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Chuck Wolfe

A regular contributor to Crosscut.
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Active since: August 2009
Bio: Chuck Wolfe, a Seattle environmental and land-use attorney, holds a master's degree in regional planning. He blogs at myurbanist.

Headlines by this author

Learning from Detroit, the City of Ruin

Posted Thu, Oct 8, 6 a.m.

A city that defines urban decline was once like Seattle, built on a dominant transportation industry. Can it become a laboratory for urban reinvention?

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Will a new mayor think boldly about planning?

Posted Wed, Sep 9, 6 a.m.

There are plenty of land-use controversies to heat up the election. But some cities are jumping beyond these block-by-block skirmishes and proposing sweeping new forms of zoning and urban design. Our turn?

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The legal issues in 'backyard cottages'

Posted Fri, Aug 28, 6 a.m.

The state directs such small accessory units, to increase housing in cities. But cities get to regulate the local conditions. The fight in Seattle is joined in a few weeks.

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Blog posts by this author

From 1911, the Bogue Plan speaks

Posted Tue, Nov 10, 9:12 a.m.

The nearly 100-year-old "city beautiful" plan for the city, never adopted, still holds a worthy reminder.

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Waiting, statue-like, for the next count

Posted Thu, Nov 5, 10:22 a.m.

In the mayor's race, the slow process of counting mail-in ballots has left the candidates frozen.

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'Wrong on metaphysics, wrong for America'

Posted Thu, Oct 22, noon

The election approaches, the ads get nasty. It's time-tested politics. Maybe you missed the attack ads on Kant and Aragorn?

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The tunnel and the 'Westneat dilemma'

Posted Mon, Oct 19, 3 p.m.

WIth a new Sightline report predicting cost overruns on plans to replace the Viaduct, it's a good time to revisit the Times columnist's perceptive framing of the debate.

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Walkable cities? So how come pedestrian malls usually fail?

Posted Thu, Sep 24, 5:32 p.m.

You can't just block off vehicles and expect a public space. Here are some do's (Boulder, San Antonio) and don't's (Eugene).

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