Profile avatar
citizen-cate.bsky.social
Fighting against car dependency, one unused parking spot at a time. Senior researcher at @Sightline.
161 posts 4,023 followers 497 following
Prolific Poster
Posts 43 Comments 6

Seattle only lost 252 acres of tree coverage in the last 20 years and people here formed full on political organizations to protect it from happening. This project will lose 3x that in one swoop. Maybe they should go protest there

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

“Parking is absolutely a hindrance to home construction. Without a doubt, this is a huge opportunity for the City of Bremerton to be the leader in the county and in western Washington.” Jake Carter director of construction for Habitat for Humanity of Kitsap County www.theurbanist.org/2025/06/06/b...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

"We reduced parking requirements, worked with the fire marshals to allow 6-story apartments with single stair cases... we eliminated impact fees not directly related to the project... there are a lot of layers to the onion and we're still peeling it." - Gov. Gianforte 📍Montana

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

I am one of the lucky Americans who has a warm, sunny, but wind-protected, corner against a south facing wall (to emit heat at night). I can grow one bunch of bananas per year, only the small short variety

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

Woohoo!! Congratulations to Bremerton on joining the optional parking party! 🎊

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

ChatGPT has amazing soft skills - it will validate you and compliment you all day long. Look at the feedback it gave this author! So positive! And then it apologized so well. Better than many humans! Just dont give it a task that involves accuracy lol.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Montana just passed a bipartisan housing overhaul. No more costly parking mandates for small homes, a greenlight for six-story single-stair apartment buildings in all commercial areas, and fairer rules for manufactured homes and ADUs. More choices, less red tape, lower costs. Let’s go!

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

ICE arrested a transgender woman at Immigration Court, who was seeking asylum in the US after having been raped by cartel members in her home state of Michoacán www.wweek.com/news/courts/...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

So proud of CT! A great example of shooting for the moon and landing in the stars.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

🚨BIG NEWS! The CT Senate passed HB 5002 over the weekend, which fully repeals parking mandates for all residential uses! It's now heading off to the governor's desk!! Big shoutout to the folks behind ctparkingreform.org @trumbullbrod.bsky.social and Casey Moran ctmirror.org/2025/05/30/h...

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

submitted 11 days ago • 10 comments

After taking a quick break after session I’m starting to think about housing policy for next session. What’s on your pro-housing wishlist? 📋✅

submitted 12 days ago • 53 comments

Parking is the "dark matter" of urban land use. Learn about how it saps communities of vitality & raises costs -- and how Washington state recently reformed it. Juicy stuff.

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

What a great conversation! "These rules are arbitrary everywhere. They're causing problems everywhere. You just need the right collection of people with the right messengers to make this politically possible." - Catie Gould

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Breaking News: A judge said the government should release Kseniia Petrova, a Russian scientist employed by Harvard University, saying U.S. customs had “no factual or legal basis” for revoking her visa.

submitted 13 days ago • 419 comments

Today on Volts: parking is the "dark matter" of land use, invisibly making everything worse, but most municipalities continue to mandate minimum levels of it. WA state just passed some awesome parking reform & I dig into it with @citizen-cate.bsky.social & Alan Durning of @sightline.org.

submitted 13 days ago • 15 comments

Was so much fun to dive into Washington's parking reform with @volts.wtf! www.volts.wtf/p/parking-re...

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

CT's omnibus housing bill, HB 5002, *should* be up for a vote on Tuesday. There's a lot in the bill, but one key element that's survived (so far): residential parking reform. While we wait to see what happens (it's a lonnnng way from a done deal), a thread on how we got here re: parking reform/

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Public pressure works! Keep it going.

submitted 16 days ago • 366 comments

Every weekend should be 3 days

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

Re-legalizing apartments wil depend on state & regional governments. No city can end a shortage alone, therefore no city has enough of an incentive to try.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

A major escalation of the ongoing weaponization of the federal government against institutions that are deemed insufficiently obedient. This isn't about Harvard, specifically: This is an authoritarian regime weaponizing the state to force civil society institutions into submission.

submitted 19 days ago • 20 comments

Just recorded a pod on parking reform. Such awesome stuff. Can't wait to get this one out.

submitted 20 days ago • 6 comments

I said it would get worse very quickly. By tomorrow we will have completed the most dangerous & frightening 24 hours thus far of Trump 2.0. Just to name a few: 1. Defiance of a court order by sending migrants to Sudan without due process (despite clear DP decision SCOTUS) & Dist. CT. order.

submitted 20 days ago • 166 comments

Eighty thousand trans Americans have moved from transphobic states

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

This is extraordinary. The Secretary of Homeland Security doesn’t know what the right of habeas corpus is (the ancient right to go to court to challenge government detention) and offers an incoherent definition which suggests she thinks it’s a presidential power to deport people?

submitted 21 days ago • 92 comments

You love to see it!

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Congratulations to Bremerton! Opposition to parking reform is a mile wide but an inch deep.

submitted 21 days ago • 3 comments

Cities with under 50,000 people will have three full years to implement parking reforms under Washington's new state law...Lynnwood is proposing to go ahead and do it now.

submitted 24 days ago • 6 comments

“Any way you slice it, whether you’re approaching it from a left or right perspective, you arrive at the same conclusion that we need to build more homes.” 📍 Montana www.governing.com/urban/montan...

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

Washington’s new parking reform act shows what bold leadership (shoutout to @jessdbateman.bsky.social @davina425.bsky.social) and strong storytelling can do. @citizen-cate.bsky.social outlines the strategies for advocates elsewhere. #WAleg

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

"The vast majority of apartments built anywhere in Washington will have full parking flexibility." Neighborhood retail, too. I am so proud of my work bestie @citizen-cate.bsky.social for designing the country's strongest law to reduce costly parking mandates. www.sightline.org/2025/05/16/h...

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

One big reason Washington now leads the pack on statewide housing abundance legislation is that it just passed the nation's strongest parking reform bill. Here's what made that possible: www.sightline.org/2025/05/16/h...

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Dallas City Council voted 14-1 to approve major reforms to the City's off-street parking requirements. 🏙️eliminated in Downtown & within 1/2 mile of transit 🛍️eliminated for office & most retail 🏛️eliminated for historic buildings 🚗reduced for other residential uses 📍Dallas

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

@newrepublic.com has been one of my favorite news sources lately. This headline is a masterclass in letting the facts speak for themselves.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Since Seattle has a 30 day minimum on houseboat rentals, I'm just going to casually let the universe know that I'm planning to be in town for a couple weeks in June before performing in the solstice parade & also love pets. 🙏

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

This is the most tragically American thing I’ve ever read www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/u...

submitted 29 days ago • 23 comments

Sorry to spoil your day, but everyone needs to hear this.

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

If kidnapped, what would you post that would alarm your followers without the kidnappers knowing you're asking for help? "This project needs more car parking."

submitted 31 days ago • 3 comments

We need to all be prepared to enter the streets, en masse, and refuse to do anything else, if he goes forward with this insane idea.

submitted 31 days ago • 5 comments

NEW STORY // The Deck is Stacked Against Stacked Flats in Seattle www.theurbanist.org/2025/05/09/t...

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

So far, I like him! “God loves us, all of us, evil will not prevail” 🕊️ www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

The population of Chiclayo, Peru, the seat of Pope Leo XIV's bishopric, grew from a population of 60,000 to more than 600,000 since the 1950s. It sustains a population growth rate of 1.3 percent, more than double California's growth rate... You're hearing it here first folks: Pope YIMBY...

submitted 33 days ago • 2 comments