Seattle Breaks Ground on West Coast’s First Residential Highrise of ...
Oct 15, 2024 · As a new 45-story apartment tower goes up along Denny Way, Seattle is building apartments at a rapid pace – but a slump may be on the way. In mid-August, developer Holland Partner Group broke ground on Sloane, a 45-story apartment complex on the site of the former Elephant Car Wash near the Space Needle.
King County Seeks Help from State Legislature After Approving …
Dec 5, 2024 · King County is also asking for state support in standing up its five Crisis Care Centers, funded via a special levy in early 2023. While the funding plan for standing up these centers included construction and operating costs, it …
2025 Opening for Full East Link Sits on a Razor’s Edge
May 10, 2024 · Sound Transit’s contractors are now 80% complete with reconstructing the “plinths” that hold up tracks along the I-90 segments of East Link, the ones that were found to be defective in 2022.But the projected date for contractors to complete that work has already slipped from this July to August.
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5 days ago · By the time the Seattle City Council convenes for the first meeting of the Select Committee on the Comprehensive Plan on January 6, a group of residents from every single council district will have been pushing to scale back proposed zoning changes in their midst, all using similar arguments around lack of infrastructure and loss of neighborhood character.
South Federal Way’s Neighborhood Plan Takes Shape Around …
Nov 13, 2024 · # The area around a future light rail station in South Federal Way could see a significant amount of new housing and retail uses under the plan approved earlier this month. It is currently dominated by big box stores and industry.
Updated Seattle Growth Plan Adds Five Neighborhood Anchors, …
Oct 17, 2024 · In its letter on the initial draft of zoning changes, the Seattle Planning Commission — appointed by the mayor and city council to weigh in on issues just like these — directly called out this issue. “The current housing market locks the most affordable homes, multifamily apartment buildings, into small areas of the city that are often along noisy and polluting major highway corridors or ...
How Copenhagen is Leading the World in Sustainability
Feb 23, 2024 · Copenhagen is especially remarkable for its commitment to clean air through ‘Project Air View,’ a unique partnership between Google, university researchers, and the local government.From 2018-2019, a Google Street View car, equipped with air quality measurement technology developed by researchers at Utrecht University, rolled through the streets of Copenhagen to collect information on ...
Urbanism 101: Solutions to the Housing Crisis and Bad Zoning
Nov 9, 2024 · In Part I of this article, we discussed what zoning is, the history of zoning, and the seeds of the housing crisis that zoning produced.In Part 2 we’ll look at solutions. The relationship between zoning and the housing crisis is complex, as discussed in Part I.Many of the consequences of early zoning rules are still embedded in the urban infrastructure of cities today, and have continual ...
Urbanism 101: 15-Minute Cities, Walkability, and Accessibility
Aug 5, 2024 · Many cities are designed in a car-centric, sprawling way, rather than at people-friendly scales. The 15-minute city is an urban planning concept that intends to change this, with the idea that people should be able to access daily services and essentials within a 15-minute walk or bike ride.
WSDOT Secretary Millar Issues Departing Warning to Policymakers
Dec 9, 2024 · A full third of the $14.5 billion supplemental transportation budget approved in 2024 goes toward highway “improvements” — capacity expansion projects and court-mandated fish barrier removal projects, along with a small number of safety improvement projects — compared to 11% for highway maintenance and preservation.