gastown... Not to mention the rest on the metro area.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Every single Democrat in Congress should be demanding the resignation of Waltz and Hegseth. Every single one. This is a massive scandal. There should be a serious price to pay. AND THERE IS ZERO DOWNSIDE FOR EVEN THE MOST SCAREDY-CAT CONGRESSPERSON.

At the very least, NSA Michael Waltz – who set up the group chat and made the mistake of roping in the editor of a goddamn magazine – should be forced to resign. A former solider, Waltz filled DeSantis's old seat in the House of Representatives when he was first elected governor. He's literally a replacement level politician, and I can't imagine he'd be hard to replace again. (It's not just that he screwed up massively here. He screwed up because he had a journalist's contact info in Signal to begin with. That might cause some trouble in Trumpland.)
But Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth should also be on the block. Despite the very real concerns that his background as a weekend host for Fox & Friends and a semiprofessional alcoholic and sex pest might not have prepared him to oversee the American military machine. The bumbling approach revealed in this incident surely isn't a one-off, and suggests a slapdash approach to national security. (And yes, there have been even bigger warning signs. And even bigger than that.)

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Nathan Lauster @lausterna.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

"[Cities] end up only allowing higher density zoning in a couple of specific neighborhoods... constraining the place where all the people competing to build more homes can build. So, they're bidding up the value of the land where it's legal to build more homes." Good description & discussion!

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Dan Bertolet @danbertolet.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

And now that it passed the House, HB 1183 has to run the same gauntlet in the Senate. Which starts with a hearing on Monday 3/17 at 1:30pm. If you have relevant techical expertise, please consider testifying, it's easy over zoom, sign up here: app.leg.wa.gov/csi/Testifie...

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Matthew Lewis -- living in the era of cults and consequences @mateosfo.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

The real question is: Why do most Democratic city council member in the United States align with Trump on transportation and mobility? It's not great folks!!

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Rob Harrison cPHc @robharrisoncphc.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Fascinating talk tonight at Town Hall!

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Rob Harrison cPHc @robharrisoncphc.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Negawatts (a.k.a. conservation, per Amory Lovins) is the fastest and cheapest way to increase grid capacity.

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Rob Harrison cPHc @robharrisoncphc.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

At some point I may stop being shocked by the cruelty of this administration, but that’s unlikely, as it keeps getting worse. Could someone explain to me the magalogical reason for not feeding kids?

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Rob Harrison cPHc @robharrisoncphc.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Experienced this gap today, coming off the Bainbridge ferry. All this waterfront work, and no clear way (that we saw) for bikes to get from the ferry dock to the 2nd Ave bike lane.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Watching this and knowing how different things would be right now, isn’t sad. It’s infuriating.

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Rob Harrison cPHc @robharrisoncphc.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

HB 1183 has passed out of Appropriations! Fantastic news! Please take a moment and write or call your WA State legislators to express your support for HB 1183 leg.wa.gov/legislators/

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Rob Harrison cPHc @robharrisoncphc.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Just testified before the Washington State Legislature in support of HB 1183, a fantastic bill that will remove barriers to Passive House. 1/ app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?...

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Rob Harrison cPHc @robharrisoncphc.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

This will change housing ownership models drastically. 10-15 years Fed chair says, before mortgages are not available in areas subject to fire or flood…or…earthquake? m.youtube.com/watch?v=j8Sl...

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Fed chair says mortgages might not be available for long in some parts of the U.S.

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Rob Harrison cPHc @robharrisoncphc.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Let’s learn from our friends to the north (while we still can…). #socialhousing #ohcanada

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Rob Harrison cPHc @robharrisoncphc.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

More than two dozen bills in the #WAleg this session take aim at the state’s housing shortage. Here’s @Sightline.org’s list of solutions to bolster homebuilding and curb costs @Sightline.org www.sightline.org/2025/02/13/w...

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Washington Housing Bills to Watch in 2025

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Rob Harrison cPHc @robharrisoncphc.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Have you noticed how many Seattle Comp Plan public commenters preface anti-housing remarks with “I am a long-time Seattle resident…”? That’s great, but: The Comp Plan is also for people who don’t live here yet.

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Rob Harrison cPHc @robharrisoncphc.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

With all the concern single-family homeowners are expressing about preserving tree canopy in proposed Neighborhood Centers, it’s time to revisit Intersection Trees. Slower traffic, safer crosswalks, 160,000 more trees! harrisonarchitects.com/intersection...

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Intersection Trees - HARRISON architects

Urbanists love trees. Let’s just get that out of the way at the outset. We love them for the same reasons everyone else does: the shade that cools us and the patterns leaf shadows make; their beauty, ...

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Rob Harrison cPHc @robharrisoncphc.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

I’ve followed Dr Steingraber’s work for a couple decades now. She continues to raise important questions.

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Rob Harrison cPHc @robharrisoncphc.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Harrell’s version of the Comp Plan will lock in high housing prices for decades. Don’t fall for it.

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The Urbanist @theurbanist.org · 28/01/2025

A standalone bill on compact ADA-compliant elevators for small-scale apartments also passed out of the Senate Housing Committee last week. It got bipartisan, unanimous support. app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?...

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The Urbanist @theurbanist.org · 23/01/2025

Denser housing should be sprinkled broadly throughout cities. American cities’ obsession with putting denser housing only along arterials is a global aberration and missed opportunity for better communities.

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