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Gee, you could have killed your column, it's not like anything important is happening on Thursday that it might relate to ...

That said, ECB's wise column backing my message that we need more 40-100 story inexpensive residential rental apartment buildings was pretty good.

;-)

Posted by Will in Seattle | February 13, 2008 4:38 PM
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I read in the PI yesterday that there's another two towers of expensive luxury condos -- err, sorry, I mean "density" -- going up downtown.

Posted by Orv | February 13, 2008 5:13 PM
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ECB's column: Those new subdivisions around Marysville are prime candidates for slums of the future described in the March issue of the Atlantic. Too far away from jobs or where anyone really wants to live; sold too at peak market prices to sub-prime borrowers who will just walk away when their rate goes up; will be bought up for cheap rentals or stripped for materials.

Posted by anna | February 13, 2008 5:16 PM
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The real problem with ECB's column is it asks for two things that are fundamentally incompatible -- growth limitations, and affordable housing. Market forces mean those are mutually exclusive. The more you artificially limit the supply of buildable land for housing by imposing growth boundaries, the more expensive housing will become. Trying for higher density isn't really a solution because "dense" development costs more per square foot, which is why it's dominated luxury condos and high-rent apartments. Rent controls don't work either because they eliminate the incentive to create more housing.

Posted by Orv | February 13, 2008 5:21 PM
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Thank heavens you bumped the Mt. Si thing for yet another in an infinite series of articles on the benefits of legalizing pot.

Posted by Big Sven | February 13, 2008 5:25 PM
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The most interesting story is at Seattle Weekly. Aimee Curl kicked your asses this week.

Posted by Luigi Giovanni | February 13, 2008 5:25 PM
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What, the one about Sonic Boom moving out of Fremont?

That's in Lineout.

Posted by Will in Seattle | February 13, 2008 5:28 PM
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Fix your link in the pot article. It is linking to http://conversation.org/ rather than http://www.MarijuanaConversation.org like you wanted.

nerd-powers away!

Posted by drew | February 13, 2008 7:00 PM
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Interesting - article about neighborhood response to house design trumps article about global warming implications of failure to provide urban housing.

Kind of speaks to the reason why growth management is not working.

Posted by Michael | February 13, 2008 7:34 PM
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I thought the pot story was the growth management story.

Posted by Will in Seattle | February 13, 2008 11:30 PM
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I sure hope ECB's article on transit got spiked on the basis of stupidity.

Transit alone isn't a panacea? Really? Man, that'll come as news to the people who are trying to figure out how to mitigate the effects of traffic and sprawl. Haven't they always said, "Just build Sound Transit north to Marysville and--poof!--our traffic problems will disappear."

So, hell, yeah, let's just spend the money on more lanes of asphalt. If transit alone can't help us get home from work on time, we might as well make Tim Eyman and Kemper Freeman happy.

Posted by MadDogm13 | February 14, 2008 2:33 PM

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