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City of Seattle limits size of big houses on small lots
Hoping to staunch the spread of megahomes into Seattle's bungalow neighborhoods, Seattle City Council on Monday limited how much house an owner can build on a small lot.
King County home prices slide again, but more people are buying
While prices continued their yearlong decline, the number of pending home sales in King County increased in September for the first time since the real-estate slump began last year, the Northwest Multiple Listing Service said Monday.
Local UW students come clean with traveling shower for homeless
Efforts like the "traveling shower" designed and built by University of Washington architecture graduate students, on display at the Sustainable Ballard Festival Saturday, are a step in the right direction, he said. "I don't consider anything a drop in the bucket," he said. "I actually find it refreshing and creative that groups are trying to find solutions like that."
Police sweep through Nickelsville, make arrests
Seattle police today arrested 22 people for trespassing during an hourlong, peaceful sweep of Nickelsville, the illegal homeless camp that was set up on city property in the predawn hours of Monday.
150 tents for homeless spring up on industrial land owned by Seattle
At the entrance of the makeshift grassy camp near West Marginal Way Southwest and Highland Park Way Southwest, an industrial area with the continual sound of heavy rigs, somebody had planted a wooden sign with burned-on letters: "NICKELSVILLE." This was a reference to the belief by advocates for the homeless that Mayor Greg Nickels is not exactly their friend.
Seattle Public Library celebrates New Libraries for Every Neighborhood
With the opening of the Magnolia branch earlier this summer, construction of all 27 libraries is now complete - on time and without voters being hit up for more money. On Saturday, the library system will mark the moment with a celebration that is, appropriately, citywide - an invitation to the public to tour every library.
Local Buses overflow, squeezing riders and transit in King, Snohomish counties
Buses are overflowing throughout the central Puget Sound area. On a typical weekday this spring, people took about 477,000 rides on King County Metro Transit, Sound Transit and Community Transit buses, up 8 percent from 2007. Thousands of others used a van pool, train, water taxi or streetcar.
Crosscut Seattle - The greening of Greg Nickels
"If the federal government is not going to sign on to the Kyoto Protocol," he said in his State of the City speech, "why can't we just do it at the local level?" Since then, 850 cities have signed onto Nickels's brainchild, the U.S. Mayors Climate Protection Agreement. They've pledged to cut their greenhouse gas emissions to 7 percent below 1990 levels by 2012. The mayor's bold gesture inspired hundreds of other city, state, and regional climate change initiatives.
Welcome to Nickelsville - Seattle Homeless Take on Mayor's Image
Though it took root this summer, the seed for Nickelsville was planted years ago with the creation of the 10-Year Plan to End Homelessness. The idea, as the name suggests, is to end homelessness by building more permanent low-income housing, and to lead people toward self-sufficiency by weaning them (and cities) off stopgap measures like shelters. It's an idea that Nickels has bought into-and one that is arguably not working.
In mock tribute, 300-foot statue of Allen sought
"I think Kapow! has found themselves a wonderful way to make more money poking fun at Paul Allen than selling coffee," said Vulcan spokeswoman Lyn Tangen. "I'm pretty skeptical anyone could do a 300-foot statue anywhere in the neighborhood or anywhere in the city." That same coffee shop, she noted, has also enjoyed great success poking fun at the new South Lake Union trolley, which Allen persuaded the city to support. Kapow! became an overnight hit when it dubbed the streetcar the S.L.U.T. and now does a brisk business selling its "Ride the S.L.U.T." T-shirts
Seattle's smog levels violate federal limits
Heavy traffic and hot weather pushed the Seattle area over the legal limit for smog this weekend, violating the federal Clean Air Act for the first time in more than a decade. The infraction saddles local officials with the responsibility of drafting a new plan to improve air quality, which could include tougher rules for car and industrial emissions. But the Puget Sound region won't face any consequences until at least 2010.
Smog puts Seattle area at risk for pollution penalties
Seattle's brown summer skies have never been much of a secret: The Seattle area is on the verge of getting a brown smudge on its green reputation. A combination of thousands of tailpipes and factories, summer sunshine and stricter pollution standards is putting the region on the brink of violating federal smog standards
Divers come up with new hook on lake's spikes
Spikes pulled from the bottom of Green Lake, now a total of 86, may turn out to be less ominous and more practical than originally thought and have probably been in the water much longer than the month or two park officials originally estimated. Several of the 2-foot or longer pieces of metal recovered by divers and snorkelers Friday had hooked tops like candy canes. Some speculated that the spikes, about as thick as pencils, had been used long ago to tether something to the bottom of the lake. "Not in the last 20 years," said park officials.
Big Dig's red ink engulfs state - pause for Seattle Viaduct rebuild?
Now, three years after the official dedication of the Central Artery/Third Harbor Tunnel, the state is reeling under a legacy of debt left by the massive project. In all, the project will cost an additional $7 billion in interest, bringing the total to a staggering $22 billion, according to a Globe review of hundreds of pages of state documents. It will not be paid off until 2038.
