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Business and politics of Cascadia, the trans-border region in the Pacific Northwest bound by a common future. Alter ego of Brad Meacham. www.CascadiaReport.com
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Business and politics of Cascadia, an emerging region of the Pacific Northwest. British Columbia, Washington, Oregon. Vancouver, Seattle, Portland.
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Cascadia is going to continue drawing closer together. Here are some areas where we should focus: www.cascadiareport.com
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I was at the Market today to experience the street use pilot.
I’ve heard it described as a “street closure”, but it’s far from it.
I’ve never experienced the market feeling so open.
I’ve heard it described as a “street closure”, but it’s far from it.
I’ve never experienced the market feeling so open.
👉Starting Wednesday, April 23, vehicle traffic will be limited on Pike Place as part of a pilot program launched by the Pike Place Market PDA in partnership with SDOT, Mayor Bruce Harrell, and Councilmember Bob Kettle.
For full details on the limited-access pilot: PikePlaceMarket.org/Traffic
For full details on the limited-access pilot: PikePlaceMarket.org/Traffic
April 24, 2025 at 5:25 AM
I was at the Market today to experience the street use pilot.
I’ve heard it described as a “street closure”, but it’s far from it.
I’ve never experienced the market feeling so open.
I’ve heard it described as a “street closure”, but it’s far from it.
I’ve never experienced the market feeling so open.
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After 2 bike crashes in 1 week, we teamed up with Central Seattle Greenways to form a people-protected bike lane at 4th & Pine to raise awareness.
Just hours later, SDOT responded with concrete barriers.
This is what community power looks like. 💪
www.king5.com/article/news...
#UnGapTheMap
Just hours later, SDOT responded with concrete barriers.
This is what community power looks like. 💪
www.king5.com/article/news...
#UnGapTheMap
Seattle cyclists protest ‘dangerous’ bike lane design, prompt SDOT action
For frustrated cyclists, the intersection at Fourth and Pine in downtown Seattle has become a focal point for safety concerns.
www.king5.com
May 1, 2025 at 10:04 PM
After 2 bike crashes in 1 week, we teamed up with Central Seattle Greenways to form a people-protected bike lane at 4th & Pine to raise awareness.
Just hours later, SDOT responded with concrete barriers.
This is what community power looks like. 💪
www.king5.com/article/news...
#UnGapTheMap
Just hours later, SDOT responded with concrete barriers.
This is what community power looks like. 💪
www.king5.com/article/news...
#UnGapTheMap
Following the suggestions here: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
Mad at Meta? Don't Let Them Collect and Monetize Your Personal Data
If you’re fed up with Meta right now, you’re not alone. Meta tracks you across millions of websites and apps and its business model relies on your data. If you want to limit Meta’s ability to collect ...
www.eff.org
January 24, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Following the suggestions here: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
More of this, please, in SEA and PDX. (The new homes in urban neighborhoods, not the slow process.)
Nice to see 176 new homes with a sick shared rooftop in Kits. But jesus, nearly 9 months from rezoning application to public Q&A for something that the Broadway Plan is supposed to allow...
Rezoning: 2090 W 1st Ave. 20 storeys, 6.8 FSR, 176 units with 20% below-market, commercial at grade https://engagevancouver.ca.engagementhq.com/2090-w-1-ave
January 21, 2025 at 2:27 AM
More of this, please, in SEA and PDX. (The new homes in urban neighborhoods, not the slow process.)
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We just really believe more people should be able to live in our wonderful neighborhood, and that our neighborhood would benefit from more neighbors (for example - to help support our precious small businesses!)
Please consider signing and sharing!
actionnetwork.org/petitions/sa...
Please consider signing and sharing!
actionnetwork.org/petitions/sa...
Save the West Seattle Neighborhood Centers
Seattle is experiencing a crushing housing affordability crisis due to decades of insufficient building. The city’s draft comprehensive plan, which determines how the city will be allowed to grow over...
actionnetwork.org
January 20, 2025 at 11:33 PM
We just really believe more people should be able to live in our wonderful neighborhood, and that our neighborhood would benefit from more neighbors (for example - to help support our precious small businesses!)
Please consider signing and sharing!
actionnetwork.org/petitions/sa...
Please consider signing and sharing!
actionnetwork.org/petitions/sa...
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I calculated the walkshed of Mayor Harrell's corridor-based upzones and, folks, it's 35 seconds. Apparently, 40 seconds is too long for anyone to walk to a transit line and so density would never work there.
January 19, 2025 at 8:07 PM
I calculated the walkshed of Mayor Harrell's corridor-based upzones and, folks, it's 35 seconds. Apparently, 40 seconds is too long for anyone to walk to a transit line and so density would never work there.
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Seattle's Denny Triangle is a great example of how zoning promotes uniformity. Most of the neighborhood has a 440-foot height limit, which is tall, but lower than what the market demands, so builders build up to the limit.
