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I want to highlight 4 processes happening right now in Seattle; each a fight for the future of a city, each an illustration of the perverse system we’ve built, where participation doesn't result in better outcomes. We’re left with Process, rather than results.
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In Capitol Hill, a green built affordable housing project is waylaid by a SEPA appeal by someone needing the ADA parking in the empty lot where the new building would stand. https://www.capitolhillseattle.com/2021/02/it-will-be-affordable-and-environmentally-innovative-but-heres-why-a-neighbor-is-fighting-plans-for-the-cross-laminated-timber-heartwood-apartments/
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A preservation group wants to put large swaths of Wallingford as a National Register of Historic Places, which would likely be grounds for a future local designation to restrict development.
http://bit.ly/3j8uiia
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http://bit.ly/3j8uiia
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The West Design Review Board mtg WED @ 5pm to review the Safeway and its 323 apartments and 300+ parking spaces. This project started in the Obama Administration, and now they’re dissecting brick colors at the street level.
https://www.theurbanist.org/2020/12/03/west-design-review-board-withholds-approval-for-323-homes-atop-queen-anne-safeway/
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https://www.theurbanist.org/2020/12/03/west-design-review-board-withholds-approval-for-323-homes-atop-queen-anne-safeway/
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Finally the death knell of the community driven Bicycle Master Plan as a real working framework to create a city-wide network, where the bureaucracy continues to prioritize autos over everything else.
https://www.seattlebikeblog.com/2021/02/01/proposed-modal-integration-policy-would-dismantle-the-bicycle-master-plan/
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https://www.seattlebikeblog.com/2021/02/01/proposed-modal-integration-policy-would-dismantle-the-bicycle-master-plan/
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In each case, the messy implementation of high minded values, often with significant community support, has circumvented the intent.
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