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Tag Archives: Smart Growth & Density

Bellevue residents want more policies that encourage transit oriented development

Excerpt: Four promising ideas for catalyzing transit oriented development in the City of Bellevue enjoy broad and deep support among residents of Washington's fifth largest city, a survey conducted a few weeks ago for the Northwest Progressive Institute and the Bellevue Housing Research Coalition has found.
Published at:8:30 AM on Thursday, October 27th, 2022
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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Seattleites enthusiastic about making city’s streets more people-centric, NPI poll finds

Excerpt: Even when it comes to seemingly contentious transportation projects that require converting a lane or traffic or parking spaces, Seattle voters are overwhelmingly supportive, a poll recently conducted for the Northwest Progressive Institute finds.
Published at:11:30 AM on Wednesday, November 17th, 2021
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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Lynn Allen Award honoree Paul Lawrence: We need a resurgence of progressive activism

Excerpt: Read the text of Paul Lawrence's Lynn Allen Awards acceptance speech, delivered at NPI's 2017 Spring Fundraising Gala.
Published at:8:00 PM on Saturday, May 20th, 2017
Written by:Paul Lawrence
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Revised transportation package clears Washington State Senate on bipartisan vote

Excerpt: Moments ago, the Wash­ing­ton State Sen­ate took yet anoth­er sig­nif­i­cant vote, this time con­cern­ing trans­porta­tion rev­enue. By an over­whelm­ing four-to-one mar­gin, the Sen­ate vot­ed to approve SB 5987, which would raise the gas tax and vehi­cle weight fees to pay for a long list of high­way projects, a short­er list of rail, bike, and pedes­tri­an […]
Published at:7:42 PM on Monday, June 29th, 2015
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
Categories:Our Environment, Policy Topics, Public Planning
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Bellevue City Council votes to approve East Link agreement with Sound Transit

Excerpt: Sound Tran­sit’s East Link project has just moved one major step clos­er to becom­ing a real­i­ty. After many months of dis­cus­sion and nego­ti­a­tion, Belle­vue’s City Coun­cil has vot­ed unan­i­mous­ly to autho­rize the city to enter into a Mem­o­ran­dum of Under­stand­ing (MOU) with Sound Tran­sit regard­ing the project, one of sev­er­al major expan­sions of the Link […]
Published at:12:19 AM on Tuesday, November 15th, 2011
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
Categories:Policy Topics, Public Planning
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Peter Steinbrueck: Our fractured metropolis (Text of the keynote from NPI’s 2011 gala)

Excerpt: Edi­tor’s Note: Fol­low­ing the con­clu­sion of our Spring Fundrais­ing Gala a few days ago, we have been asked if we could make the text of Peter Stein­brueck­’s keynote speech avail­able. He has kind­ly agreed to do so; what fol­lows are a pol­ished ver­sion of his pre­pared remarks, deliv­ered on April 28th at the Com­mu­ni­ty Cen­ter […]
Published at:6:09 PM on Monday, May 9th, 2011
Written by:Peter Steinbrueck
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