January 14, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Seattle's Denny Triangle is a great example of how zoning promotes uniformity. Most of the neighborhood has a 440-foot height limit, which is tall, but lower than what the market demands, so builders build up to the limit.
Tragic. Safer streets for pedestrians in his memory, please. apple.news/AgLHK2i_ERre...
‘Profoundly kind’ Tacoma man who advocated for pedestrians fatally attacked in crosswalk — The News Tribune
Steven Bird was visually impaired and was crossing a street in Burien with a friend when a enraged driver allegedly assaulted them.
apple.news
January 14, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Tragic. Safer streets for pedestrians in his memory, please. apple.news/AgLHK2i_ERre...
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Allow more homes in denser cities:
✅Reduces GHG emissions and local air pollution
✅More affordability and choices (Housing+Transportation Index)
✅Inclusive, equitable communities
✅ Active, healthier residents
✅Save wetlands, farms and forests
#urbanism #cities
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✅Reduces GHG emissions and local air pollution
✅More affordability and choices (Housing+Transportation Index)
✅Inclusive, equitable communities
✅ Active, healthier residents
✅Save wetlands, farms and forests
#urbanism #cities
davidsuzuki.org/story/densit...
Density is a housing and climate solution for more inclusive communities
Cities have been designed to promote homogeneity in race, culture and socio-economic status. Against this backdrop, rezoning for increased density emerges not solely as a policy tool but as a unique o...
davidsuzuki.org
January 14, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Allow more homes in denser cities:
✅Reduces GHG emissions and local air pollution
✅More affordability and choices (Housing+Transportation Index)
✅Inclusive, equitable communities
✅ Active, healthier residents
✅Save wetlands, farms and forests
#urbanism #cities
davidsuzuki.org/story/densit...
✅Reduces GHG emissions and local air pollution
✅More affordability and choices (Housing+Transportation Index)
✅Inclusive, equitable communities
✅ Active, healthier residents
✅Save wetlands, farms and forests
#urbanism #cities
davidsuzuki.org/story/densit...
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Imagine if we tolled instead of expanded I-5; how many billions of dollars of lane widening could we avoid?
this is incredible stuff. most state DOTs would spend tens of billions on highway expansions to try and see numbers like this (that wouldn’t even pan out anyway thanks to induced demand lol)
January 14, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Imagine if we tolled instead of expanded I-5; how many billions of dollars of lane widening could we avoid?
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If Seattleites don't think wildfires of the magnitude we're seeing in BC, leaping over the wildland-urban interface like in LA, aren't a feature of our future, we are in denial. They are coming.
January 11, 2025 at 5:10 PM
If Seattleites don't think wildfires of the magnitude we're seeing in BC, leaping over the wildland-urban interface like in LA, aren't a feature of our future, we are in denial. They are coming.
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so where's the #WaLege bill to stop all new housing in the wildland urban interface?
because we're only a few years behind northern california on this as the cascades and olympics dry out.
because we're only a few years behind northern california on this as the cascades and olympics dry out.
January 9, 2025 at 11:28 PM
so where's the #WaLege bill to stop all new housing in the wildland urban interface?
because we're only a few years behind northern california on this as the cascades and olympics dry out.
because we're only a few years behind northern california on this as the cascades and olympics dry out.
Yes to this, 1000x. YVR-SEA-PDX and beyond. seattletransitblog.com/2025/01/07/a...
Amtrak Cascades’ Potential
Incremental upgrades to Amtrak Cascades would have a lot of benefits, including for Sounder, the Coast Starlight, and the Empire Builder. It could be done faster and cheaper than ultra high-speed r…
seattletransitblog.com
January 8, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Yes to this, 1000x. YVR-SEA-PDX and beyond. seattletransitblog.com/2025/01/07/a...
This is embarrassing. Council members seem ignorant or worse on housing policy. Rather than leading, the region's largest city may be forced by the state to act on housing. www.theurbanist.org/2025/01/07/m...
Moore Leads Housing Opposition in Seattle Council’s First Comprehensive Plan Meeting - The Urbanist
# As the Seattle City Council took its first look at Mayor Bruce Harrell's One Seattle Comprehensive Plan on Monday, Cathy Moore delivered a slow-growth manifesto, tinged with derision for renters, wh...
www.theurbanist.org
January 8, 2025 at 1:49 PM
This is embarrassing. Council members seem ignorant or worse on housing policy. Rather than leading, the region's largest city may be forced by the state to act on housing. www.theurbanist.org/2025/01/07/m...
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Dairy Queen's $2 Burgers Celebrate Trudeau's Resignation! Hey BC enjoy the Trudeau Tax break burger you’re not paying tax on that burger thanks to Trudeau!
January 8, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Dairy Queen's $2 Burgers Celebrate Trudeau's Resignation! Hey BC enjoy the Trudeau Tax break burger you’re not paying tax on that burger thanks to Trudeau!
