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Jason @jrock08.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Anyway, it's time to abolish the historic preservation boards. bsky.app/profile/type...

Form Follows Zoning @russellme.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Under Supt Shuldiner Seattle Public Schools managed to actually plan for where students would show up in the fall this year, avoiding the terrible 'October Shuffle' of years past when they would wait until the school year started to figure out how many teachers should be allocated to which school. 😍

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Form Follows Zoning @russellme.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

We want supreme court reform. We want laws that protect our elections and outlaw gerrymandering, (yes even when you do it).

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Gordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Intriguing: "He pointed to the 8-foot-wide sidewalks, and medians planted with trees, which he said can prevent collisions and provide more safety for pedestrians... But Hammond believes they do more to deter prostitution and other types of disorder than the city’s criminal penalties."

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Seattle Streets Alliance @streetsalliance.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Seattle is installing 24/7 speed cameras on four high-crash corridors, including Rainier Ave, E Marginal Way, and Sand Point Way. AnnaJoy Gillis, NE Safe Streets told KING 5 neighbors requested action: “Please slow down. It really makes a difference.” 📺 Watch Story: www.king5.com/article/traf...

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Dan Savage @dansavage.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Maybe one day we’ll have a Democratic governor, a Democratic county executive, and Democratic majorities in both houses of the state legislature here in Washington State and we’ll finally be able to do something about this.

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Form Follows Zoning @russellme.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Today I discovered it's getting pretty hard to do a basic landlord credit check - the credit bureaus are pushing AI based screening that claims to incorporate comprehensive data about applicants and give them an overall score as a tenant. Oh and costs more of course. YUCK.

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Beth Day @thebethocracy.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Your job is to play mom(dad) when you're the board president and the kids are fighting in the backseat. You love both your children equally, but man is one of them TESTING your patience. A statement from Gina Topp.

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Beth Day @thebethocracy.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Yes, I agree the committees should not be wasting time on tons of routine approvals. However. Rankin wants to rewrite the history around getting rid of committees at the behest of her and her SOFG allies. I mean. I GUESS the audit committee continued to exist. I GUEEEESSS.

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I'm not an alarmist person but I don't think the World Cup is the only time someone might want to do a lot of damage by driving through a crowd at Pike Place Market and I think the infrastructure should reflect that reality.

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Beth Day @thebethocracy.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Thank @joshfeit.bsky.social for saying it. It means a lot coming from one of its original creators. We’ve been feeling this in SPS-land for a long time now. They don’t find schools newsworthy (in the past 15-ish years), yet have been influencing school board politics without responsibility.

I do not come to praise the Stranger. I was the news editor there for nine years two decades ago, built a dogged news section (that included ECB!), established and forged the influence of the SECB (Stranger Election Control Board), and have since watched from afar as the news section has lost its credibility
and the paper has lost its way (long before Brady Walkinshaw took over.) And so yes, I agree that their outsized influence over elections is a drag.

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Seattle Department of Transportation @transportation.seattle.gov · 17/08/2026

Over a 5-year period, there were 93 collisions in the area. 39 were injury collisions. 6 crashes injured people biking and 8 injured people walking. On nearby NE 65th St, a similar Safety Project reduced all crashes by 67%, with no fatal or serious-injury crashes after the redesign was completed.

We know safer street designs work
We have seen the difference this kind of work can make nearby. SDOT redesigned NE 65th St in Roosevelt and Ravenna after years of serious crashes. The project added safer crossings and turns, protected bike lanes, and a street design intended to reduce speeding and crashes.

The results were dramatic. After the redesign:

Crashes fell 67% on the western portion of NE 65th St. Pedestrian crashes there also fell 67%.
There were no fatal or serious-injury crashes after the full redesign was completed
The share of drivers traveling over 30 mph also dropped substantially

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Cary Westerbeck @caryw.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Can we do this in Washington state too? Please?

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Cary Westerbeck @caryw.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

🎯💯 Bottom line this is the truth. Abolish zoning and just control for nuisances (noise, smell, lights, etc.)

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Families for Safe Streets @familiesforsafestreets.org · 10/08/2026

These U.S. headlines all occurred within the LAST 24 HOURS. A reminder that these are the types of consequences we choose to accept when we tolerate traffic violence. Crashes ≠ accidents.

Yellow Families for Safe Streets graphic titled “Within the last 24 hours…” Eight news headlines report: a 1-year-old girl killed by a vehicle in Las Vegas; a pedestrian critically wounded and two young boys fighting for their lives in California; a construction worker killed and two others injured in Nesconset; a child killed by a dump truck in Sprague; a woman killed while walking in Stamford; a Dallas pedestrian killed by an SUV and thrown into a Waymo; a missing teen killed in a crash on I-20 in Columbia County; and a man killed by multiple vehicles in Bakersfield.

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Still reading through this 391 page EIS and it's making me want to throw my laptop across the room. It portrays the idea of building 500 units on Aurora Avenue instead of next to Discovery Park as a less impactful alternative, because it doesn't consider the impacts on the NEW RESIDENTS.

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Julia Grant Reed @juliareedwa.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Congrats to @cmeddielin.bsky.social for his hard work on this! Big bills like this are such a lift, they take energy, focus, determination and flexibility. Hurrah!

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Gordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Kettle has routinely outperformed expectations in pro-housing votes, and Hollingsworth has often disappointed

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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I want an environmental review period where I can appeal your next vehicle purchase since cars do more damage to our city’s climate than apartments do.

