Connor Stein

@wilsonforseattle.bsky.social and your team …. We continue to get a lot of messages saying “we don’t feel like anything is happening differently under Wilson than happened under Harrell”. It is very concerning that so many people feel disappointed in us for championing you.

I just saw this on an old episode of This Old House. Tom Silva used a wadded up paper bag so it would disintegrate on the roof, spreading the salt around.

Someone who's owned a house for decades and demands their block be preserved in amber for all time vs. someone staring down displacement for lack of workable housing options...these are not equally valid viewpoints. They are not! It's greed and selfishness vs. meeting a basic human need.

Six floors
Single stair
Stacked flats
Social Housing

Surfaces? Permeable
Side setbacks? None

Someone help me continue the alliteration.

Quirindongo needs to go if he considers this a good timeline. Wilson needs to make good on her campaign promises. She's been acting with much less urgency out of the gate than I, and I think many others, anticipated.

*concentration camps

I used to think this but now I think they just viscerally hate renters and consider us an underclass not worthy of being their neighbor.

Very cool, thanks for sharing!

That sounds wonderful! Is there a group that you're involved with that is advocating for these changes? I'd love to participate.

Little stretch of 35th in Fremont?

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Following for urbanist recs in Seoul, as I'll be going in May

A child on a bicycle in front of an oversized pickup truck. Their head is below the hood line.

These ridiculously oversized single occupancy pickup trucks should be heavily taxed due to their danger to society, degradation of the road surfaces, and destruction of our livable planet. They are unnecessary and rarely tow, haul, or go off-road. #Trucks #PickupTruck

The rendering does not capture the way that building meets grade at all lmao

Outlook for the new year ...

Hear me out. What if we taxed rich people to fund education so people didn't need to take out insane loans? And also used that revenue to forgive existing loans?

I took that to mean they are cozy with electeds, not department staff.

That one has been on the market for almost a year. I toured both developments, and the build quality wasn't great. Similar finishes and quality to the 5-over-1 I live in but costs around $800k.

Interesting to see MRN on that design review proposal. They have a couple of developments in Fremont that have been sitting forever. 8 home project on 35th that has 1 home left but has been on the market for over a year and a 6 or 7 home development on Linden that hasn't sold a single home yet.

Let's do Seattle next

Sure, it looks prettier but it does nothing to facilitate any substantial modal shift. If we're going through all the effort and disruption to rework the ROW, why would we turn around and give every lane back to cars?

dads only want one thing for the holidays - and it's car-light/free ecodistricts w/ abundant single stair + mass timber + passivhaus social and non-market housing, open space and a high quality public realm, space for nature and climate adaptation, with coffee shops & bars & places to play petanque

150 du/acre would net 2700 homes on this property. There's an opportunity to add A LOT of homes here even after accounting for daylighting the creek and whatever stormwater infra SPU is imagining.

City of Seattle Purchases 18-Acre Laurelhurst Property, Scuttling Sprawl Plans » The Urbanist # The $64 million sale of the hotly contested Talaris property in Laurelhurst surprised housing advocates who had long been fighting sprawl and pushing for a more forward-thinking urban vision. But wi...

oooh oooh i have some thoughts on this...

1. abundant social housing
2. space for baugruppen and coops
3. a mixed use car-free ecodistrict w/ abundant open space and high quality public realm demonstrating what climate forward neighborhoods should do

www.theurbanist.org/2025/12/24/s...

One of the biggest microplastic pollution sources isn’t straws or grocery bags – it’s your tires Every few years, the tires on your car wear thin and need to be replaced. But where does that lost tire material go? The answer, unfortunately, is often waterways, where the tiny microplastic particle...

It's funny IMO that Berkeley, California was one of very first jurisdictions to ban straws/plastic bags -- you know, for the environment --

But soon as we learned the actual leading source of plastic pollution?

Crickets. Performative progressivism. www-pbs-org.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.pbs....

Guest Rant: Governor Ferguson’s Proposed Budget Will Hurt Everyday Washingtonians When combined with the impact of President Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” HR 1, the no-revenue budget that Governor Bob Ferguson proposed today will hurt everyday people in Washington State. But austeri...

"...my bill would establish the “Well Washington Fund” to safeguard state housing, healthcare, and higher education, protecting services such as Medicaid, food stamps, and housing for people with disabilities..." www.thestranger.com/guest-editor...

City of Seattle Purchases 18-Acre Laurelhurst Property, Scuttling Sprawl Plans » The Urbanist # The $64 million sale of the hotly contested Talaris property in Laurelhurst surprised housing advocates who had long been fighting sprawl and pushing for a more forward-thinking urban vision. But wi...

NEW STORY // City of Seattle Purchases 18-Acre Laurelhurst Property, Scuttling Sprawl Plans

Story by Ryan Packer via @theurbanist.org // 🔗 www.theurbanist.org/2025/12/24/s...

If you have the free time to protest against new housing, your life sucks. Get a hobby. Take a ceramics class. Go for a walk. Read a book. Do literally anything else to fill the void in your heart.

I admittedly find Ferguson grating. I can't stand the consultant schtick that tries to brand him as the very serious, adult-in-the-room.

Meanwhile his actual actions are head-in-the-sand denial about hard choices or real solutions.