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		<title>Copenhagen&#8217;s Potato Rows</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 12:31:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alyse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent blog written by Justin Martin of SvR Design caught my attention and brought back some fond memories of Copenhagen. I decided to pull out my external hard drive and find my own photos of Copenhagen’s “Potato Rows” – a community of townhouses in the Østerbro neighborhood that was built in the 1800s as housing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How do you define &#8216;Smart Growth?&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Dec 2010 00:50:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kaid Benfield (director, Sustainable Communities and Smart Growth for the National Resources Defense Council; co-founder, LEED for Neighborhood Development rating system; co-founder, Smart Growth America coalition and author of Once There Were Greenfields and other books) has called for a reexamination of how we talk about Smart Growth, which begs the question: What does Smart [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Action Alert: Ensure Council Designates Funding for Bike/Ped Projects</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:45:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paul</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This next Monday, October 26, Seattle City Council will be considering whether or not to repeal the Employee Hours Tax (aka, the “Head Tax”). Regardless of how you feel about the repeal of the tax, the potential loss of a funding mechanism for Bridging the Gap sends a dangerous signal about Seattle’s transportation priorities. The Mayor has stated he wants to make Seattle into the most pedestrian- and bicycle-friendly city in the United States. This is the time for us to walk our talk! The improvements identified by both plans make it safer for our children to walk to school and in their neighborhood. They help our seniors to continue to be mobile. They help us reduce our reliance on the automobile and reduce our carbon footprint. They also ensure the health of our business districts and other community places.  

Please email city council members today and urge them to allocate funding sources for bike and pedestrian infrastructure. And if you are free, please consider attending the city council hearing on Monday at 5:30 pm at the Council Chambers in City Hall.]]></description>
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		<title>Great City Releases Land Use White Paper</title>
		<link>http://www.greatcity.org/2009/10/21/great-city-releases-land-use-white-paper/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:11:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paul</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.greatcity.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/seattle-overview-skyline-sunrise-full1.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-3178" title="seattle-overview-skyline-sunrise-full1" src="http://www.greatcity.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/seattle-overview-skyline-sunrise-full1.jpg" alt="" width="440" height="293" /></a>

<span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Yesterday, Great  City released a <a href="http://www.greatcity.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/great_city_land-use-white-paper.pdf" target="_blank"><strong>Land Use White Paper</strong></a> to the campaigns, city council, planning commission, and city leadership. The impetus for the paper was the belief that Seattle is being presented the urgent opportunity to be bold and visionary with its land use policy. Freshly elected officials, a new administration, and an economic recession that has temporarily slowed new development will provide the city a chance to reevaluate its current approach to planning and development. </span></span>

<span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">It is Great City’s goal to widen the dialogue on land use, both during what remains of the campaign season and into a new administration. The white paper issues a broad challenge to Seattle’s leadership and citizenry while also providing some recommended strategies to create a more livable, economically vibrant, and socially just city. We look forward to working in partnership with new and existing leadership, the city, the non-profit community, and our citizens to do just this.</span></span>

<strong> </strong><strong><a href="http://www.greatcity.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/great_city_land-use-white-paper.pdf" target="_blank">great_city_land-use-white-paper.pdf</a></strong> (Small PDF)

<em>Seattle Sunrise photo via <a href="http://artslink.wordpress.com/2009/05/11/summer-courses-to-explore/">artslink.com</a></em>]]></description>
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