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Oooh, Text wrapping. I always wondered why I never saw more of that here.

Fresh fruit for homeless and cheap housing are terrible ideas. The faster we get poor people out of Seattle the better off the rest of us will be. Duh!

Ooooh. Let the kids speak. Not.

I'm going to make yet another correct prediction.

None of this will change the removal of lower income housing in this city, either proportionally or totally, in that neighborhood.

There will be a net and gross reduction.

Time to wake up and consider 100-story inexpensive residential apartment buildings with required set-asides of 25 percent low income, 25 percent median income, and 25 percent allowed luxury apartments. With public green space around them.

It worked in Vancouver BC. It will work here.

Ignoring the growth won't change it. Small zoning increases won't change it.

And protests won't change it.

100 storiez of inexpenzive houzing? Thiz I gotta see. Methinkz your making it all up. Sendus a pic or a link or a pink.

Every group that has the kids talk thinks it’s a brilliant stratagem.

Wrong. It just makes you look like your putting the kids up to it. Besides, do you really think they haven’t seen that trick before?

tallest building in Van is 48 stories and it's not low income.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Vancouver's_10_tallest_skyscrapers

I'm telling you, it was something to see. The kids weren't the only ones to speak on the matter - they followed two eloquent adults - but they were the easiest to relate to. Any adult can bullshit about his or her pet issue. It's a lot harder to put words in a kid's mouth and have them sound earnest. I believed Cascade mattered to these kids, and I wasn't the only one.

These meetings' public speaking sessions are always a circus of obscure citizen axes to grind, in every city and principality. It never fails, and if you're somewhat emotionally detached from it all, it can be quite hilarious to watch.

Will has been going on about his 100-story buildings forever here. It doesn't say much for his sanity; 100-story buildings are expensive. Tatty apartments that have been there a while are cheap. There's no such thing as NEW low-income housing unless it's heavily subsidized and in inconsequential amounts.

Those damn kids never stay on message!

It's called changing the debate.

You're all stuck on "preserving". We've seen what happens in the end with that - the poor people get shipped off to Kent.

I'm saying get your head out of the box and deal with reality.

Fnarf, don't doubt too hard. I think I lived in that building, briefly. It's called the Yeti Towers. Vancouver. It's the tall one. Right there. See?