The colored blocks are among those eligible for increased height limits. The red blocks are where a developer is actually able to begin contruction, but neighbors are fighting hardest.
  • The colored blocks are among those eligible for increased height limits. The red blocks are where a developer is actually able to begin contruction, but neighbors are fighting hardest.

Linda Buck isn't the loudest resident of the Roosevelt neighborhood—where a community group boos and hisses at any dissenters at meetings—but no one will be affected more than her if the Seattle Ciyy Council does the right thing and allows six-story buildings next to a light-rail station:

"You are asking me to leave my beautiful old home," says Buck, a silver-haired computer programmer who works at the University of Washington's applied physics lab. "And if I do leave it, I will leave it for something I believe in."

Read the whole thing in this week's paper.