Seattle

Sweet jeebers. Such a tiny, insufficient proposal, and she's aghast.

This is why the rents are too damned high.

This is so disappointing. I voted for her largely because of the things she said in this Urbanist article:

“To be honest, I would say for a while I was really reluctant to consider additional options besides single family housing, and this has been a real journey of education,” Moore told The Urbanist. “And, and so I’ve really moved away from that. And I’ve also been really glad that the state pushed us. So many people were really kind of NIMBYish in this regard. And we weren’t going to make any progress unless the state stepped in. So the passage of 1110 has created the ability for us to do the work that needs to be done.”

“The last article that I read was The Urbanist article about various options. At that point, it seemed like Alternative 5 was the one that had the most variety and integration and scale to it. But, you know, now people have been talking about an Alternative 6. And I certainly think that we ought to include the Alternative 6 in the comp plan for study. So I’m not in a position to say yay or nay, I don’t know enough. But I think five and six are certainly where I would be leaning.”

To clarify the last part, Alternative 5 was the biggest density increase included in the city's options, and Alternative 6 was a proposal by the public to go even further. Really sad to see her going full NIMBY now. I'll be sending her an email later today.