July 6th, 2012
Somehow we got into July and I’m not sure how that happened. At the top of this year the Council went through our annual agenda priorities exercise which yielded this 2012 Action Agenda and I thought, “Great. We finished this relatively quickly at the start of the year. Now we have the
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December 20th, 2011
Sunday night I participated in a safety walk with four officers from SPD and about 40 Othello-area neighbors. We walked and talked through the streets surrounding the Othello Light Rail station – the area where Danny Vega, a beloved member of the city's Filipino and gay communities, was beaten leading to his
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November 29th, 2011
In the last few weeks I’ve written about how, when I re-upped as the committee chair for COBE in 2010, I made it a goal to focus on land use as service, as a means to an end. I talked about the ways I wanted land use to serve the greater good
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September 27th, 2011
Lately archeologists working for WSDOT have been excavating West of First Ave. between S. Holgate and S. King streets. That part of the city has seen so many people, from the Duwamish peoples who have been there for thousands of years, to the hucksters and merchants and “seamstresses” who thrived on business
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Posted: September 27th, 2011 under
Transportation.
Tags:
Historic Preservation
January 11th, 2011
Washington State Department of Transportation announced yesterday that they will propose demolishing the Western Building in Pioneer Square due concerns the building is already too structurally weak to withstand any settlement or vibrations from tunnel boring. Out of the 300-some buildings reviewed along the potential tunnel routes, it had to be the
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October 6th, 2010
For fun (don’t laugh) I posted a question on Facebook regarding the parking options facing City Council in the 2011-2012 proposed city budget. Now, the world of my “friends” on Facebook is skewed to be a self-selected lot of green-ish civic-minded types -- by no means a full, statistically accurate cross
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May 25th, 2010
As a former journalist and someone who thinks about “speaking points” and “framing,” the latest flare of argument about the deep bore tunnel replacing elevated Highway 99 has been particularly interesting. As he lobbed his debate challenge at Council President Conlin and has followed up with statements and releases, Mayor McGinn is
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Posted: May 25th, 2010 under
Transportation.
March 3rd, 2010
[caption id="attachment_1123" align="alignright" width="150" caption="Othello Light Rail Station"][/caption] I was reading through my stockpile of Daily Journals of Commerce yesterday (similar, yet different from the stack of New Yorkers at home) and came across a good article on how city regulations, transit-oriented development, and market forces are shaping new development around the
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February 2nd, 2010
[caption id="attachment_1126" align="alignright" width="150" caption="520 Bridge"][/caption] It’s been a busy few days for press conferences, letters and all around jousting about how to replace the 520 floating bridge. Last week the City Council sent a carefully worded letter to the Governor and to the transportation committee chairs in the State House and
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Posted: February 2nd, 2010 under
Transportation.
January 11th, 2010
I don’t know what exactly will come of this, but a few of us at Council are interested in allowing parking near light rail stations at least as a temporary use for a few years. The city has been following the law by issuing “notices of violation” to parking lot operators around
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Posted: January 11th, 2010 under
Transportation.
Tags:
Sound Transit