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Let’s just say BC isn’t Justin Trudeau territory. Trudeau was even a drag on provincial NDP fortunes, during the last election.
#cdnpoli #bcpoli
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#cdnpoli #bcpoli
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January 6, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Let’s just say BC isn’t Justin Trudeau territory. Trudeau was even a drag on provincial NDP fortunes, during the last election.
#cdnpoli #bcpoli
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#cdnpoli #bcpoli
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New years 2025! We're starting the next leg of advocation with 23,700 people actively supporting the railway. Sign the petition and join everyone that will have an "I told you so" note in their back pocket for the future should the we lose the corridor to greed and/or impatience. chng.it/BMt69DqBXw
January 2, 2025 at 5:44 AM
New years 2025! We're starting the next leg of advocation with 23,700 people actively supporting the railway. Sign the petition and join everyone that will have an "I told you so" note in their back pocket for the future should the we lose the corridor to greed and/or impatience. chng.it/BMt69DqBXw
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Ferry company asking contractors for cost estimates on delivering LTE and 5G data coverage on routes and in terminals.
B.C. Ferries looks at upgrading internet for ships' crews
Ferry company asking contractors for cost estimates on delivering LTE and 5G data coverage on routes and in terminals.
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December 28, 2024 at 1:36 PM
Ferry company asking contractors for cost estimates on delivering LTE and 5G data coverage on routes and in terminals.
Read The Color of Law. It inspired me to look up the shameful history of my Seattle neighborhoods. We still have a lot of work to do. wwnorton.com/books/the-co...
December 20, 2024 at 1:05 PM
Read The Color of Law. It inspired me to look up the shameful history of my Seattle neighborhoods. We still have a lot of work to do. wwnorton.com/books/the-co...
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Congrats to Seattle's northern neighbor, Shoreline, for taking the first & most important step toward livable urbanism: scrapping parking mandates.
Kind of embarrassing that Seattle hasn't done it.
www.theurbanist.org/2024/12/18/s...
Kind of embarrassing that Seattle hasn't done it.
www.theurbanist.org/2024/12/18/s...
Shoreline Votes to Ditch Parking Mandates, Legalize Neighborhood Cafes and Stores - The Urbanist
# In approving a unanimous update to its Comprehensive Plan, the Shoreline City Council is set to go well beyond the minimum requirements of state law in pursuit of creating additional housing options...
www.theurbanist.org
December 19, 2024 at 6:34 PM
Congrats to Seattle's northern neighbor, Shoreline, for taking the first & most important step toward livable urbanism: scrapping parking mandates.
Kind of embarrassing that Seattle hasn't done it.
www.theurbanist.org/2024/12/18/s...
Kind of embarrassing that Seattle hasn't done it.
www.theurbanist.org/2024/12/18/s...
Good pep talk. www.seattletimes.com/business/boe...
Saving Boeing is the hardest job and biggest opportunity in business
With Boeing bleeding more than $4 billion in cash every three months, the scale of the challenge new CEO Kelly Ortberg faces is daunting.
www.seattletimes.com
December 8, 2024 at 5:12 PM
Good pep talk. www.seattletimes.com/business/boe...
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Point of interest: the cheapest you can rent a room in someone's house for (not even an apartment) in Denver is about $700. Currently, IF YOU CAN QUALIFY, disability gives you about $750 to live on. So yes, the extra $300 is the difference in being able to afford to live somewhere AND survive.
Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1k/month. A year later, nearly half had housing.
They also had fewer ER visits, nights spent in a hospital, and jail stays.
The report estimates that this reduction in public service use SAVED the city $589k.
www.businessinsider.com/denver-basic...
They also had fewer ER visits, nights spent in a hospital, and jail stays.
The report estimates that this reduction in public service use SAVED the city $589k.
www.businessinsider.com/denver-basic...
Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1,000 a month. A year later, nearly half of participants said they had housing.
Participants in Denver's basic-income program reported having more-secure housing, though results were similar in the trial and control groups.
www.businessinsider.com
December 6, 2024 at 7:40 PM
Point of interest: the cheapest you can rent a room in someone's house for (not even an apartment) in Denver is about $700. Currently, IF YOU CAN QUALIFY, disability gives you about $750 to live on. So yes, the extra $300 is the difference in being able to afford to live somewhere AND survive.
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At #VictoriaBC Council, we will soon be looking at allowing small-scale commercial in residential areas.
This is part of our OCP update: engage.victoria.ca/ocp
#yyj #urbanism
This is part of our OCP update: engage.victoria.ca/ocp
#yyj #urbanism
We should bring back corner retail, restaurants, and cafes in residential zones.
December 6, 2024 at 7:32 PM
At #VictoriaBC Council, we will soon be looking at allowing small-scale commercial in residential areas.
This is part of our OCP update: engage.victoria.ca/ocp
#yyj #urbanism
This is part of our OCP update: engage.victoria.ca/ocp
#yyj #urbanism