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And Seattle just spent, what, ten years? discussing whether to close Pike Place to cars. #seattleprocess

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“This spring, Vienna passed a historic climate law, outlining a plan to get its climate pollution down to zero by 2040. Leaders see the city's vast social housing program as a critical tool. Vienna has two types of social housing: city-owned & city-subsidized.” @npr.org www.npr.org/2025/06/15/n...

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All the pro-housing legislation and zoning in the world mean nothing without the financial means to build housing. We need neighborhood-based crowd-funding for four-plexes, so people can develop their own lots.

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Glad to have played a role in one of Washington’s bills (HB 1183) that—along with major breakthrough legislation on TOD, parking reform, lot-splitting, middle housing and more—will make housing in our state more affordable and abundant. Thanks @sightline.org!

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Perfect! Pierre Poilievre, for my American followers not tuned in to Canadian politics amidst all of our chaos, was the Trump-lite Conservative running against Mark Carney. Poilievre not only lost his bid for the PM role, but lost his seat in Parliament as well.

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I’m so proud of my Canadian friends for electing this remarkable man. Watch this speech. It brought tears to my eyes. 🇨🇦❤️🇨🇦

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(Reposting to have on my feed for the next time saving a tree in an urban area is used as a justification for opposing new housing.)

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Protecting one’s house from wildfires is just wise and prudent financial planning, considering insurance payouts after a fire, if they are available at all, will never cover the cost of rebuilding. Build firewise, build Passivhaus.

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“The United States, with its enormous highways, sprawling suburbs and neglected public transport systems, is one of the most car-dependent countries in the world. But this arrangement of obligatory driving is making many Americans actively unhappy, new research has found.” Via @theguardian.com

submitted 68 days ago • 21 comments

Representative Davina Duerr deserves massive, national props for writing this groundbreaking first-in-the-US bill and sticking with the ideas through two sessions. (Last year her HB 2071 got the ball rolling.) Thank you!

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

This is fantastic news for affordable housing, Passive House and mass timber. I’ve been working on this idea since 2019!

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

Just because parts of the US are going backwards doesn’t mean WA State has to. More freeways are not the future. Vibrant cities are the future, where people move around by walking, riding bikes and taking buses.

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NEW STORY // Op-Ed: Harrell’s Growth Plan Fails to Add Enough Housing or Tree Canopy www.theurbanist.org/2025/03/29/h...

submitted 85 days ago • 1 comment

This is a self-own by Democrats from whom I expect more. What did we get in return, for making transit service harder to provide and e-bikes (the best last-mile solution we have) more expensive?

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

A bipartisan transportation package makes sense in so far as it delivers transportation projects for every part of the state — even ruby red districts. What doesn’t make sense is including an “own the libs in cities” bus and bike tax to appease a handful of Republicans.

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

Cool, but two notes: 1) Electric cars also have tires. 2) Zoning and road design that promote walking and riding bikes also reduces VMT and therefore incidence of another “urban killer,” cars.

submitted 86 days ago • 1 comment

Planning for the future means planning to accommodate people who do not yet live in an area—the kids of current residents, people moving toward economic opportunity, people fleeing repressive regimes or changes in climate. Local control of zoning by established residents tends to ignore these needs.

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

Paris is going to pedestrianize 500 MORE street. Meanwhile Vancouver is slowly and painfuly suffocating the one great pilot it had in Gastown... Not to mention the rest on the metro area.

submitted 91 days ago • 2 comments

Every single Democrat in Congress should be demanding the resignation of Waltz and Hegseth. Every single one. This is a massive scandal. There should be a serious price to pay. AND THERE IS ZERO DOWNSIDE FOR EVEN THE MOST SCAREDY-CAT CONGRESSPERSON.

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"[Cities] end up only allowing higher density zoning in a couple of specific neighborhoods... constraining the place where all the people competing to build more homes can build. So, they're bidding up the value of the land where it's legal to build more homes." Good description & discussion!

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And now that it passed the House, HB 1183 has to run the same gauntlet in the Senate. Which starts with a hearing on Monday 3/17 at 1:30pm. If you have relevant techical expertise, please consider testifying, it's easy over zoom, sign up here: app.leg.wa.gov/csi/Testifie...

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The real question is: Why do most Democratic city council member in the United States align with Trump on transportation and mobility? It's not great folks!!

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Fascinating talk tonight at Town Hall!

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Negawatts (a.k.a. conservation, per Amory Lovins) is the fastest and cheapest way to increase grid capacity.

submitted 104 days ago • 0 comments

At some point I may stop being shocked by the cruelty of this administration, but that’s unlikely, as it keeps getting worse. Could someone explain to me the magalogical reason for not feeding kids?

submitted 104 days ago • 0 comments

Experienced this gap today, coming off the Bainbridge ferry. All this waterfront work, and no clear way (that we saw) for bikes to get from the ferry dock to the 2nd Ave bike lane.

submitted 106 days ago • 0 comments

The EnergyStar webpage is gone.

submitted 112 days ago • 0 comments

Watching this and knowing how different things would be right now, isn’t sad. It’s infuriating.

submitted 114 days ago • 11 comments

HB 1183 has passed out of Appropriations! Fantastic news! Please take a moment and write or call your WA State legislators to express your support for HB 1183 leg.wa.gov/legislators/

submitted 117 days ago • 0 comments

Just testified before the Washington State Legislature in support of HB 1183, a fantastic bill that will remove barriers to Passive House. 1/ app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?...

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This will change housing ownership models drastically. 10-15 years Fed chair says, before mortgages are not available in areas subject to fire or flood…or…earthquake? m.youtube.com/watch?v=j8Sl...

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Let’s learn from our friends to the north (while we still can…). #socialhousing #ohcanada

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