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100% this. I care a lot about protecting our trees and orcas. That's why I support upzoning Seattle to build more infill housing. Sprawl-induced climate pollution is the number one threat to trees and orcas, by quite some distance.

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Today in Seattle- Good news: detached single family zoning is dead-now you can build a fourplex anywhere in NR. Bad news: the local housing industry is also dead—only 379 new units under application in Q1 in Seattle.

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

oh hey i wrote a book about this. we are not making progress. even our TOD is too entirely autocentric. in seattle, our VMTs per capita are the same as they were as the 1950s. but our population has exploded. total VMTs continues to skyrocket.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

The fact that a huge majority of feasible sites are projected to be built with garage or surface parking is a travesty. We are all but guaranteeing that only the worst type of housing (from an affordability, accessibility, climate perspective) is likely to be built.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

New homes don't kill orcas, toxic tire dust does.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Incredible that this bill which has support from 0 constituents is being rammed through committee, trodding over Rinck and Strauss. In addition to being nakedly corrupt and hellbent on making Seattle worse for everyone but the wealthy, it must be a goal of this council to personally drive me insane.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Incredibly ironic to hear that from Rivera because every time I reach out to her office I get a boilerplate response that sometimes isn't even applicable to the question I sent her.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

homeowners are whining about new housing killing orcas - but it's not. it's cars. and this. and plastic.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

This really makes it clear why many of the current homeowners in this neighborhood oppose this (much too small) affordable housing development. They dislike the poors and would rather protect their investment than see something good happen for someone else.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

it's not enough to save a lot. we won't stop driving tho. more cars on the road today than any point in human history.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Yessssss, this is great news. @alexis4seattle.bsky.social gets it!

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

In Seattle, the government forces everyone to live in tiny little townhomes. They’re so small, there aren’t even stairs and you have to use a ladder to go upstairs. Elevators are illegal so all old people and babies have to live on the street

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

I'm sorry but this is a dog shit proposal. CMs should be forced to live in the shitty homes that they think are good enough for the rest of us, but that wouldn't actually be possible because none of these would be built in the first place. I'm so tired of these frankly anti-social, hateful plans.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

This doesn't meet the moment (the moment was a decade ago). Imagine if we had a planning department, council, and mayor actually willing to do the work that a huge majority of Seattleites say they want! Dense social housing everywhere, with lots of trees, close to transit!

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Already better than anything planned in Seattle in recent memory lol

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

environmental racism. the council will likely endorse it, too.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Fantastic work! This map shows how little the City of Seattle’s planners are going to utilize the gift of housing the State Legislature gave them and instead will water down where sixplexes are allowed

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

It's incredibly disappointing to me that the Cubs didn't sign Rich Hill when they had the chance. Maybe next year.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

the city council is currently slow-rolling the comp plan update, and working to kill small scale development with egregious and decadent requirements meanwhile interest rates just hit 7% we have hit a permitting cliff due to a number of reasons tariffs high interest rates massive utility fees

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

It's interesting how worried Seattle's single family homeowners are about trees, unless of course they happen to have a nice view.

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

Seattle mayor when?

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Also, reject the notion that we can't grow big evergreen trees as street trees. We absolutely can, we just have to have 12'+ wide planting strips without overhead powerlines.

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

Every single tall evergreen in Seattle is second growth. We protect them by reducing climate pollution, which means more infill housing.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

If you want tree canopy in front of buildings, that will never get cut by development THEN FUND STREET TREES!

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

We can't "don't clearcut Seattle" because we ALREADY clearcut Seattle.

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

Did I catch someone invoking the genocided indigenous people of Seattle to oppose a moderate increase in density in our most exclusive neighborhoods?

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Building more housing is the way you save trees and orcas. Anyone claiming otherwise is misusing the environment to advance a NIMBY agenda. Read more from me and @jazzyspraxis.bsky.social:

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

If you care so much about Seattle being salmon and orca habitat, stop driving your car. The toxic tire dust you're generating is killing them.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

The tree referenced by these commenters ("Grace the giant Sequoia") was 120 years old ("ancient"). I assume it was planted by a developer after all of the old growth in Seattle was clear cut.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Pretty gross to weaponize children to give public comment against housing. I hope their parents are super rich and can help them with a $200k+ down payment if they want to stay in Seattle!!

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments