Seattle May Actually Limit Anti-Housing Land Use Appeals; More People Will be Eligible for Utility Discounts

Seattle council expands utility discount program

People enrolled in the discount program can receive 60% off their Seattle City Light bills and 50% off Seattle Public Utilities bills.

Seattle City Council notes: environmental appeal reform, new City Light rates and expanded discount program, and why it is holding public hearings on bills it already passed

The Seattle City Council has a busy Wednesday schedule of public hearings and legislative updates as it wraps up business approaching the annual late-August summer break. Public hearings: The Seattle City Council has already acted on key pieces of legislation to put a pause on new data centers and speeding up the creation of shelter by legislating the expansion of tiny house villages in the city. Wednesday will bring separate public hearings on…

Seattle Council Committee Votes to Rein In Growth Plan Appeals

Seattle City Council's Land Use Committee voted 3-0 Wednesday to close off a regularly used avenue of citizen appeal when it comes to broad zoning changes and updates to the city's Comprehensive Plan. If approved by the full council next week, Councilmember Eddie Lin's Council Bill 121215 would prevent $120 appeals filed with the City's hearing examiner from holding up growth plan changes for months, if not years.The bill has an uncertain path w…

Seattle Shelves 80% MHA Fee Cut as Builders Say 30 Stalled Projects and 6,000 Homes Hang in the Balance

A nonprofit coalition’s abrupt reversal killed the summer timeline for Seattle’s proposed two-year Mandatory Housing Affordability fee reduction, stranding a compromise that market-rate builders spent four months negotiating and that they say would unlock roughly 6,000 permitted-but-frozen housing units across the city. The deal was done. Then it wasn’t. For four months, a coalition of roughly 30 developers operating as the Seattle Housing Round…

Seattle May Actually Limit Anti-Housing Land Use Appeals; More People Will be Eligible for Utility Discounts

1. The Seattle City Council’s land use committee will vote tomorrow on a proposal, from Councilmember Eddie Lin, to…