Seth Fleetwood for Mayor

I’m a little baffled by the claim that single family zoning is exclusionary and therefore racist. Zoning is a government police power and was always intended to be exclusionary. [...]

Whatcom Justice Reform: The Big Fib

A LITTLE BACKGROUND A proposed tax for a new jail has failed twice at the polls, the second failing by a ten times greater margin than the first. Yet the [...]

Of Broken Roads and Re-invented Wheels

I recently ran into Harry Skinner, long-time architect of some local reknown, now an octogenarian. His decades of design and planning experience have left him hard pressed to feel the [...]

"The City with (Almost) No Limitshttps://urbanland.uli.org/industry-sectors/city-almost-no-limits/“Imagine a boomtown of 2.1 million inhabitants that sprawls jaggedly over 600 square miles (1,600 sq km), but without a multicolored [...]

"I think these camps are a great transitional housing resource and thank Homes Now for their persistence and hard work.  However, I’m not sure that location is well [...]

"It is a very good idea to get your family and friends to sign up for this “further notice”.  These things have a habit of returning around holidays or [...]

"Spot on.  This MNAC castration, together with past planning director Vargas’ gutting of the neighborhood plans, abrogated more than thirty years of City guarantees of neighborhood integrity to homeowners [...]

"We use the Puget Sound as a sewer.  It is a cul de sac, and cannot “refresh” itself.  Everything we dump accumulates in the water column [...]