I too would like to get to my tech job without leaving the neighborhood. Fremont became something of a hub for tech companies, I’d love to see Col. City do the same. I don’t know how much affect the mayor can have on that happening however.

McGinn supports creating big TOD overlay zones that will will change the zoning in our single-family neighborhoods. Taxes will go up as the zoning density goes up. That will displace low-income residents, forcing low-income and minority residents to leave the community, demolishing modest, affordable homes, and rebuilding new, dense, and more expensive housing units. “Preservation is the highest form of sustainability”, but McGinn doesn’t subscribe to preserving affordability by retaining our older housing stock. Instead, he supports radical redevelopment, but only in SE Seattle. What McGinn supports amounts to social engineering, aka ‘gentrification’.

Why isn’t McGinn showing an interest in TOD housing in other busy transit arterials in Seattle? You know like 35th SW? Or, Aurora Avenue North? Or, Lake City Way? Or, 15th NW in Ballard? These are busy arterials that are underdeveloped with housing. TOD would be perfect in many north Seattle neighborhoods so why the focus on only SE? We”re already more densely populated than West Seattle. Southeast Seattle neighborhoods are at least 75% of the way to meeting our 2024 Growth Management Act population density goals. Other Seattle neighborhoods have done next to nothing about compliance with the state’s GMA goals. Why no push for TOD in those neighborhoods that have fallen behind creating more housing density?

The answer is; light rail ridership is well below expectations and the politicians expect SE Seattle residents to accept more density in order to increase ridership. Never mind about economic development or quality of life in our neighborhoods. With McGinn, we’re just going to get more, denser, housing development.

No thanks, Mike.

@Tom T – Assuming they are paying a rental fee, I don’t see the problem with that.