News Roundup: Meddling
by Martin H. Duke from Seattle Transit Blog on (#1HAA3)
- Roosevelt BRT meetings this week.
- Meddling design review board costs the city 36 stories of housing and jobs ($). Burn the whole design review process down.
- WSDOT hiring someone to put out information to travelers.
- "Asian Plaza" redeveloping in a big way.
- ST contracts with FCV to provide "user-centered design."
- Metro in a kerfuffle over an "overused" West Seattle garbage can, but relents.
- Uber pulls out of Bremerton due to a $75 license fee, returns after a day.
- Point Wells development study now to include a new Metro route to 185th St. Station.
- Queen Anne NIMBY files appeal to delay backyard cottage legislation.
- Ferry wi-fi going away.
- There isn't much talk about the Convention Center expansion.
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