A couple months ago we had a long debate at city council about our tree code, which was (and still is, even after the updates) needlessly complicated. So, naturally I had to write a blog post about it.

A while back, I went down a rabbit hole in our land use code's requirements on "Design and Architectural Standards." It was so absurd that I had to write this article as a coping mechanism. I also dug into the history of where these standards came from (tl;dr: it was a reaction to this BRIGHT BLUE)

I started a new Substack about Cascadian Abundance! Shoutout to Prof. Steven Teles of the @niskanencenter.bsky.social for putting this term into the zeitgeist. Looking forward to lots of generative discussions & debates! cascadianabundance.substack.com/p/what-is-ca...