Seattle Public Utilities (SPU) has completed its evaluation of the One Less Truck Pilot Project, which evaluates reducing the number of trucks in our neighborhoods by moving to every-other-week garbage pickup. One Less Truck would save ratepayers up to $5-6 million per year, reduce traffic and encourage recycling and composting. SPU has learned that implementing […]
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Seattle Deep Green Pilot Program gives Stone34 green light
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The City Council today voted unanimously to approve an ordinance to amend the Living Building Pilot Project in order to facilitate and encourage developments that strive to meet the highest level of sustainable design.
City Council Unanimously Reconfirms Jorge Carrasco
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By a vote of 8-0, the Seattle City Council today reconfirmed Jorge Carrasco for another four years as Seattle City Light superintendent. Mayor McGinn submitted the superintendent’s reconfirmation legislation in early June.
Council Stabilizes City Light Finances
In March 2010, the City Council approved legislation creating a Rate Stabilization Account (RSA) for Seattle City Light, and imposed a temporary surcharge on city Light rates as part of the funding package for the RSA. In the year since then, the RSA has been fully funded to its projected level of $100 million, the [...]