The 1.3-acre park will now regularly have games, food trucks, concerts and art installations, according to a city release. Two park rangers will also be staffed during all open hours.
A 1.3 acre park needs a regular staffing of 2 rangers during all open hours? Kind of seems like special treatment for this park.
I scanned through it and it seems like they’re at least focused in the right areas. Safety and getting people to actually live downtown so it’s not just dead outside of working hours is definitely the right way to go. We’ll see if any of this actually works though.
Rent control doesn’t address the root of our housing problems: a lack of available high-density housing. NIMBY homeowners have made it illegal to build new apartment complexes and condos via strict zoning laws. They’ve artificially restricted the supply of housing in order to jack up their own property values.
If a town has 80 apartments while 100 families need housing, rent control does nothing for the 20 families who can’t find an apartment when it’s illegal to meaningfully increase the supply of housing.
Housing in Seattle will continue to be fucked until we reform our zoning laws.
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