Seattle Nice: "One Seattle" or Old Seattle?
And: Are urbanists "too intersectional"?
On this week's edition of "Seattle Nice," Sandeep, David, and I discuss Mayor Bruce Harrell’s parochial slow-growth "One Seattle" Comprehensive Plan update, which would double down on the “urban village” strategy adopted in the 1990s, by concentrating the city’s rental housing along large, busy arterials and highways while building very little new housing where property owners live.
Also: Sandeep says urbanists are "too intersectional" in our concerns; I argue that it isn't possible to advocate for density without bringing affordability, equity, homelessness, and law enforcement into the mix.
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I listened yesterday. Great conversation! I wonder how much of the timidity of the One Seattle Plan comes from Anticipatory Compromise on the part of OPCD. It is not a bold plan, and because of that won't be effective at solving any of those intersectional problems.