As mentioned in an earlier post, Seattle City Councilmember Sally Clark is holding community forum on proposed Washington State House Bill 1490, “Reducing greenhouse gas emissions through land use and transportation requirements”.
“Trains, Density & Change” is a community workshop to talk through the issues surrounding legislation in Olympia (HB 1490) dealing with Transit Oriented Development and affordable housing provisions in areas surrounding Light Rail stations.
The workshop is an opportunity to 1) give proponents and opponents of the legislation a chance to better explain their positions and goals, and 2) inform the public about what the legislation might mean for their neighborhoods.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center
104 17th Ave. S., Seattle, WA 98144
Format of the session will be:
Presentation (25 minutes)
– Stephen Antupit, Urban Land Institute
– Don Vehige, GGLO Architecture
– Bill LaBorde, Transportation Choices Coalition
– Rachel Meyers, Washington Low Income Housing Alliance
– John Fox, Seattle Displacement Coalition
Questions and comments from the public (1 hour)
If you’ve not been tracking this legislation and want to know what the current version of the Olympia bill contains, you can find a summary here.
This issue has been covered (the discussion gets pretty heated) in a number of on-line forums including: Sightline, the SLOG – here, here and here, Hugeasscity – here and here, and Rainer Valley Post.
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