This afternoon the Council’s Committee on Economic Resiliency and Regional Relations will receive a report we commissioned on increasing job density without radically altering allowed land uses around the SODO light rail station. For those of you not familiar with the area or if you’ve been daydreaming whenever LINK stops at this under-used station, the [...]
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May 1, 2012January 6, 2023News Releases
Making the Business and Occupation Tax Work
Washington has a unique business tax system: businesses are taxed on their gross income (Business and Occupation Tax – B&O Tax), rather than their profits. There’s a statewide B&O Tax, and some 40 cities have local B&O Taxes. And there are three different ways that cities can charge this tax: on gross receipts (like the [...]
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April 30, 2012January 6, 2023Councilmember Licata
A Public Meeting on Cultural Space
Join me and Mayor Mike McGinn this Thursday, May 3rd, for a 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. lunch hour brown-bag presentation to be held in the Bertha Knight Landes Room at City Hall on arts and cultural space development initiatives for Seattle.
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April 23, 2012January 6, 2023Councilmember Licata
Giving Peace a Dance at the Center House
My fondest memory to date of Seattle Center is when it was the site of Seattle’s longest running 24-hour dance marathon: Give Peace a Dance.
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April 19, 2012January 6, 2023News Releases
Peoples Greenstreet Project on South Orcas
On a day of driving rain and snow in March, which perfectly demonstrated the effectiveness of the project, a hardy gathering of neighbors, design professionals, and city and county staff celebrated the official opening of the South Orcas Greenstreet project. The South Orcas Greenstreet is an innovative, community-driven natural drainage project developed by Cari Simson, [...]
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April 17, 2012January 6, 2023News Releases
Sustainability on Seattle’s College Campuses
I once wrote an editorial for the UW Daily that somehow connected a squirrel carcass that I cycled by every day on my way back and forth from campus to the need for greater recycling. Institutional and devoted recycling was still a new-ish thing. Critics said there’d be added costs and the confusion of how [...]
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April 16, 2012January 6, 2023Councilmember Licata
ONE Against Extreme Poverty
Recently, I was asked to be interviewed for a public policy video aimed at President Obama and other world leaders ahead of next month's G8 Summit. The message? US foreign aid investments are working and extreme poverty needs to remain on the global agenda.
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April 11, 2012January 6, 2023Councilmember Licata
King County Health Inequities Trends
Economic development and policy changes are tools policymakers can to use to improve health. But to make a difference, we really need to do things differently.
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April 10, 2012January 6, 2023News Releases
Cities to Protect Rural Land Under TDR Program
The Puget Sound Regional Council (PSRC) has approved a resolution that will engage cities in a Transfer of Development Rights (TDR) program to protect rural lands in King, Pierce, and Snohomish Counties. Under this program, counties would buy the right to develop from landowners, thus ensuring that those lands will remain as farmland or other [...]
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April 4, 2012January 6, 2023Councilmember Licata
How Should We Use Housing Levy Funds?
Some low income housing advocates have concerns about too many housing levy funds being used for the redevelopment of Yesler Terrace