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Matt Hutchins AIA CPHD

@matthutchins.bsky.social

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Principal at CAST architecture, urbanist and Planning Commission Co-Chair advocating for housing options, 15-minute cities and sustainable construction. Passivhaus designer. Former AIA Seattle President

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Matt Hutchins AIA CPHD @matthutchins.bsky.social · Jul 16

With the Manito Six in Spokane, we have proof of concept that stacked flats are viable to develop, give residents a wonderful quality of living, and fit nicely in established neighborhoods. Contact me about bringing stacked flat/middle housing to your neighborhood!

Manito Six in Spokane by CAST architecture/Matt Hutchins/Heritage Housing Company

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Matt Hutchins AIA CPHD @matthutchins.bsky.social · 6h

If you are the FA in Antifa, then F U.

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Matt Hutchins AIA CPHD @matthutchins.bsky.social · 7h

The stairs. It has a cast in place runnel. Or I loop around Hamilton viewpoint.

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Matt Hutchins AIA CPHD @matthutchins.bsky.social · 18h

A lot less for my e-bike!

Matt Hutchins AIA CPHD @matthutchins.bsky.social · 22h

You do great work! Thank you for your commitment and craft!

Matt Hutchins AIA CPHD @matthutchins.bsky.social · 1d

Oh okay that’s way better.

Matt Hutchins AIA CPHD @matthutchins.bsky.social · 1d

Is CM Strauss nude?

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Matt Hutchins AIA CPHD @matthutchins.bsky.social · 4d

Intermittent parking on both sides. In neighborhood centers, the goal should be street level pedestrian commerce and place making. Car level of service should be ‘F’

Matt Hutchins AIA CPHD @matthutchins.bsky.social · 4d

I would remove two lanes, remove 1/2 the parking, make the other half 30 min/loading, add 12’ to each sidewalk for cafes and plant 2 rows of street trees.

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Matt Hutchins AIA CPHD @matthutchins.bsky.social · 4d

I see opportunity for stacked flats in NR. It will come when you have the right site, right neighborhood, and aligned development goals. We've already proved the housing type works with our Manito sixplex, which has both workforce and market leading rents.

www.theurbanist.org/2025/10/03/s...

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Matt Hutchins AIA CPHD @matthutchins.bsky.social · 5d

This coin dates the end of the republic

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 5d

US Treasurer Brandon Beach has confirmed this is happening. This is what Republicans are working on as the government is shut down.

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Matt Hutchins AIA CPHD @matthutchins.bsky.social · 6d

congrats!!! beautiful!

Matt Hutchins AIA CPHD @matthutchins.bsky.social · 7d

OMG, can Harrell point to one policy that required a spine that he went all in on?

Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 7d

In his closing statement, Harrell said, "This is not the time for hope. Passion and great ideas and inexperience is just not going to get us there. Trump will walk all over a person without experience, period."

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Matt Hutchins AIA CPHD @matthutchins.bsky.social · 7d

What I imagine it will feel like next year when I roll off the Seattle Planning Commission.

Matt Hutchins AIA CPHD @matthutchins.bsky.social · 8d

Greeting from Democratic hellhole Seattle! Antifa meeting or a magnificent dinner with friends on a crystal clear fall evening?!?

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Matt Hutchins AIA CPHD @matthutchins.bsky.social · 8d

this plan is missing en suite bathrooms for every bedroom and massive walk-in closets.

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Matt Hutchins AIA CPHD @matthutchins.bsky.social · 8d

they just presented to the Planning Commission, and It is years away from any implementation....

www.theurbanist.org/2025/09/17/s...

Seattle Narrows Down Options for Initial ‘Low Pollution Neighborhoods’ » The Urbanist

# The Seattle Department of Transportation is eyeing seven neighborhoods with high rates of pollution, low car ownership rates, and high collision intersections, such as South Park, Lake City, and Cap...

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Matt Hutchins AIA CPHD @matthutchins.bsky.social · 8d

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Matt Hutchins AIA CPHD @matthutchins.bsky.social · 8d

This is why I’ve been trying to reform design review for a decade and generally oppose more new city regs. This isn’t benign bureaucracy—it ossifies into a tool for capricious delay and to extract reductions in dev capacity.

Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 9d

I watched a design review hearing for a planned grocery store-anchored housing development in Wedgwood tonight and it definitely reminded me why we shouldn't let volunteer boards of architects dictate every detail of building design

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Matt Hutchins AIA CPHD @matthutchins.bsky.social · 11d

It’s only foundations at this point

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Matt Hutchins AIA CPHD @matthutchins.bsky.social · 11d

Yes, we’ll see way more of those!

Matt Hutchins AIA CPHD @matthutchins.bsky.social · 11d

two ADUs attached to each other, in the backyard. It has only been legal in seattle for about 3 months.

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Matt Hutchins AIA CPHD @matthutchins.bsky.social · 11d

Saw my first ADU duplex today in the wild. There are going to be a few of those under the latest iteration of the zoning

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Matt Hutchins AIA CPHD @matthutchins.bsky.social · 12d

Did Brittney singlehanded change the course of Mariners history? I think so!

Brittney Bush Bollay @brittneybush.bsky.social · Nov 13

I make Cal Raleigh's dumper bigger every day until the Mariners extend him: Day 1

Matt Hutchins AIA CPHD @matthutchins.bsky.social · 13d

30% Tariff on Upholstered Furniture?

10 bucks says he is just naming items in his office.

Soon, 40% tariffs on Lamp.

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