Tag: city council
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Fewer fights like the Missing Link? Seattle limits ‘weaponized’ environmental review appeals
Just about everyone who first learns about the decades-long Burke-Gilman Missing Link legal battle is baffled when they hear that this delay is under the guise of “environmental review.” It’s a biking and walking trail! Isn’t safer biking and walking inherently good for the environment? They’re not wrong. A process that should prevent degradation of…
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City Council will vote on ‘mandatory’ bike lane bill + funding bike parking and southend bike lanes – UPDATED
Yes, please! UPDATE: The ordinance and both resolutions passed unanimously. Details on amendments in updates below. The City Council will vote today on an ordinance and set of resolutions that would all but require the Seattle Department of Transportation to build planned bike lanes when repaving streets, would dramatically increase the bike parking supply and…
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My family lives in a house in our friends’ backyard + What ADUs can (and can’t) fix in our city
I live in my friends’ backyard along with my spouse Kelli and 16-month-old daughter. We all worked together (well, the baby didn’t really help) to build a new house where a carport and patchy weed-filled yard was previously. And in the end it cost about as much or maybe a bit less than buying a…
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Move All Seattle Sustainably coalition hosts Council candidate forums, D6 is Tuesday
Seattle’s City Council is facing its biggest shakeup since, well, the last time the seven district-based seats were up for a vote. An unprecedented 56 candidates are running for the City Council seats, and only three incumbents are seeking another term (Crosscut put together a handy candidate guide). So we are guaranteed at least four…
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Must Watch: Seattle’s bike movement finds its footing again, fights mayor’s bike plan cuts
Seattle’s bicycle movement emerged from chrysalis Tuesday transformed into its newest state, and it put on a powerful display inside City Hall. I highly recommend watching the testimony and the very interesting Committee conversation, during which Councilmembers Mike O’Brien, Rob Johnson and Kshama Sawant all had powerful things to say in support of the bike…
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Will Mayor Durkan meet the City Council’s downtown bike lane 2019 deadline? – UPDATED
SDOT will update the City Council Transportation and Sustainability Committee today on the progress (or lackthereof) on the downtown Basic Bike Network. The City Council passed a resolution last summer calling on SDOT and Mayor Jenny Durkan to complete key sections of the downtown bike network by the end of 2019, including Pike/Pine, 8th and…
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