Evan Sexton
esexto.bsky.social
Evan Sexton
@esexto.bsky.social
Graduate student at @brownuniversity, occasional writer. Made in the Pacific Northwest.
Her target share as of yesterday was 55%. This is below that, so her target share for the rest should be higher.

Sawant’s old share would settled on Day 3, though Gonzalez got some movement on Day 4:
November 6, 2025 at 11:53 PM
The Comprehensive Plan is a difficult agenda item for all parties involved. Unfortunately, Councilmember Rivera's Amendment for the Bryant NC, #39, misses the mark.

This amendment removes parcels with already-existing apartment buildings, and replaces those parcels with the Ronald McDonald House.
September 11, 2025 at 12:54 AM
NIMBYs are unfortunately once again organizing to oppose housing in Seattle. Councilmembers should avoid unrepresentative samples of public opinion (like Change.org petitions and public comment) and look instead to scientific polling.

Seattleites want housing - even in their own neighborhoods:
June 23, 2025 at 1:18 AM
The driver is the land rent gradient, and whether it is steeper than general property value gradient. This is a graphical representation of the traditional model where the core is a premium:
June 8, 2025 at 4:04 PM
For additional context, here is Commerce's original language from 2023 (very clearly including trolley buses) versus their current language published in 2024 following feedback (including from OPCD):
May 8, 2025 at 4:55 PM
There does appear to be a discrepancy between the executive staff and legislative staff over whether "major transit stop" contains trolleybus lines or not. Central staff presented this map to council in the context of parking requirements (which use MTS, but with a 0.5 mi radius, rather than 0.25).
May 8, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Interestingly, this map includes trolley bus stops and ST Express stops.

The city previously indicated their view of HB 1110 was that these areas would not be included, with that map depicted below (this map includes non-NR areas that will be addressed in different legislation).
March 17, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Seattle has now released a map of Neighborhood Residential areas (shown here in purple) that will be exempted from parking requirements in the legislation required to be passed to comply with HB 1110:
March 17, 2025 at 6:12 PM
This is from OPCD's presentation on public comment for the March Growth Strategy (what is in your screenshot) versus the October 2024 release of zoning maps:
February 4, 2025 at 7:48 PM
There is some of this existing, and of course the new NR code does have a carve out specifically for future developments. This is the example from OPCD’s presentation on the stacked flats bonus.
January 8, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Including the Connected Communities Coalition's map of 6000+ square foot lots here. The majority of blocks, and essentially every neighborhood, have at least some parcels that are eligible for this stacked flat development without needing to purchase more than one lot.
January 8, 2025 at 1:52 AM
On the first source, you can cross-reference high-capacity transit with major transit with this map (they are mostly identical maps, but there are a couple of differences on the inclusion of future projects). The major transit is what applies to the TOD portion of HB 1110.
January 7, 2025 at 10:28 PM