How Developers Respond to Parking Reform - Transfers Magazine
Parking reforms in Seattle led developers to provide significantly less parking supply, leaving more space for the city to build housing and other needs.
Opening Streets to Play Creates Powerful Community Connections
Last summer, we started organizing block parties. We applied for a permit from the city, and blocked off either end of our street to through traffic, setting up folding tables and chairs on the str…
Seattle struck a ‘grand bargain’ on housing. Now City Hall is reviewing the initial results
Most real estate developers paid fees to satisfy Seattle's affordable housing requirements last year. The city collected $68 million from the 224 projects subject to the city's Mandatory Housing Affordability program.
Shelving Parking Plans Would Help Keep ST3 Transit on Schedule | The Urbanist
Parking is a huge billion-dollar capital outlay in Sound Transit’s capital expansion program. Delaying construction of parking as part of new transit projects could salvage much of the progra…
Seattle is in a housing crisis, not a land crisis. We have plenty of land in this city. So much land we have the luxury of having more than 165,000 homes dedicated as single structures on a large l…
Advocates Press for Station Access Upgrades for SR-522 Bus Rapid Transit | The Urbanist
The Stride bus rapid transit line slinking its ways from Shoreline to Bothell along NE 145th St and SR-522 has gotten its latest design update. Dubbed the S3 Line in Sound Transit’s naming sy…
Seattle Extends Cafe Streets Program through October 2021
After a long delay to start the program, the City of Seattle announced an even longer extension for restaurants and businesses to continue using public spaces for outdoor dining and retail. Seattle…
Legislation hoped to help reduce housing costs in Seattle by allowing so-called “shared parking,” giving developers fewer reasons to create large parking structures, and opening more bu…
On Monday, the Seattle City Council met to adopt a landmark citywide parking reform ordinance, which had been in the making for nearly two years. The ordinance builds upon reforms the city council …
These mammoth new parking garages speak an inconvenient truth about green-talking Seattle
Some of the largest parking structures ever built in Seattle are coming on line in and around our high-tech neighborhoods. But we're embarrassed about it, so it's OK.