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Greener alleys for all
Last week I had the great opportunity to announce winners of the Green Alleys Competition, part of Nord Alley Party VI in Pioneer Square. Todd Vogel, an urban spaces advocate and Allied Arts stalwart,...
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The Apple Store of pot dispensaries
That’s what one article called the San Francisco Patient and Resource Center, a medical marijuana dispensary that opened for business in the South of Market area. California legalized medicinal use of...
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Last Friday’s field trip to Portland
Seattle and Portland pundits engage in regular sparring over which city is “better.” This always seems weird to me because it’s like comparing fir trees to oaks. Our cities have different histories, do...
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Land use in service of economic recovery
In my last blog, I talked about some of the goals I had in mind when I re-upped for two more years as chair of the Committee on the Built Environment, a term that is coming to an end this December. I...
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Sustainability on Seattle’s College Campuses
I once wrote an editorial for the UW Daily that somehow connected a squirrel carcass that I cycled by every day on my way back and forth from campus to the need for greater recycling. Institutional and...
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The carnival sideshow of light rail stations
This afternoon the Council’s Committee on Economic Resiliency and Regional Relations will receive a report we commissioned on increasing job density without radically altering allowed land uses around...
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