Prof. Morrill's recent evaluation of Growth Management in Central Puget Sound, 1990 to 2007. Maps referenced are in the "Excellent Resources" folder below (see CPS...) A shorter version of this paper is also downloadable on the Page entitled "Markets vs Management."
Zoning on a spreadsheet compares City Council's April, 25, 2010 draft of experimental multifamily code, draft submitted to Councl, current code ~ '89 corrections of prior experimental code, experimental '82 code, and the mulitfamily code prior to '82. Anna Nissen
Background Paper — Economics — Anna Nissen, 5/10. State 2009 Population Estimates [also 2010 census] again confirm that the Puget Sound Regional Council misrepresented Vision 2040 when adopted as a modest refinement of Vision 2020. Far From it! [Charts included.]
Part of City Council's 9/24/09 requested test of the Multifamily Update. This report, adjunct to Team 3 evaluation, presented to Council by Anna Nissen as an individual .
Entire content of previous Livable Seattle website: : "Existing Capacity Three Times Anticipated Growth" May 2008, "Commentary on Proposed Multi-family Updates" (zoning changes) March 2008, and " Seattle Home to Over a Million People!—1911 to Present" (March 2008)
The Greenest Practice: Cultural Sustainability, Adaptive Re-use and the New Preservation Ethic— Kathryn Rogers Merlino and Peter Steinbrueck Feb. 2009, Column 5, U. W. College of the Built Environment—"We can't build our way out of climate change"
Background Paper—Economics —excerpts of "Preservation and Affordable Housing: the Missed Connection," Donovan D. Rypkema August 2002 for the National Trust for Historical Preservation.
Effects of Transit Oriented Development (TOD) on Housing, Parking, and Travel, TCRP Report 128—G.B. Arrington and Robert Cervero, lead authors 2008, Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, a part of the Transit Cooperative Research Program sponsored by the Federal Transit Administration—"TOD developments that do get built are less affordable and less sustainable than they might be, because they are subject to incorrect assumptions. Many of the hoped for benefits from the nearly $75 billion in public dollars invested in rail transit over the past 11 years, are not being realized."
Seattle Zoning Glossary, working draft —Anna Nissen. Zoning matters and the language seems intentionally off-putting. Here's help on the current essentials. Neighborhood planners who know more get better results.
Clear and Concise Design Guidelines—Anna Nissen August, 2008—keynotes for discussion with City Council (land use) about improving the two tier nature of the existing land use code, i.e Design Review, a more rigorous and predictable means of departing from the standards of a more fool-proof 1st tier.
A Teach-in on Incentive Zoning—Anna Nissen October 2008—a summary primer to prep citizens for a Workshop on Incentive Zoning held October 2008 by the Seattle Citywide Neighborhood Council in conjunction with Councilmember Sally Clark
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