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xio
@pxalvarez.bsky.social
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architect, resilience planner, turbo nerd™
giving up on planning and architecture, pivoting to birds and rocks
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Historic Seattle's January newsletter tells how they've just nominated for landmark status a structurally obsolete apartment building owned by YWCA, which will stall YWCA's plans to redevelop it into 83 new homes.

This is why the state needs to pass the landmarking reform bill HB 1443 / SB 5332.
January 31, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Seattle's vital federal funding remains under a freeze and Mayor Bruce Harrell's hosting a press event later today to tout the new lights that we've strung across Third Avenue. OK.
January 29, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Wiped Off the Map

A federal clerk’s error put more than 90,000 acres of Yakama Nation land in the hands of Washington state. The tribe wants it back.

grist.org/indigenous/s...

#WA #Yakama #Tribe #Washington
A filing error put more than 90,000 acres of Yakama Nation land in the hands of Washington state
More than 170 years later, the Yakama are still trying to get their land back.
grist.org
January 29, 2025 at 1:51 AM