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Washington State has big housing plans and ambitious planning tools, but it needs binding commitments across public, private, ...
Summer road work means delays for bus riders, but King County Metro is seeking to design detours to minimize the pain. Some ...
The adoption of a locally preferred alternative allows Metro to fully advance design work while seeking federal funding.
Progressive mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s victory in Tuesday's Democratic primary is a watershed moment for New York ...
The targeted upgrades intended to speed up buses and increase reliability have been in the works since 2021, and come just in ...
Safe Eastside, a group with a long track record of attacking facilities for people exiting homelessness, is turning its ...
Reviving community court isn’t a simple fix for Seattle’s criminal legal system — pre-filing diversion programs are more ...
Automatic license plate readers have proliferated across 81 cities in Washington State, and audits have shown federal agents and anti-abortion states are using Washington plate data to hunt abortion ...
The recommended changes would allow single-stair buildings to be a viable development option in the city’s midrise zones, which draft documents suggest could be a more prominent zone in the city. For ...
“Setbacks do not equate to trees, and that’s something that’s hard for me, because a setback can be paved. A setback can be used for a whole number of situations,” Strauss said ahead of his abstention ...
You might be surprised to learn it is illegal for a city in Washington State to set a speed limit lower than 20 miles per hour, but it’s true. The top speed of many e-bikes is essentially the minimum ...
The act is set to create two tiers of state review of housing plans. A voluntary tier would allow cities to submit their plans and ordinances on their own accord and their own timeline — something ...