Bruce Lee’s Seattle days; calling Amazon’s bluff and other head-tax reactions; restaurant bills complaining about having to pay living wages.

Bill Bradburd offers more clarification on the SeaTimes story blurbed here last week, about the amount of land in Seattle devoted to single-family zoning:

Actually… that’s 69% of residentially zoned land is zoned single family. But that 31% left over can have in places a shit ton of housing in residential towers, apartment buildings, multi-family projects, microhousing, etc.

And it’s in those areas we are building well over 100K units of housing.That’s 100K+ units in the pipeline since 2015, the year for which all this HALA nonsense is being measured and our 20 growth plan is based. In fact, since the Dec 2017 through April, about 40K units alone have been permitted.

The hype over single family is a non issue except to developers looking for more low density zoning to build $750K townhouses for tech workers. And a way for neo-urbanists to attack homeowners who often are simply working class people who have nothing to do with any of this shit and make less than 50K/yr….

Don’t believe the hype…

(and in truth, it’s 49% of Seattle (excluding right of ways) is single family homes–some in single family zones, though in single family zones there are multi-unit buildings like duplexes triplexes and more, and in higher density zoned parcels there are old single family homes hanging on. http://www.seattle.gov/opcd/population-and-demographics/about-seattle#landuse)

Keep up the good work…  Bill

Nordic Museum’s big new debut; Cinco de Mayo’s new meaning; more head-tax and public-hearing-screamers fallout; Ichiro gets kicked upstairs.

Amazon threatens to slow local growth as if we should fear that; shouters take over a head-tax hearing; a Spokane teacher’s truth-to-power moment.

A peaceful, pro-social May Day; Daniel Ramirez wins in court (for now); the newest threat to local salmon; the tragedy behind Rachel Dolezal’s story.

Connecting the early UK female punks to the Oly riot grrrls; counting every native plant and animal here; what’s certain to happen on May Day.

Big cell-service merger ‘On’ again; Seahawks’ new twin stars; Durkan kicks out neighborhoods czar; a different kind of ‘apple authorized reseller.’

Erotic art becomes a resistance act; an initiative would force a quick fix to state tax unfairness; ride shares are now more popular than taxis.

The problem with having fewer trees in traditionally minority neighborhoods; a new ‘reality’ show features an area bikini barista stand; the SPD gets its first inspector general.

What a white woman got wrong about a black woman’s experience; an Ed Murray associate’s own past scandal; Rep. Jayapal says “we failed.”

Head-tax supporters thrown out of City Council hearing; the opioid crisis’s costs (hidden and other); a state initiative aims to keep teens away from AR-15s; should the NFL have cheer squads anymore?

Ballard ‘spite house’ lives!; deadly-force law gets un-amended; head tax proposal’s introduced; a better ‘role’ for a certain DC insider?

Seattle U allowed a student drag show but doesn’t like seeing it in the school paper; another student rally against shootings; boycotting a ‘bro-culture’ brewery.

Where businesses (heart) the Seattle “head tax” idea; growing veggies in a giant warehouse; a big dispute over a small-town festival.

Philly Starbucks reactions continue; a Seattle connection to yet another POTUS sex scandal; state AG Bob Ferguson pleads to the US Supreme Court—against WA tribes.