Today, Thursday, June 28, the Sound Transit Board unanimously approved my motion to create a new access strategy for the Northgate light rail station. This motion is the first effort to implement the new Sound Transit Board’s policy direction that emphasizes developing a variety of access modes to get riders to Sound Transit stations. It [...]
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June 26, 2012January 6, 2023News Releases
Industrial Jobs Coming Back to Seattle
Seattle’s long range strategy for encouraging manufacturing is paying off, as Forbes magazine, in a recent article, rated the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue Metropolitan Area as the top area for manufacturing growth in the nation over the last five years. Manufacturing employment is growing around the country, as industries realize the opportunity for ‘reshoring’ industrial activity. Much of [...]
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June 19, 2012January 6, 2023News Releases
Water for Seattle’s Future
Seattle Public Utilities has developed an updated water plan covering 2013-2018, with some analysis and projection for future years as far out as 2060. It’s a good news plan, demonstrating that Seattle’s commitment to water conservation has been extraordinarily successful, and projecting continued success in the future. The bottom line is that total average demand [...]
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June 14, 2012January 6, 2023News Releases
Making the University District Work
The City is embarking on a three year program to support investment in the University District. With construction of light rail from Husky Stadium to Northgate about to break ground, the U District is poised to take a major step forward as an Urban Center, and the City initiative is designed to help make that [...]
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June 12, 2012January 6, 2023News Releases
Earthquake Lessons from Chile
Last month I was one of 40 Seattle business, government, labor, and academic leaders on a study mission to Santiago and Valparaiso, Chile.* One of my major reasons for going was to identify lessons from the recent Chilean experience with a major earthquake. Chile, like Seattle, is on the Pacific Rim of Fire. In February, [...]
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June 6, 2012January 6, 2023News Releases
How Your Property Taxes Will Pay for the New Arena
Seattle property owners will actually fund about $15 million of the City’s proposed $120 million investment in the proposed basketball/hockey arena to be developed south of Safeco Field, even though publicity for the project has suggested that repayment of this investment will come entirely from revenues associated with the arena, not taxpayers, and, further, that [...]
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May 31, 2012January 6, 2023News Releases
Clean Water Consent Decree
Seattle and the US Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) have completed negotiations on a historic consent decree that opens the door for a more thoughtful and effective approach to promoting clean water in Seattle and Puget Sound. The Council is now reviewing this decree, and will vote on whether to endorse it in the near future. [...]
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May 29, 2012January 6, 2023News Releases
Walmart, SEPA, and Neighborhoods
Walmart (photo from Wikipedia) The Council is working on changes to the way the City implements the State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA) in the regulatory reform legislation now under consideration. The goal of this component of the legislation is to encourage development in areas that the City has identified for future growth by eliminating redundant [...]
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May 24, 2012January 6, 2023News Releases
Sound Transit TOD and Parking Policies
As I noted in an earlier post, the Sound Transit Board held a retreat in April, primarily to discuss parking policies and valuing transit oriented development (TOD). My goal was to change Sound Transit’s perspective on these issues, and to get the Board to agree to revise long-standing policies that encouraged Sound Transit (ST) to [...]
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May 22, 2012January 6, 2023News Releases
Seawall Funding Plan Moving Forward
The City Council has begun the process for placing a 30-year property tax bond measure on the November ballot to complete the financing package for the Seawall replacement and strengthening. The Council must make a decision by July in order to place this measure on the ballot. The City has been working for almost ten [...]