Downtown Seattle Association VP of Advocacy, John Scholes, wrote a satirical post for Dan Bertolet's new blog, proposing that South Lake Union and Pioneer Square trade places—a send up of neighborhood groups in both places who are opposing rezones for different, but equally self-defeating reasons.

Perhaps everyone’s interests would be better served if the two neighborhoods switched places and just maybe we’d wind up with better urban neighborhoods and come closer to meeting our local and regional goals for transit oriented development and density.

The low slung historic buildings of Pioneer Square moved a few miles north would protect views of the Space Needle and Lake Union. Moved south, the red hot global health and life sciences sector and the even hotter Amazon campus would have tremendous access to transit, something they lack today in SLU.

I also like that Scholes makes note of the "the largest transit hub west of Chicago"—the transit constellation of King Street sounder Station and the Amtrak Union Station.

He leaves out, but should certainly add, the Chinatown light rail stop.