The Eastside's largest city could ultimately go much further than the new statewide baseline in providing flexibility for builders when it comes to costly off street parking stalls. Recent elections ...

Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson and Rico Quirindongo, the city's planning director, seem to be on the same page about revamping the city's growth plans to allow for additional housing density. The City ...

Adding a light rail stop next to Bellevue's decommissioned airport could unlock more than 100 acres for dense urban development, boosting the potential of the planned line to Issaquah. Like Bel-Red or ...

Interbay is a collision of changing urban landscapes, expensive deteriorating infrastructure, and confused layers of authority. As the smaller of Seattle’s two industrial centers, Interbay is ground ...

The release of the city's final environmental review of the One Seattle growth plan is likely to be followed by an appeal, in an attempt to stop neighborhood-level zoning changes. But while an appeal ...

A single family home in East Fremont with an accessory cottage in the sideyard. (Doug Trumm) Accessory dwelling units (ADUs) just got a bit easier to build in Seattle, as legislation passed in May ...

Oudburg, a shared street in Ghent, Belgium. Building similar streets is now a possibility for Washington cities following a state law change. (Mark Ostrow) A shared street, as defined by SB 5595, has ...

The sleek new Siemens trains, part of a major order in 2022, will be rolling out in the Pacific Northwest ahead of other parts of the country. The new trainsets come at an uncertain time for Amtrak ...

A long-awaited delivery assessment for a 1.3 mile stretch of streetcar is out, and it shows a big jump in expected costs to complete the project. (Ryan Packer) A new consultant report on the ...

Terry Avenue in Seattle's Denny Triangle neighborhood includes some hostile architecture hallmarks including planters with "anti-skate bar" features and benches carefully designed to prevent sleeping.

Before moving ahead with building a second Downtown Seattle light rail tunnel as planned, Sound Transit is taking a second look at putting a third line in the existing tunnel instead. Doing so would ...

Corridor-wide bus revamps scheduled to open to riders in six years have been taking ten years to deliver, or more. A new report released this fall outlines the myriad reasons RapidRide lines fall ...