Weekend Roundup: New Zoning

Seattle's Office of Planning and Community Development (OPCD) is seeking comments on its draft zoning map released this week. Click the image for a full-window view of the map. Transit:

• Metro Matters: Metro's first battery-electric base to be named Tukwila
• The Platform: Sound Transit Police bike unit boosts system safety with increased visibility and flexibility
• The Platform: Making it easier to take the S Line; Sound Transit summarizes five station access and parking projects under way at Sounder South Line stations.
• The Seattle Times ($): Why trains are 2 minutes slower at UW Station; a more-detailed report on ST's update we published yesterday.
• The Platform: Writing on the wall: Capitol Hill Station welcomes a new style of art; using a mural to discourage graffiti is an age-old tactic.
• WSDOT: New sailing schedules coming to Anacortes/San Juan Islands this winter

Seattle Zoning News:

• PubliCola: Harrell's Latest Zoning Plan Modestly Increases Density Compared to Previous, Widely Criticized Draft. It seems OPCD listened to advocacy to do more in residential zones, but we're still only getting modest incremental change in the face of a transformative problem.
• The Urbanist: Updated Seattle Growth Plan Adds Five Neighborhood Anchors, Bigger Fourplexes
• The Seattle Times ($): Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell unveils new version of housing growth plan

Commentary:

• Reece Martin: If you like transit, you need to use it.
• Planetizen: YIMBY Right And Left: A Review of Two Books; InOn The Housing Crisis, journalist Jerusalem Demsas explains why liberals should support less zoning and more housing. InNowhere To Live, attorney James Burling does the same for conservative readers."
• Post Alley: Former Seattle Councilmember Jean Godden reviews the road to today's revamped Waterfront.
• Next City ($): Urban Crime Is Falling, Despite What Fear-Mongering Politicians Tell You

This is an Open Thread.