I have been wondering if the character of the city already changed a lot and I missed it. I got onto next-door for my neighborhood, and I see people freaking out about a construction project to replace a duplex with 24 units and no parking!!

Naturally they are outraged. The street parking which the city provides free of charge is already hard to get to, and now 24 more people are coming in!! I emailed DPD to see what I could do to help the project get over any hurdles.

I thought this kind of construction was illegal in Seattle. I thought we had a law requiring parking space for every dwelling unit. Did the law change and I didn't get the memo? Or was that never the law? I looked at the DPD map and found another project like it, 30 units with no parking!! Build more like this and we will see some change I can believe in.

Here's me mocking the next-door post:
http://bodybuildingelf.blogspot.com/2016…

Here's the project
http://www.seattle.gov/dpd/shapingseattl…

And here's the other one:
http://www.seattle.gov/dpd/shapingseattl…

with these beautiful words that I never thought I would see on a Seattle.gov land use proposal: "Since the site has frequent transit access no parking for cars will be required or provided. Bicycle storage inside the building is proposed with the preferred option."

Are they sneaking this in? Am I fucking it up by talking about it? Is my desire to celebrate way too early?

Most importantly, can someone with more experience in this tell me how many hurdles these projects have to go through and what I can do to help?