An infuriating thread about exclusionary zoning in all the places around Seattle. Everything about it is bad, but what is particularly maddening to me is jamming in density around arterials. It's so dumb, so classist & racist, so counter-productive economically, just ... argh.
https://twitter.com/pushtheneedle/status/1342174023812149248
Density should create walkable, pleasant communities. When density is just low-quality, ticky-tacky apartment buildings lining a giant car sewer (see: north Greenwood), you get none of the benefits. You're just creating a place to warehouse working class & low-income residents.
Go check out Phinney Ridge & Greenwood in Seattle some time. They are supposed to be "urban villages." Instead you have apartments, sidewalks, & bike lanes... wrapped around a car sewer with people driving 35mph. "Walkable"? It's a constant game of dodge-the-2-ton-death-machines.
Seattleites have no experience of actual pleasant urbanism -- there is vanishingly little, even in pockets, anywhere in the city. They have no experience of what they're missing. So all they know to do is defend their f'ing mid-city suburbs & offstreet parking. Feh. Feh I say.
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