I was on Nextdoor for about a week before I realized what a cesspool it is. This is about the results I would expect.

Every time I ride the bus and watch everyone else get on without paying, I wonder if I’m the sucker for paying.

Don’t get ahead of yourself. We still can’t have real nice things. Just an occasional okay thing.

The law allows for one meeting and for objective standards. There could be very few, or lots. They could make optional design review the only way to get departures to onerous prescriptive standards. If they want to choose the path of malicious compliance, there are ways.

They should also hire whoever is in charge of their downtown public bathroom. It was both open and clean. Seattle’s public bathrooms are closed half the year and usually so gross when they’re open that you avoid using them at all cost.

We were late to the ST 2 party and got to Judkins Park at 2. The train out was still people celebrating. The train home at 5:30 is filled with people going to the game, shopping, just taking the train. It’s amazing how quick people adjust to great transit!

Fun fact, the Judkins Park station is about three blocks from what must be the only furry bar is the state, Slightly Furry Beverage Company. Though it’s not my scene, so maybe they are everywhere and I’m just ignorant.

I’m glad to see they got a taste of the typical experience!

A post office delivery vehicle blocking the sidewalk

Et tu postal service?

ST pays security to stand around bored, and pays another group to (sometimes) enforce fares. But they aren’t folks capable of enforcing anything. I’ve watched people crumple up the warning they issued in front of them. ST is not a serious organization and does not care about the taxpayer money.

Comprehensive Safety Action Plan Our Goal: Reduce serious injuries and traffic deaths on Renton’s streets. Share your experiences and help shape safer streets in Renton The City of Renton is creating a Safety Action Plan to make it s...

Who wants to take this survey on Renton’s version of Vision Zero that they have just launched! Please please take this survey and mention that you want walkable and rollable neighborhoods love yall

Make sure whatever you buy, you know where you will take it to get it worked on. There aren’t a lot of e-bike shops around. The one near me only works on bikes they sell or one brand they have to service in order to sell.

A small neighborhood apartment building

A small neighborhood apartment building in Seattle

A small neighborhood apartment building in Seattle

A small neighborhood apartment building in Seattle

Here are a few from the firm I work for, Neiman Taber Architects in Seattle. We as a firm love boxy, small lot buildings. And as a principle try to design whole buildings with simple forms and simple material palettes.

I have never heard anyone say the Bremerton of anything! As a kid from Kitsap, I love it!

The city of Seattle adds a 5% technology fee to permit fees, to signal their opposition to technology? Or maybe because they were surprised that they needed technology to do their work?

Is it raw sewage? I reported it (along with others) because some guy was excavating next to and possibly in Cheasty (his property goes farther that expected) and making no effort at erosion control. Mud was pouring down the sidewalk and bike lane.

Excuse me, this is America and we like big trucks. Do we really want to be saved by small foreign fire trucks? What next, small garbage trucks? Cargo bike delivery? Cops on foot? Where will it stop?

285 Reasons Seattle’s Zoning is an [Unfunny] Joke » The Urbanist # Strangely, it is very difficult to answer the question: "How many zones does Seattle have?" That alone suggests an uncomfortable answer. The Seattle Municipal Code lists 38 zones. These include 10 r...

I am working on a project in Seattle in the NC3(P) - 85(M) zone. Such a mess. This funny/horrifying article from @theurbanist.org really captures it well:
www.theurbanist.org/285-reasons-...

I believe it was Portland’s own Joe Cortright who did a study about how more driving is a net loss for most local economies because cars and gas have to be imported. Reducing gas consumption is basically a form of economic development.

Yes. There is a new plan set. But you have to ask them for it.

The project, along with the adjacent dead project, sold to an affordable housing developer. It’s moving forward now as a much bigger project. Not sure if it has funding, but they have been pushing the permits forward.

For what it’s worth, Seattle City Light is one of the worst agencies to deal with. We have a special consultant just for them. They are painfully slow, have big standards for everything (big doors, big vaults, big everything) and don’t care about anything except what they need.

1000x this. I worry about cars hitting my kids more than I worry about every other danger combined.

And if we had a question we would just sit and discuss it until we all agreed that Armenia is in a city in South America. Or the that the civil war ended in 1903. Who could know?

But we did have less existential dread about AI the apocalypse.

So what you’re saying is that younger you and you writing skills are basically responsible for our modern light rail system? Good work baby Qaggy.

The more I read about AI the more I miss the 90’s.

Such a missed opportunity that has now passed us by. Now we just have to take the space from car lanes instead.

I think @gordonofseattle.bsky.social and SNG was pushing for the city to at least require wider sidewalks before all the development started. This in no ways feels like a place people are supposed to walk.

A new multifamily building fronting Rainier Ave.

Nothing says Urban Village like 8 stories of building, 6’ of sidewalk, 4’ of plantings, and 6 lanes of Rainier.

Is that from the viaduct? So we can all recall roundly the hulking monstrosity that cut us off from the waterfront for decades?

Nostalgia is a hell of a drug.