Publicola is now doing the best reporting on this subject:
- A ban on minimum parking requirements was removed to win the vote of Rep. Dave Upthegrove (D-Burien) and get it out of committee.
- A blow-by-blow account of Sally Clark’s forum on the bill in the Central District. Erica C. Barnett has an even more detailed account.
- Rep. Doug Ericksen (R-Bellingham) apparently thinks the bill is going to ban single-family homes and private cars.
Sally Clark also visited Roosevelt on Wednesday which I did not attend but something in the summary confuses me: “Ms. Clark had mentioned that a density study indicated that the Roosevelt Transit Station as currently zoned is at 20 units per acre” but Jim O’Halloran (of Roosevelt) said “a better assessment of the current zoning density in the area was more like 38 units”. I’d actually estimated over 50 already, so obviously there are some very different assumptions being made. The disturbing part is that the city’s are lowest… and wouldn’t they be the ones enforcing?
I think they’re determining the area encompassed differently. Was the city counting things like the high school? It’s very hard to calculate density numbers because not everyone plays by the same rules.