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It passed🥳! Here are the very reasonable street management principles the Pike Place Market Constituency adopted tonight. It would astounded normal Seattleites that this remains controversial, and that opponents said it was “similar to Trump’s efforts to tear down the East Wing of the White House” 🤯

I think we should let the Cafe Nordo folks do whatever the fuck they want to in Pioneer Square and don't really care if that's a controversial position.

next Tuesday the Market Constituency will be voting on a combined Declaration/Resolution which, adopted together, would establish a comprehensive position on street management as well as a committee tasked with advocating for it. read the document here, and if you’re a member—come vote!

getting slightly drunk on hungarian wine in a beautifully-preserved, cold war-era sleeping carriage on my overnight train from transylvania to budapest. i really am sorry to boast, but this is as good as it gets for me.

upset that Pike Place will be open to random cars over half the days in winter? make your voice known! join the Pike Place Constituency here and get your application in the dropbox before tomorrow night in order to vote on a declaration asking for no more random cars

Another quote today from CM Rinck: "I believe we protect and promote the vibrance of our historic districts when we make sure that peoples' experiences in them are safe ones."

currently debating whether i will call into a seattle city council meeting from romania this evening

sad to leave istanbul, but stoked to be heading for a flatter city. those hills kicked my ass. here are some of the 8,000 cats i met. güle güle 👋😊

Merhaba 👋

this is my dAD’S BAND OMG

This city is simply the best. The pedestrianized market is the best.

Not every pedestrian street will work year-round, at least not yet. Some need to be strengthened/revitalized first. The street has to already be reasonably successful as a sustainable summer people-magnet. Vancouver’s Granville Street isn’t ready yet. Seattle’s Pike Place IS ready to be year-round.

did you know the commission’s guidelines refer to pedestrians 20 times? meanwhile, the word “parking” appears just once, and only to dictate that it should not compete with or replace pedestrian access and Market character

Tomorrow! The Pike Place Market Historical Commission looks at the plan to allow more car traffic on Pike Place this winter. You can send/make a comment: www.seattle.gov/neighborhood... To be frank, it's not a commission I expect to push to make the plan better but they should still hear from you

Just a reminder that the changes proposed to the Pike Place Market vehicle access plan for this winter are up for consideration at tomorrow's Market Historical Commission meeting: 4:30pm at the Market or online. www.seattle.gov/neighborhood...

someone asked me once if the loss of a hero had ever made my earth stand still, or if one ever would. the answer was obvious. she was simply perfect 💔

Since 2005, Seattle has planned to transform 34 acres of abandoned buildings in Discovery Park into a community hub of affordable homes, supportive housing, and park facilities. This project is now in its final stages, and it's time to bring it home. Join us: www.housingconsortium.org/fortlawton

Kathy Heideman - Fine Street Woman [US, Folk/Country/Psych/Rock] (1976) https://redd.it/z04y6f https://youtu.be/UKEsLL0TIE8

NEW STORY// Wilson Order Tees Up Sweeping Traffic Safety Changes, Accelerating Projects By Ryan Packer via @theurbanist.org

I hope that one day we'll look back on the hysterical derangement with which the mainstream press targeted a young female mayor and feel deep embarrassment mynorthwest.com/mynorthwest-...

No one is proposing old-timey cop-on-your-block foot patrols. Seattle is meeting its 7-minute 911 goal. We already prohibit "camping" and sweep people pointlessly from place to place. And crime is down. But if you ask people leading questions that imply lack of action, you get the result you want.

I'm not an alarmist person but I don't think the World Cup is the only time someone might want to do a lot of damage by driving through a crowd at Pike Place Market and I think the infrastructure should reflect that reality.

that breakfast sandwich rules and so does gordon

I've lived in Seattle twenty years and I still hang out at Pike Place Market once a week. As an ode to a favorite place, some hidden Market gems:

Tom Graff at the Market Historical Commission tonight: “there is no one walking on [Pike Place] in January or February” Odd, who were all these people walking on the street this Jan/Feb? I guess I have a lot more imaginary friends than I realized

The Pike Place bureaucratic ecosystem is unlike any other in the city: a half-dozen boards and organizations with a little bit of power all pointing a gun at each other. At the end of the day, it's hard for city hall to rise above that.

I read the Pike Place Market Vehicle Access Pilot Evaluation Technical Memo. It's a great data source. But the UW Urban Freight Lab's recommendation to make access control seasonal is 1) unsupported by evidence and 2) based solely on (perceived) sales without consideration of other community values.

talk to me when you have been honked at, shouted at, called a b*tch, HIT by a driver in their car because you were walking on pike place

talk to me when you’ve enjoyed the theatrical display of five-year-olds squealing with delight while they chase pigeons on pike place (safely, in the absence of cars)

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Saka, closing out, says "even if it's not a right, we heard dozens of people today say, from their perspective, that it is a right." That is not actually a point. It's describing people's self-righteous insistence that losing a delay tactic that's rather bespoke in Seattle is a gross injustice.

this was bizarre to watch

The final vote: YES: Strauss, Foster, Kettle, Lin, Rinck NO: Saka, Juarez, Rivera, Hollingsworth The bill passes 5-4.

I will note that, as others have, that there is a stark, stark contrast in the ages and assets of delay supporters and delay opponents. Those who want more ways to appeal and delay housing are overwhelmingly older house owners; those who want housing are younger renters.