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Councilmember Eddie Lin @cmeddielin.seattle.gov · 28/07/2026

Join us today at 2 pm if you can! In person or testify remotely. I wish we were voting on Phase 2 and adopting new neighborhood centers across the City today. 🤷🏻‍♂️ But hopefully we can at least pass legislation to minimize future harmful and unnecessary delays.

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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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Councilmember Eddie Lin @cmeddielin.seattle.gov · 26/07/2026

And when we talk about housing, I think we need to get away from the framing that it’s ordinary citizens fighting against evil greedy developers. Because often what we are really talking about is current residents fighting against denser housing for new/additional neighbors.

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Beth Day @thebethocracy.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I just looked up the guidance for this thread and did NOT know that the state only covers free school meals for ELEMENTARY, and not Middle and High School. WTF!!! That makes using the "schools with >40% poverty already get free meals" excuse even more ridiculous.

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Robert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com · 22/07/2026

There's an effort out there to both-sides the Seattle universal free school meals issue. Don't fall into that trap. Nobody forced Hollingsworth to fund her proposal for feeding poor kids during weekends/school breaks by defunding universal free school meals, rather than find other revenue.

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Azmazing1 @azmazing1.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

The council never thinks about D5: the poorest census tracts are located here, counter to the SE Seattle narrative, w/ large immigrant communities and many MLLs, their schools often get close but never receive universal FRL, wish we could come together on this, but Hollingsworth has blinders on

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Brett Hamil @bretthamil.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

It's very instructive to see how identitarian arguments are being deployed to DENY free school meals to kids. All over a piddling $3 million. They increased the SPD budget by $35M last year! Harrell added $150M in new spending in his last 2 years!

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Form Follows Zoning @russellme.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

So why doesn't Seattle have coffee shops in its light rail stations? For real, anyone know? I keep thinking about how all the train stations in Tokyo are massive shopping centers, and shops are built into the structure under the train lines. It's super convenient and must bring in tons of rent.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 21/07/2026

“Decommodify” means whatever it needs to mean to justify not allowing a freer market in housing. It is the archetypical “secret third thing.”

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Gordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Petulant properties plead for public potty pilot purge via process power play per Packer’s piece:

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 17/07/2026

We need a term for the rhetorical practice of inventing a theoretical marginalized person who would be harmed by a broadly-beneficial policy that you dislike because it would inconvenience you.

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

GOOD NEWS: Katie Wilson's proposed Seattle Transit Measure renewal will be maintained as a full ten-year, 0.3% measure after amendments to water it down were defeated. The council is still deliberating on other amendments, but those were the big ones on deck today.

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Gordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

When are we going to see news articles about scofflaw drivers not renewing their tags, and the lax enforcement?

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Gordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

SEPA: I see no problem with this Also SEPA: you want to add more housing in the middle of Seattle? Hold up

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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 09/07/2026

The 1% cap is a simple state law. It can be repealed at any time, or loosened to something like 3% + inflation. But no one is doing the hard work of convincing legislators, despite its absolute necessity to maintain public services.

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Ben Raderstorf @raders.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Pet rent is one of those annoyances for which the *only* solution is to increase housing supply until landlords feel forced to drop it to attract tenants. Banning pet rents in tight markets just mean fewer landlords will have any incentive to accept pets at all

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

A bike lane and hundreds of affordable homes in Magnolia have both been delayed since 2008 thanks in significant part to SEPA. Getting people out of cars and building new affordable housing in the City are both good for the environment!

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Alex Wakeman Rouse @awakerouse.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Women’s World Cup is June-July 2027 in Brazil! Let’s goooooooo!!

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Form Follows Zoning @russellme.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

And Seattle. Build more housing in Seattle.

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Scott Berkley @scott-berkley.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

If Dreher has the "same urbanist-y crunch" as @ronpdavis.bsky.social , why does everyone in the housing and transportation advocacy spaces know Ron from a long track record of fighting for safe streets and affordable housing and had never heard of the other guy?

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Gordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Anyway...another great reason to support The Urbanist by becoming a member: www.theurbanist.org/membership/

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

What people think SEPA is: Erin Brockovich codified into state law What SEPA actually is: is this new hospital spoiling the view from a different neighborhood

Page from the Harborview DEIS showing different views from Jose Rizal viewpoint

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Form Follows Zoning @russellme.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

CM Rivera just sent out an email urging people to call in to comment on the City's SEPA reform legislation. 🙄

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 25/06/2026

Americans and Europeans need to do a building technology knowledge swap: we help them retrofit their old buildings with air conditioning and they help us retrofit ours with elevators.

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A. Zivarts @nondriver.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Been thinking about both cyclists killed in Seattle were crushed by commercial trucks. Think it time to insist that every designed freight route in the city have a protected bike lane.

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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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Form Follows Zoning @russellme.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

For the first time since before the pandemic Parks is staffing Green Lake East Beach this year!!! Finally there will be lifeguards at the busiest beach in the City's busiest park. Feeling like I'm living in a real city today.

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Cary Westerbeck @caryw.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

💯🎯🤘🌆🔥

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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Men driving loud motorcycles is such a desperate cry for attention.

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Beth Day @thebethocracy.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

If the King County roads sales tax annoys you, let me tell you how education funding works in this state. Because it's "not fair" to the school districts whose residents keep rejecting levies, we are capped in Seattle by how much revenue we can collect from our school levies.

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