We are afraid that the quality of life of Seattle single-family neighborhoods will be destroyed. Edward Alan Clark I just heard the most asinine comment in a KUOW discussion about why single-family home owners don’t want duplexes and triplexes built next to them: ‘they think it will [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Housing Market’
July 18th, 2015 - 8:22 am § in Misc., The Ave Scene
Ed Clark: A Dialog about Seattle and Neighborhoods
July 17th, 2015 - 10:10 am § in Misc., The Ave Scene
THE Ave Scene: Seattle’s OTHER Tunnel .. burying I-5!
This rendering shows proposed 5-story exhibition facility, seen from Ninth Avenue and Pine Street, looking north. (LMN Architects) The plan extends the existing lid over I-5 .. maybe we can bury the whole thing block by block? SEATTLE TIMES: $1.4 billion plan in works to double Convention Cente[...]
July 17th, 2015 - 6:52 am § in The Ave Scene
Seattle Rent Control Debate: 5 questions for Monday night
This looks like a good debate. Steinbrueck is a good choice as a moderator as he is informed and moderate. My only concern is that Peter may not have the skills to control demagoguery or an overly partisan crowd. The sponsors could easily have gone to one of the media stations or even to the UW [[...]
July 16th, 2015 - 7:00 am § in Misc.
ED Clark ON HALA (Seattle’s new zoning proposal)
(FACEBOOK) The newly proposed HALA up zoning plan will destroy Seattle’s way of life, and in particular take the future of our wonderful neighborhoods out of the hands of neighborhoods. I live in Madison Valley, and I see places all over it where higher buildings and denser housing will be ok[...]
July 15th, 2015 - 10:16 am § in Misc.
The Stranger’s Wierd Endorment of Kshama Sawant (emphasis added)
Council District No. 3 Kshama Sawant Kshama Sawant KELLY O Comrades! Let us take another step forward in the righteous, people-powered, scent-free struggle to overthrow the greedy capitalists and create a Socialist utopia on Puget Sound, a place where a giant state apparatus will ensure that you hav[...]
July 15th, 2015 - 9:57 am § in Misc.
Seattle City Council Race goes national!
First Kshama Sawant took her campaign to the lace curtain liberals who celebrate Marxism in New York. She brought back something like $50,000 from unions and law firms with no obvious reason to care about pot holes on 23rd or the loss of Black people form Seattle. Now national realtors gave [...]
July 15th, 2015 - 8:36 am § in Misc.
Why Seattle needs a linkage fee on new lux housing.
Developers here in Seattle argue that the new high priced housing being built here will enlarge the market and drive down prices for more affordable housing. That trickle down effect is obviously not happening. An OpEd editorial in the SF Examiner may explain why this happens even when SF[...]
July 13th, 2015 - 2:30 pm § in Misc.
Sawant: Cut off Their Heads
As usual, today Kshama Sawant blew her stack after the Mayor and Seattle City Council reached an agreement to address the need for zoning reform. The focus of the Mayor and the Council , as usual, is on finding ways to use development to enhance rather than destroy our existing neighborhoods. [...]
July 13th, 2015 - 8:45 am § in Misc.
Josh Feit Pontificates on Single Family Housing
PUBLICOLA I presume that the intent of the person who leaked the draft to the Seattle Times was to sabotage the idea by outing it to an anticipated chorus of uniform boos. There’s some telling symbolism in their evident misread of the situation on the ground. The people who are intent on preservin[...]
July 12th, 2015 - 8:02 am § in The Ave Scene
I support RATIONAL Linkage Fees
Among Sawant Kshama’s catch phrase demagoguery is the term “linkage fees.” This is a tax on new construction .. presumably to be used ot pay for creating the housing projects she wants to build for the poor. Sounds good? Perhaps until you read the numbers. The linkage fee s[...]