Dan Bloemker

zine showing how side yard setbacks are bad news for trees.

this is incredible. lalali chan and @houseourneighbors.bsky.social produced a zine based on slides from a presentation i did on why setbacks make for terrible neighborhoods and cities with less space for trees.

it's perfect

Straight to jail.

That's in the cited report.

KOMO comments are a plague.

Graphic showing all the many costs of suburban brawl, explaining how many costs are hidden and indirect costs, and sharing stats and data. Prepared by the Sustainable Prosperity Institute.

Suburban Sprawl may seem cheap, but even the costs we CAN count are far too high, and we ALL pay them.

HT Smart Prosperity Institute #UrbanTruth institute.smartprosperity.ca/library/publ...

Glad to see WSDOT going with what’s obviously the best option here.

wsdotblog.blogspot.com/2026/02/judk...

Honestly kind of funny considering my city's just beginning replacement for some pipes that are from the 19th century.

Also removed standard harmonization from the smaller elevator bill.

That seems like a problem.

We've taken the 50 to Seward but it's not the easiest trip from where we are.

Absolute loser behavior by a city.

Once again I must pose the question:

Why does Bellevue, the bigger city, not simply eat Medina, the smaller city?

Using detailed address-level microdata, we trace movement chains originating with the initial residents of The Central and document three main findings. First, we show the building generated a substantial number of local vacancies. We identify 180 specific addresses that became vacant because of moves into The Central. Scaling to account for data coverage suggests the new tower induced more than 500 local vacancies in the three years after construction, by setting off chains of moves. Second, while The Central units were expensive on a per-square-foot basis, the homes vacated by movers were significantly cheaper. Homes left behind by those moving into The Central were about 40% less expensive. Unlike much of the prior literature, which track the changing neighborhood characteristics of movers

Even more evidence that building new housing decreases rents: Researchers tracked the residents of a newly built luxury condo building and found that they freed up less expensive apartments nearby.
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Honestly it took like 7 mins to unload the hundreds of cyclists. One more lane was almost necessary.

I mean, I consider myself an urbanist, and my biggest wish is just to see your theory tested. Let's scrap the zoning rules that enforce low density, apply utilities and other fees in proportion to cost to service by property type and then let the market sort it out.

Ask him what CCA stands for and if the words general fund supplement is in there anywhere?

So many cyclists heading over to Bainbridge for Chilly Hilly!

Sound Transit 2 Line simulated service test train crossing lake Washington with Bellevue, WA in the background.

Better things are possible, and they're possible today.

Yielding to NIMBYs almost always means they take that as an early victory to double their efforts against progress. We should not give in to bad policy to simply find a "middle ground"

When they say "millions" here, they mean over $100M!

Together these awards totaled to:

Wilmington Safe Streets: $32M
Skid Row Connectivity Project: $39M
Boyle Heights Connectivity Project: $32M

(it's notable that the motion omits the embarrassing total)

When will we see these making ticketed runs here?

There's a national media event unveiling our new Amtrak Cascades trains in DC today. Here are some photos for you to enjoy! The Cafe Car is even stocked with our PNW favorites.

This right here is why furnaces in California are asinine, they should only be #2wayAC aka #heatpump.

Although y'all in CA need to get your rates under control!

Go try your city and post it in the thread! www.natethehousewhisperer.com/how-much-of-....

Suppose it's not surprising that those who are present on the street in their community are those who are there for their community. Really why we should support more of these efforts.

#nfl #NFL #nflmemes #Seahawks #Patriots #Superbowl #BadBunny

Highlighting the new park in my neighborhood that has two (2) parking spaces but lots of bike parking, added bike lanes on the street and three axis of pedestrian access. Storybrook Park opens Feb 15th!!

Ridership on Seattle's Link Light Rail continues rising amid the system's many expansions, helping Seattle have the strongest year-on-year ridership growth of any major metro area in 2025!

Link ridership rose more than 27% in 2025, and its two lines will be connected in March!

I thought I was being punked when someone told me about this. Just kneecapping our state infrastructure for no reason.