2 bed units are going for 3800+, although if you want one of the units with parking, they start at 4300 and an extra 375 for the space. This is way above market for units of this size but the views and location is incredible, especially if you're touring units in summer.

Yesterday I went on a tour of Senakw! Here are some units and a thread with some info.

Noticed this balcony based heat pump in a neighboring building. Looked like an individual decision as didn't see it on other balconies. Something I hope can be more prevalent in new multifamily, assuming we can make larger balconies more viable.

I wrote about picking 1-2 viable small city corridors yrs ago: itineranturbanist.wordpress.com/2017/08/13/b... In small metros there is always pressure to try to serve everywhere, because transit is only for the truly dependent--and that's reasonable. But someone should invest in these corridors.

Building Urbanism and Transit in Small Cities

I’ve been following updates from the APTA conference in the Twin Cities this past week via Twitter and a friend who works in the area. A couple of the tweets I saw really caught my eye and helped t…

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It's a shame we don't have 3D Google Maps imagery for almost any cities in Latin America. I think it would surprise a lot of North Americans to see how much more built up a lot of much poor countries are then their own.

A speed camera’s not going to let you out of a ticket because you have a thin blue line sticker or a bumper sticker for a conservative talk radio host. It’s also not going to shoot you as part of a routine traffic stop.

Trump is preparing to impose additional 15-35% tariffs and minimum prices on polysilicon, which is used to manufacture solar panels and microchips www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Trump Readies Tariffs and Price Floors to Bolster US Polysilicon

President Donald Trump is preparing to impose tariffs and minimum prices on imported polysilicon, a bid to boost domestic production of the material as well as the US semiconductors and solar panels m...

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They also need to reexamine the design of this system, it's too expensive.

Rooting against giving antitrust exemptions without athlete representation like all the other leagues have. "antitrust exemptions that would allow the NCAA and member conferences to make rules about athlete eligibility, transfers and NIL compensation, while shielding them from legal challenges."

Chris Vannini@chrisvannini.com · last wk.

Our story on the Big Ten and SEC supporting the Senate bill, why it changed and what comes next: www.nytimes.com/athletic/748...

@kirkhovenkotter.com sound transit needs to be pushed to do better. Not spend more. The rest of the world does this better than us. It’s not about spending less on transit. It’s about getting more for every dollar we spend.

Trevor Reed@transportreform.bsky.social · last wk.

Having $18.1B in identified funding ($2.3B per mile) and it not being enough is the issue. Skytrain's Broadway Extension opening in '27 is delivering 6 underground stations over 3.5 miles (3.1 tunneled, .4 elevated) for $~600M per mile (US). www.broadwaysubway.ca

Having $18.1B in identified funding ($2.3B per mile) and it not being enough is the issue. Skytrain's Broadway Extension opening in '27 is delivering 6 underground stations over 3.5 miles (3.1 tunneled, .4 elevated) for $~600M per mile (US). www.broadwaysubway.ca

Ryan Packer@typewriteralley.bsky.social · last wk.

Sound Transit: "If the region does not secure additional savings or financial capacity and must wait for existing revenues to accumulate, Link service to Smith Cove, Interbay, and Market Street could be delayed until around 2060." www.soundtransit.org/blog/platfor...

Because the Seattle City Council has let the Design Review exemption lapse, I just had all the departure requests on a small infill apartment project get rejected! And I’m sure I’m not the only one.

"The people who work on farms often don't own them" is something that would have been completely intuitive to 99% of people for 99% of human history but is completely unintelligible to the people who make US public policy.

Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · last wk.

A very serious Rural Politico once told me "Dems have to go to farmer meetings! We gotta be where the people are!" I was in fact in a farmer meeting at that very moment! So I live-texted him the meeting. They were complaining that they want indentured workers that they don't have to pay or feed.

Caribbean countries are some of the only ones in the world to adopt US building codes and standards, but selectively and heavily amended. Heat pump refrigerant standards may be one example – R290 minisplits aren’t legal in the US, but I guess they are in the Caribbean refindustry.com/news/grace-s...

Not just taxes, but even things like fines. I had a leg staffer use the “80% of people live paycheck to paycheck” line as the reason we couldn’t fine people who commit vehicular manslaughter.

