Posted Tue, Feb 2, 12:39 p.m.

The key thing is keeping trucks and trains away from passenger cars. These driving styles and requirements are incompatible. The arrogance and lack of consideration by semitruck drivers, and the lack of coordination between trains crossing and rush hours make it positively mind-wratcheting even though main road thoroughfares run through ...

Posted Tue, Feb 24, 4:13 p.m.

This is a great example of what Nordhaus and Schellenberger (The Breakthrough) wrote about when they point out the ridiculous manner that enviros go about meeting their objectives and why they continue to lose grassroots support. If they can't make a good case for this in one of the most ...

Posted Sat, Oct 18, 6:43 p.m.

Scott says, "Sure, members may work for a nonprofit. But to try to exclude them or discount their input on that basis -- that's unfortunate. To lump them together as a vast, colluding block -- that's simplistic and misguided. And to liken them to a corporation like... Vulcan? -- that's ...

Posted Sun, Oct 12, 12:33 p.m.

I am active in my neighborhood community group and we spend the majority of our time responding to planning proposals by the City that seem founded in ideological planning principles (focusing on increasing density and discouraging cars and parking)for new urbanism environment. The ideals are fine except for the fact ...

Posted Wed, Jul 16, 1:03 a.m.

Open space should get integrated into "living" space: BTW, this past April the city council unanimously approved Council Bill 116010 (with Licata absent) which allows any MF project with 30 units and under (80 units downtown) to be exempt from SEPA review. Because SEPA also considers factors such as traffic ...