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On Other Blogs Today: Trash Strike, Living Buildings, How the Other Half Lives, and More
Our daily roundup:
1) As the trash strike drags on, Waste Management workers in Burlington are refusing to cross picket lines, KOMO News reports.
2) The Seattle Bubble reports that home prices in Seattle have increased more than the national average, but not as much as other cities including Chicago, Atlanta, and San Francisco.
3) In Whatcom County, renters will be ineligible to receive funds dedicated to low-income housing, the Tacoma News Tribune reports. Only homebuyers need apply.
4) The city council has amended its (surprisingly controversial ) living building pilot program to allow a Fremont development, Stone34, to qualify for city incentives even though it doesn't meet all the standards of true "living buildings," which generate their own electricity and water supply.
City Council member Richard Conlin has more on his blog.
4) The LA Times explores "how to be a Seattle insider," doesn't venture south of downtown.
5) Transportation Choices Coalition takes a look at some of the more problematic proposals to save money on the Bellevue light rail route.
1) As the trash strike drags on, Waste Management workers in Burlington are refusing to cross picket lines, KOMO News reports.
2) The Seattle Bubble reports that home prices in Seattle have increased more than the national average, but not as much as other cities including Chicago, Atlanta, and San Francisco.
3) In Whatcom County, renters will be ineligible to receive funds dedicated to low-income housing, the Tacoma News Tribune reports. Only homebuyers need apply.
4) The city council has amended its (surprisingly controversial ) living building pilot program to allow a Fremont development, Stone34, to qualify for city incentives even though it doesn't meet all the standards of true "living buildings," which generate their own electricity and water supply.
City Council member Richard Conlin has more on his blog.
4) The LA Times explores "how to be a Seattle insider," doesn't venture south of downtown.
5) Transportation Choices Coalition takes a look at some of the more problematic proposals to save money on the Bellevue light rail route.
6) Hunts Point, an Eastside suburb near Bellevue that's home to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, has the richest retirees in the nation, according to Bloomberg.com.
The average household retirement income in the town, where 21 percent of residents are over 65, is just over $200,000, and the median house price is over $1 million, edging out the Village of Golf in Palm Beach, Florida.