This is my favorite bike advocacy video in a long time. I love how direct the kids are about saying they deserve to move about their neighborhood safely. Well done Piers Park Sailing! They have more videos on Instagram: www.instagram.com/piersparksai...

Ah yes, 75-year bonds sound like the smartest plan!

Barchart@barchart.com · last wk.

JUST IN 🚨: 30-Year Treasury Yield soars to highest level since the run-up to the Global Financial Crisis 📈 📈

"Florida’s [permitting reform] applies to a number of construction trades, not just solar contractors— which perhaps widened its appeal beyond renewable energy advocates"

Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · last wk.

Homeowners have lost interest in solar panels since the Trump administration killed federal incentives — except in Florida. Here's why installations are still holding up in the Sunshine State.

Anyway, just one more case of shitty Mexican Urbanism requiring 1 parking space per units for social housing developments where 25% of households own a car.

Another fufu amendment. Have your hired policy staff go look up the information online. The state has many resources such as the Department of Ecology's website: ecology.wa.gov/regulations-...

Ryan Packer@typewriteralley.bsky.social · last wk.

Last amendment! Bob Kettle's proposal to request a "SEPA rulebook" from city departments. Kettle is giving a little speech about how the SEPA process is not transparent or consistent.

Fufu amendment given the current EIS already has a reader friendly executive summary on the City’s website: www.seattle.gov/documents/De...

Ryan Packer@typewriteralley.bsky.social · last wk.

Now we're getting into amendments. The first is a Hollingsworth proposal to require environmental impact statements (EISs) to have a "reader-friendly summary." It passes unanimously.

Are the several city council meetings, dozens of public meetings, a dedicated 60 day public comment period, planning commission review, and a 9 month gap from release of the DEIS to FEIS not viable/qualified "opportunities" to ask whether the City adequately studied the impacts of a major decision?

Ryan Packer@typewriteralley.bsky.social · 2w ago

Saka defends the current SEPA appeals process in a press release sent just now: "An administrative appeal is not a veto over housing or growth. It is a limited opportunity to ask whether the City adequately studied the impacts of a major decision before that decision becomes law."

I love the in-depth coverage of LeBron’s commuting options, but you did miss one major point in Amtrak’s favor. Amtrak allows people to attach private rail cars to their engines on scheduled routes. LeBron could buy a private coach with any amenities he could imagine and travel in style!

A 12-year run of building code updates raised apartment construction costs by nearly 10%, adding $222 to the break-even rent developers need in LA. www.huduser.gov/portal/pdred...

These crazy wildfires in Spain and France have only destroyed “hundreds” of homes? LA’s 2025 fires destroyed 18,000. Noncombustible materials and a tight wildland-urban interface are probably a better strategy than clearing vegetation and spacing out houses. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/07...

commuting by helicopter is maybe the last thing i’d do as an NBA player

So far, expenditures earmarked JUST for this EIS and the future supplemental EIS total $905,000. Without CM Lin's reform, the next EIS will be even more expensive, exhaustive, and esoteric, to the point that any zoning reform will cost taxpayers a million dollars before it even can be considered.

I was intrigued enough by this measure to do some further analysis, including looking at national data going back to 1940 and at a bunch of metro areas since 2005. I wrote about it here: domainexpansion.substack.com/p/an-easy-an...

An Easy and Useful Way to Measure Housing Supply Shortages

How many homes are there per single adult and adult couple? The ratio has been declining nationally since 1980, suggesting that Americans aren't forming new households like they could in the past.

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Ryan Moulton@moultano.bsky.social · 2w ago

I'm actually astonished at how clean this graph looks as a diagnostic for our housing ills. Note how close it is to 1 at the start. Houses per single adult or married couple.

This is how the SHUT UP Act would work here:

Fietser@americanfietser.bsky.social · 2w ago

A motorist in Amsterdam was pulled over for being a public noise nuisance with his car. Noise measurement tests were done and the car was found to be in violation. The driver had to continue his journey on foot and the car is not allowed on public infrastructure until the exhaust is properly muffled

DOMINIQUE MALONGA DUNK ALERT #WNBA