Politics
You can fight City Hall
Of course, you might not win. Dennis Saxman, a self-described thorn in the side of Seattle officials, has just lost one battle involving the design review process — and he's launched another.
Peggy Sturdivant
Peggy Sturdivant writes a weekly column for the Westside Weekly, and is curator of the It's About Time Writers Reading Series, founder of Ballard Writers Collective, and has worked in environmental co
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The best-laid plans: How neighborhoods have fared
Chapter 5: Few citizens will read a 170-page auditor's report on how well decade-old neighborhood plans have been implemented. But it should be required reading for the mayor and City Council. Bottom line: The plans have had some good consequences, but City Hall has lost interest.
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There's sudden movement in updating Seattle neighborhood plans
I've been tracking the City of Seattle's proposal to update the neighborhood plans since March in the series There Go the Neighborhoods [/authors/peggy-sturdivant/]. You wouldn't think I'd be caught unawares before the only currently scheduled public hearing before City Council's Planning, Land Use,
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How light rail drives Seattle neighborhood planning
Chapter 6: After a year of discussion on updating neighborhood plans, the City of Seattle saw the light. That would be the approaching beam of light rail in the first three neighborhoods.
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Seattle, it's lonely at the top of the real estate market
Does rating higher than the rest of the country really make Seattle the top real estate market?