Many of you have written to me with your concerns about the proposed Seattle route restructure plan, scheduled to go into effect on September 30. King County Metro has just further refined this set of major changes on bus routes throughout the City, which were first presented to the public last November. The updated proposal, [...]
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February 2, 2012January 6, 2023News Releases
IIndustrial Development District (Aka Eco-Industrial District)
A partnership involving the City of Seattle, King County, the Port, and the State of Washington will soon issue a Request for Proposals (RFP) to seek innovative proposals for industrial development ideas that have been challenging to implement due to regulatory, policy, or financial issues. This is the first step in a project for adding [...]
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January 20, 2012January 6, 2023Councilmember Bagshaw
Parks and Neighborhoods Committee recap: Parks saves taxpayer money, Levy Oversight committee spends it wisely
We held the first meeting of the new Parks and Neighborhoods committee Thursday, January 19, 2012. See the meeting agenda. Our committee attendance was VERY small, due to icy conditions on the roads. I missed our usual crowd, but I’m glad people were wise and stayed warm and safe at home. One important note for [...]
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December 27, 2011January 6, 2023News Releases
Developing Housing on City Buildings
Historically, City Departments have been very possessive about their properties and buildings. It has been very challenging to even get Departments to coordinate with each other, much less to integrate the City’s properties and buildings into the fabric of neighborhoods in a proactive and positive way. Fortunately, this attitude is changing, and the City is [...]
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December 13, 2011January 6, 2023Councilmember Licata
UP #317 Roosevelt Neighborhood Rezone
As I mentioned in UP 317, as of Monday night (and this morning) the agenda for tomorrow’s COBE meeting, was not yet available for public review. Our Council rules state that: "All reasonable effort will be made to provide the preliminary agenda online and in hard copy at least two business days prior to the meeting." Further, the Open Public Meetings Act requires notice of a Council meeting 24 hours in advance. The concerns I raised this morning about proper notice identified this legal requirement and now has necessitated a last minute change in the meeting start time.
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November 7, 2011January 6, 2023News Releases
Let’s Make the Duwamish River the Center for a Sustainable City
Cities thrive when they integrate the vitality of urban life with their natural surroundings. That’s why so many of us live here and wouldn’t trade our access to Puget Sound, the Olympics, and Mount Rainier for anything. But at the heart of Seattle is a waterway that we turn our back on: the Duwamish River [...]
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November 3, 2011January 6, 2023News Releases
Land use in service of economic recovery
In my last blog, I talked about some of the goals I had in mind when I re-upped for two more years as chair of the Committee on the Built Environment, a term that is coming to an end this December. I wanted to look back on some of those goals and reflect on how [...]
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October 19, 2011January 6, 2023News Releases
District Energy a Key Step for the Climate and Our Economy
District energy systems are one of the most effective ways to provide affordable and clean energy for heating and hot water. Generating energy in a central location and distributing it to nearby areas is much more efficient than having separate heating units in each building. Seattle is one of the fortunate cities around the world [...]
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September 15, 2011January 6, 2023News Releases
Swedes Name Seattle as “Greenest City in North America’
The City of Växjö, Sweden has been named the ‘Greenest City in Europe’, and this week hosts the ‘Greenest Cities Worldwide’ 2011 Conference. Based on information from ICLEI, the International Organization of Local Governments for Sustainability, Växjö has identified and invited the greenest city from each of the other five continents to present at the [...]
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August 29, 2011January 6, 2023News Releases
Press Conference: Bullitt Center Groundbreaking
A groundbreaking celebration for the Bullitt Center, which is designed to be the greenest commercial building in the world. With solar panels generating as much energy as it needs in a year (in Seattle!), capturing rainwater for all water needs and treating all wastewater on site, the Bullitt Center goes far beyond a typical green building.