In this week’s episode, Ray Dubicki tracks the last few weeks of Seattle City Council meetings to listen in as a fairly small amendment is made to the city’s comprehensive plan. It takes a lot of talking and hearings to get a preference for highway lids written into the document. Given the enormous potential of covering a highway with parks or housing, hopefully it’s worth it.
We do talk quite a bit about comprehensive plans as many cities in Washington are undertaking extensive updates. The process of following this – and any – legislation through council depends on a certain readiness to engage antiquated procedures, time consuming speeches, and jargon. Here’s a little bit of what to expect at a meeting and some insight to the stuff you don’t see.
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