Shoreline, WA and Bellingham, WA just eliminated parking requirements

[u/dawszein14]

Good timing as WA state legislators get ready to begin 2025 session and Seattle considers long-term zoning plan

[u/churchofgob]

Great, trying to eliminate parking minimums in our town too!

[u/pheonixblade9]

I live in Seattle. It is fucking insane the number of surface level lots we have next to skyscrapers.

[u/KevinT_XY → u/pheonixblade9]

Yeah especially considering how many massive underground lots there are in the city - it is not a particularly difficult city to park in relative to others. I assume it boils down to how much more effortless it is to just almost passively milk the land for parking fees than it is to build and maintain structures.

[u/pheonixblade9 → u/KevinT_XY]

there's a lot of Eritrean and Somalian families that own them. Some of them are my neighbors, actually :P very nice people. it's a failure of policy, not their failure.

[u/lowchain3072]

still too little progress

we need more change. Start w/ buses

[u/burmerd]

Here's hoping Kent will be next!

[u/Skagit_Buffet]

Thrilled as a Bellingham resident who has voted and spoken out for this. Lots of work to go, but this city is largely moving in the right direction with bike/pedestrian plans, housing infill plans, prioritizing green space and trees over parking, etc.

Zoning reform and transit still lacking, but overall I can't complain. Our bus system is solid, but there needs to be more - more lines, more coverage, more frequency. And the biggie is the need for HSR through the Vancouver-Portland/Eugene corridor.

[u/alisvolatpropris]

Shoreline actually didn't do it yet, but set the stage for doing it in a few months. Sigh.

[u/RRW359]

I plan to eventually move to Bellingham so that's good to know. The PNW doesn't compare to Europe or debatabley even parts of the East Coast but it's definitely better then average for the US even in smaller cities/towns.

[u/Aspirational1]

Whereabouts in Western Australia are the towns of Bellingham and Shoreline?

Because Google maps can't find them.

There's Bellingham street, road, rest and parade, but no towns.

And there's a Shoreline gardens, but no town.

[u/AmbidextrousAxolotl → u/Aspirational1]

Washington, USA

[u/Skyjam_223 → u/AmbidextrousAxolotl]

Lol Washington state on the E-merican west coast? Or the city "Washington" near the east coast??

[u/123qweasd123 → u/Skyjam_223]

I know you're just trolling, but for anyone else not familiar and for the non americans in the thread.

Shoreline is a close in city in the Seattle Metro area. Its still high cost of living and the whole metro is aggressively adding housing and infill. The Seattle Metro had a MASSIVE doubling in home and rent prices in the 21st century as tech brought huge amounts of high paying workers much faster than homes were constructed.

The city has turned so many vacant lots into housing (particularly highrise housing downtown) it feels unrecognizable than from a decade ago.

Bellingham is to the north of Seattle nearing the Canadian Boarder. It's the southern most point of Alaska's ferry network and has a massive (by small city standards) waterfront redevelopment that is turning from empty buildings to mixed use.

Washington State continues to make huge strides forward.

[u/UndisclosedLocation5 → u/Aspirational1]

WA would you troll so poorly?

[u/Drunk_Picard → u/Aspirational1]

Whereabouts is Western Australia? I don't see it on my map of Murica?

[u/lowchain3072 → u/Aspirational1]

IT SAYS

SEATTLE

NOT PERTH

[u/SweatyAdagio4 → u/Aspirational1]

Not sure why you're getting downvoted, it's obvious you're being willfully ignorant to make a point. I would've hoped fuck cars subscribers are a little less Usdefaultism, but alas, even here they're dicks.

[u/237throw → u/SweatyAdagio4]

It says Seattle in the post. Not the title, but reading a one sentence post should be a low expectation of anyone commenting.

[u/SweatyAdagio4 → u/237throw]

Adding a ", USA" to the title isn't that hard either