As 47 people run for City Council in Tuesday’s primary election, the idea of allowing duplexes and triplexes across Seattle’s single-family neighborhoods is dying on arrival at City Hall.
“City Hall is coming our way,” reads the election mailer, the words imposed over a giant bulldozer aiming its menacing blade at an unsuspecting home behind a hedge.
It was probably inevitable that Seattle’s election would turn into a referendum on our dizzying growth and development. And has it ever in the past few weeks.
“It comes up again and again, every time we’re out campaigning,” says Seattle City Councilmember Tim Burgess, who is running for re-election.