While everyone else obsesses about the threat from the Phoenix Suns to move his NBA team to Las Vegas or Seattle, here’s the local scoop.
Wednesday news roundup
No, it wasn’t your imagination: yesterday was the darkest day in years.
Catching up on the backyard cottages legislation
Back in October, the city issued its final environmental impact statement (FEIS) on proposed legislation loosening rules on building “backyard cottages” in single-family zones in Seattle, as well as a Racial Equity Toolkit evaluation of the impact of the legislation on racial disparities in the city. To no one’s surprise, an appeal has been filed against the FEIS — but the city is fighting back.
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Robart approves briefing schedule change, but asks for more details
This morning Judge James Robart, who presides over the city’s consent decree with the DOJ over biased policing, issued an order granting the DOJ more time to file its brief. But he also ordered the city to hand over several additional documents that dive into the details of the SPD disciplinary/appeals process and the recently-signed Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) with the police officers’ union.
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Tuesday news roundup
UW’s new campus master plan, and more.
Notes from today’s Council meetings
A lot was said, a few things were done.
First in Time tenant-rights ordinance headed to the state Supreme Court
Last week the Washington State Supreme Court agreed to hear an appeal of a lower court ruling on the city’s “First in time” ordinance that requires landlords to accept the first qualified tenant who applies for a vacant rental unit.
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Monday news roundup
A quiet start to a rainy week.
This week in Council Chambers
Wrapping things up before the December recess…
DOJ asks Robart to amend briefing schedule
In the aftermath of Judge James Robart’s bombshell order earlier this week asking the City of Seattle and the DOJ to explain why he shouldn’t find that the city has fallen out of compliance with the Consent Decree, today both parties jointly asked Robart to amend his order and allow more time for briefings to be filed. the DOJ asked Robart, with the city’s assent, to allow more time for it to file its briefing.