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citizen-cate.bsky.social
Fighting against car dependency, one unused parking spot at a time. Senior researcher at @Sightline.
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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

“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...

"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

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

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

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.

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!

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/...

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

🚨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...

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? 📋✅

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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/

Public pressure works! Keep it going.

Every weekend should be 3 days

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.

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.

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

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.

Eighty thousand trans Americans have moved from transphobic states

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?

You love to see it!

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

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.

“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...

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

"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...

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...

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

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

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. 🙏

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

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

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."

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.

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

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

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...