push the needleHow A Little Change Can Go Very FARSeattle’s Draft Comprehensive Plan is out, and it is quite lame. Leaked documents showed the plan was watered down in the final months…5 min read·3 days ago----
push the needleHow the Hypocrisy of Planning Resides in one New York High-RiseSome stories you just couldn’t make up if you tried. New York City’s Planning Department resides in the Equitable Building in lower…5 min read·Sep 5, 2023----
push the needleWasting of MaritimeSomeone once told me the term “bureaucracy” is intentionally hard to spell. When I first tried to spell it without Googling it, I butchered…4 min read·Jun 9, 2023--1--1
push the needleWe Need More Chairs!Sometimes life delivers an irony that even the writers of SNL couldn’t deliver. Earlier this week I attended a community planning event to…7 min read·Jan 13, 2023----
push the needleIt’s the Cars that Crowd Us OutThroughout the history of our nation, cities have spawned out of sheer desire to live where opportunity exists. Manhattan took 50 years to…7 min read·Aug 22, 2022----
push the needleBusting The NIMBY Myth of Trickle Down HousingThere is no such thing as “trickle down housing”. You may have heard this misunderstood economic analysis at a community meeting or in the…4 min read·Feb 7, 2022----
push the needleThe LoraxMy neighbor Ted Geisel is fuming once again about the debate regarding more homes. This time it involved not just NIMBYs who don’t want to…2 min read·Jan 11, 2022----
push the needleGive West Seattle’s Lightrail Line to Aurora AvenueNobody likes it when someone looks a gift horse in the mouth.3 min read·Nov 9, 2021----
push the needleAdding Space and Cutting TapeRecently I was asked to present an article written for The Urbanist titled “Seattle has the Space” for the Surrey Board of Trade (SBOT)…11 min read·Sep 24, 2021----
push the needleHistoric Preservation of ExclusionIn 1961 locals watched the Seattle Hotel get torn down for a parking garage. The loss of this iconic building tugged at the emotions of…8 min read·Sep 2, 2021----