Matt Hutchins AIA CPHD

You do great work! Thank you for your commitment and craft!

Oh okay that’s way better.

Is CM Strauss nude?

Intermittent parking on both sides. In neighborhood centers, the goal should be street level pedestrian commerce and place making. Car level of service should be ‘F’

I would remove two lanes, remove 1/2 the parking, make the other half 30 min/loading, add 12’ to each sidewalk for cafes and plant 2 rows of street trees.

I see opportunity for stacked flats in NR. It will come when you have the right site, right neighborhood, and aligned development goals. We've already proved the housing type works with our Manito sixplex, which has both workforce and market leading rents.

www.theurbanist.org/2025/10/03/s...

This coin dates the end of the republic

congrats!!! beautiful!

OMG, can Harrell point to one policy that required a spine that he went all in on?

Have you considered city planning?

What I imagine it will feel like next year when I roll off the Seattle Planning Commission.

Dinner

Greeting from Democratic hellhole Seattle! Antifa meeting or a magnificent dinner with friends on a crystal clear fall evening?!?

this plan is missing en suite bathrooms for every bedroom and massive walk-in closets.

Seattle Narrows Down Options for Initial ‘Low Pollution Neighborhoods’ » The Urbanist # The Seattle Department of Transportation is eyeing seven neighborhoods with high rates of pollution, low car ownership rates, and high collision intersections, such as South Park, Lake City, and Cap...

they just presented to the Planning Commission, and It is years away from any implementation....

www.theurbanist.org/2025/09/17/s...

Face in hands

This is why I’ve been trying to reform design review for a decade and generally oppose more new city regs. This isn’t benign bureaucracy—it ossifies into a tool for capricious delay and to extract reductions in dev capacity.

It’s only foundations at this point

Yes, we’ll see way more of those!

two ADUs attached to each other, in the backyard. It has only been legal in seattle for about 3 months.

Saw my first ADU duplex today in the wild. There are going to be a few of those under the latest iteration of the zoning

Did Brittney singlehanded change the course of Mariners history? I think so!

30% Tariff on Upholstered Furniture?

10 bucks says he is just naming items in his office.

Soon, 40% tariffs on Lamp.

i can't believe the USA is getting torn apart by someone who needs two hands to drink a glass of water.

5 takeaways from Harvard’s Unlocking the Missing Middle housing report The university’s Joint Center for Housing Studies is examining “missing middle” housing in Massachusetts.

The US has a national housing shortage and some advocates credit the problem to a lack of “middle” housing — duplexes, townhomes and small dwellings that fall between single-family homes and apartment buildings. Our new series examines the missing middle.

www.smartcitiesdive.com/news/housing...

Trump is an idiot

Oh no! Now my achy back has autism

It is about 5-10% of our new housing unit production, or about 750 a year. Agree not the solution, but part of the solution-never would every site flip to max multifamily development. Gateway drug to break down hegemony of Single Family Detached.

2015: Mayor Murray touched the stove with HALA recommendations to eliminate single-family zoning (bonus historical Harrell quote!)

2025: We can build 4-story 12-unit stacked flats in NR zones, 75% more lot coverage, 2X the size, without parking.

It is actually surprising just how far we were able to move the Overton window in the last decade. In 2016, single family detached zoning was the third rail of Seattle politics, and next year we'll be able to build effectively LR2+ equivalent multifamily anywhere.

City's Growth Plan Update Maintains Seattle's Suburban Character, Including Mandatory Parking - PubliCola By Erica C. Barnett A process that started with a year-long delay ended in a cascade of votes on more…

City's Growth Plan Update Maintains Seattle's Suburban Character, Including Mandatory Parking

The council's changes mostly doubled down on Mayor Bruce Harrell's slow-growth plan, which advocates criticized for failing to address Seattle's housing crisis.
publicola.com/2025/09/22/c...

parcel viewer of parisian block

once you see it, you can't unsee it

also - despite claims otherwise...

point access blocks and fine grained urbanism go hand in hand.

this is more parcels per block than a streetcar suburb in the US