September 13th, 2010
On Monday evening, Monday September 20, 2010, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., I will host an event called Can We Achieve Social Equity Using Smart Growth? It will be held in the Seattle City Council Chambers located on the Second floor of City Hall, 600 Fourth Avenue, in downtown Seattle.
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Posted: September 13th, 2010 under
Development and Sustainability,
Housing,
Human Services and Health,
Neighborhoods,
Planning and Land Use,
UP.
Tags:
Construction and Land Use (DCLU),
Land Use Code,
low-income housing,
Neighborhoods,
Rental Housing,
UP
September 17th, 2003
The City, under the Mayor’s guidance, has set upon a course of attracting biotech industries to Seattle and to the South Lake Union neighborhood in particular. With Seattle’s unemployment rate being one of the highest in the nation for a major urban area, pursuing this industry appears to be a “no-brainer”.
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Posted: September 17th, 2003 under
Budget and Economic Development,
Human Services and Health,
Planning and Land Use,
Technology,
UP.
Tags:
biotech industries,
Budget and Economic Development,
Construction and Land Use (DCLU),
Department of Design,
Finance,
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center,
Labor Committee,
Land Use Code,
Land Use Committee,
South Lake Union,
unemployment rate,
UP
July 6th, 2003
The Department of Design, Construction and Land Use (DCLU) has proposed amendments to the Seattle Municipal Code to establish the permit approval process for monorail transit facilities that will be necessary to support the establishment and operation of a monorail transit system. The proposal allows heights of monorail stations to be up to 65 feet.
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May 25th, 2003
Since being on the City Council I have taken an active interest in trying to get the city to promote more opportunities for Seattle’s artists to remain in the city and not be pushed out by higher housing costs. There are a number of different strategies to accomplish that goal. Aside from direct funding for low-income housing that is available for artists who need live/work space, there is also the strategy of changing our Land Use Code to better accommodate these opportunities.
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November 5th, 2001
Today the City Council took two important votes that will impact the future landscape of our city. The first was a vote on Council Bill 113697 that would amend our SEPA ordinance to narrow view protections of the Seattle Space Needle to ten parks. The other Council Bill 113818 amended the land use and zoning sections of the Municipal Code to allow developers to provide off-site parking (that is, parking provided on a different lot than the lot containing the use for which the parking is required) by a permit process.
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Posted: November 5th, 2001 under
Government,
Parks,
Planning and Land Use,
UP.
Tags:
Construction and Land Use (DCLU),
Denny Triangle,
Four Columns Park,
Land Use Code,
parking,
Pike-Pine Neighborhood,
Rental Housing,
Space Needle,
State Environmental Protection Act (SEPA),
Strategic Planning Office (SPO),
UP,
view protection,
zoning
February 26th, 2001
Last week the City Council passed (7 – 0) Council Bill 113156 amending the Land Use Code to allow lighting standards up to 100 feet for public school playfield lighting. The actual placement of the standards would still be subject to SEPA review or subject to special conditions imposed upon their use in the four high school athletic complexes improved through the February 1988 Levy. Current laws limit lighting in existing public school sites to 30 or 35 feet in residential zones.
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Posted: February 26th, 2001 under
Neighborhoods,
Planning and Land Use,
UP.
Tags:
Construction and Land Use (DCLU),
Department of Design,
Land Use Code,
lighting,
Lighting Standards,
Neighborhoods,
Public Schools,
State Environmental Protection Act (SEPA),
UP
July 6th, 1999
The Culture, Arts and Parks Committee (CAP) will hold a public hearing on the Arboretum-Lakeside Trail on Wednesday, July 21 at 5:30 p.m. in the City Council Chambers, located in the Municipal Building at 600 4th Avenue.
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Posted: July 6th, 1999 under
Environment,
Housing,
Neighborhoods,
Parks,
Planning and Land Use,
Public Safety,
UP.
Tags:
Arboretum,
Construction and Land Use (DCLU),
Councilmanic,
Discovery Park,
Environmental Impact Statement (EIS),
housing code inspections,
Land Use Code,
Parks Department,
Seattle Center,
UP,
Washington Park Arboretum
May 13th, 1999
For those of you who want to track issues that I have been writing about in Urban Politics, we now have a UP subject index posted on the web. There’s a link to it here. All of the past issues of UP are listed with the exception of UP #1, which probably less than 200 people received. This was my first attempt (in September 1996) at communicating with citizens through the internet and it may not even labeled as UP Issue #1. It dealt the City’s transfer of the Freeway Park Garage to the Washington State Convention Center. If anyone has a copy of it, please let me know. I’d like to add it to our index. Thank you.
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Posted: May 13th, 1999 under
Budget and Economic Development,
Government,
Housing,
Parks,
Planning and Land Use,
UP.
Tags:
Construction and Land Use (DCLU),
Homeless Programs,
Land Use Code,
low-income housing,
Opera House,
Parks,
Parks Enhanced Code Enforcement Ordinance,
Rental Housing Inspection Program (RHIP),
Seattle Center/ Community Center Levy,
Seattle Parks and Recreation,
UP
November 30th, 1998
The State of Washington authorizes local jurisdictions to require the payment of relocation assistance of up to $2,000 adjusted annually to low-income tenants who are displaced from dwelling units by housing demolition, change of use, substantial rehabilitation or removal of use restrictions from assisted housing.
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