Katie Lorah

This Friday 3-7 -we’re gettin weird in the street in Downtown Ridgecrest for Park(ing) Day!
After, we’ll pack it in and head to the pub to celebrate one year of Urbanist Shoreline 😅

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Shoreline Mayor @electroberts.bsky.social signs the ordinance eliminating parking minimums in new developments citywide.

A huge win for housing affordability, climate, walkability, business & more!

Great to see so many residents speaking in favor, and a nice reminder that we CAN HAVE nice things!

That is one SLEEK looking zoning code 💅

A good and reasonable thing happened today 👑

Policies that reduce driving are the best climate policies. Creative ideation is fine, but let’s double down on what we already know works

Working hard over here to rebrand “road diet” (restrictive, subtractive) as “safety fattening” (abundant, additive) please help!

We’ll be talking street design and pedestrian safety in North City tomorrow night - come thru!

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Do your friends’ eyes not light up when you talk about transit, or parking minimums, or form based code? Sounds like you should come find some new friends www.eventbrite.com/e/may-north-...

Fellow bike and local produce guy @smart-ass-dave.bsky.social and I will be parkin’ bikes all summer long at the Shoreline Farmers Market and we need help!

Honestly, find me a chiller and more pleasant volunteer opportunity. I bet you can’t.

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Come hang w US at Ridgecrest Pub on Tuesday 4/29!

Happy hour at 7, optional casual convo about messaging for urbanist issues beforehand at 6. Meet some cool fun nerds.
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Beautiful @masonthompson.bsky.social you do not mess around 🙌

If we have to stand on the side of a highway as visible political support for much-needed and voter-approved public transit investments then that’s what we’ll do! LESS FUSS MORE BUS.

Supporters hold signs at a bus stop. One reads Less Fuss More Bus

More folks with signs. Public transit equals climate justice

Woman in a wheelchair holds sign supporting bus rapid transit

Up in Lake Forest Park this morning with transit advocates to support completion of Sound Transit's Stride bus rapid transit project along Bothell Way.

The project is facing a legal threat from opponents in LFP that could add years of delay.

Then onto Shoreline’s Hands Off rally - great turnout and good vibes.
Still getting used to the suburban rally modality of standing on a corner and having cars honk approvingly at you. Next time can we at least take the street??

And yes, we had counterprotesters! “Environmental Justice - No BRT!” is a real head scratcher but ok 🤷‍♀️

Lovely day to support better public transit for Seattle, Shoreline, Lake Forest Park, Kenmore and Bothell!
👉 Lfp4brt.org

Thanks to @transpochoices.bsky.social and @ceceliablack.bsky.social of Disability Rights Wa for speaking out in support!
LESS FUSS MORE BUS!

A bunch of folks with signs saying things like “Less fuss More bus!” and Lake Forest Park for Bus Rapid Transit, gathered to protest at a bus stop.

Not one of Indivisible’s rallies, but we want hands off our public transit.

Hey man I just want more bus

Sat, April 5, 10:30-11:30 am
Corner of Bothell Way and 165th
More about the project:
Lfp4brt.org
It’s gonna be a beautiful day!

Lots of important stuff happening tomorrow, April 5, but if you’re free at 10:30am we’ll be showing up w signs and chants to support the Stride S3 Bus Rapid Transit project that some locals in LFP have been threatening to sue to stop.

this is insane: Washington state is basically doing reverse congestion pricing, taxing sustainable/efficient forms of transportation to subsidize pointless highway widenings.

and this is a state with a democratic trifecta! what is going on here

More kinds of housing would help Seattle residents age in place | Op-Ed Seattle should make changes in zoning and housing policies that allow for increased density and different types of homes in more neighborhoods.

Housing advocacy often reflects a generational rift. But @marciapeterson.bsky.social explains why more housing options will benefit all ages www.seattletimes.com/opinion/more...

More kinds of housing would help Seattle residents age in place | Op-Ed Seattle should make changes in zoning and housing policies that allow for increased density and different types of homes in more neighborhoods.

Awesome to see @marciapeterson.bsky.social back in print with an appeal to her fellow boomer homeowners on why they should be pro-housing 💪💥

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Can someone build a bigger brewery, too many urbanists around here
💚 u @theurbanist.org and everyone who came out, this was fun, let’s do it at least once a week

This is the only definition of fame I can support

Learned so much at our first Urbanist Book Jam - like a book club but instead of everyone reading the same book, you talk about a book you like and why we should like it too. Hang out, get smarter, meet some cool people.

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Don’t forget to come hang out on Saturday evening w @theurbanist.org and a bunch of awesome folks who are making our north sound communities more liveable! Coolest thing to ever happen in Mountlake Terrace? Possibly! www.eventbrite.com/e/north-soun...

so good!!!

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with all the debate around housing & trees in seattle... i got together w/ a bunch of friends (@analogist.net, @shirleyswirley.bsky.social, francesca and @justinoaksford.bsky.social) to put together an explainer on how we can maximize both. still in progress...

enjoy!

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Kicking off our book club w a crowd pleaser. Come hang out and talk Happy City! (Read the book, or listen to a podcast, or watch a YouTube video… low barrier book club folks, brains are full rn)
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