Connor Stein
@connor-stein.bsky.social
Seattle-based architect interested in baugruppen, cooperative development, decommodified housing, & passive house construction.
looking forward to the time when 50% of my feed is no longer people arguing with will stancil
November 20, 2025 at 12:06 AM
looking forward to the time when 50% of my feed is no longer people arguing with will stancil
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Thanks Jason! I'm working on a more serious presentation to hopefully get the Seattle contingent of the ST Board interested, but our proposal is to run elevated all the way through downtown, SLU, and Seattle Center to Interbay. In theory this should cut the construction costs in half.
November 19, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Thanks Jason! I'm working on a more serious presentation to hopefully get the Seattle contingent of the ST Board interested, but our proposal is to run elevated all the way through downtown, SLU, and Seattle Center to Interbay. In theory this should cut the construction costs in half.
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We really need to stop being cowards and dream bigger for our public realms.
Alki can be not just car-light but car-free in some places if we actually tried. Lives genuinely depend on it.
Alki can be not just car-light but car-free in some places if we actually tried. Lives genuinely depend on it.
November 17, 2025 at 7:25 PM
We really need to stop being cowards and dream bigger for our public realms.
Alki can be not just car-light but car-free in some places if we actually tried. Lives genuinely depend on it.
Alki can be not just car-light but car-free in some places if we actually tried. Lives genuinely depend on it.
It's great that we amended the first phase of the comp plan to open up development in neighborhood residential zones, but we shouldn't be closing off existing pathways to building new homes.
Seattle is killing off DADUs unless you have an alley!
Being able to build in the rear yard was how DADUs were possible. If you need a 15 foot setback most DADUs will not work!!!
Need a fix before the one seattle plan vote!
@alexis4seattle.bsky.social
Being able to build in the rear yard was how DADUs were possible. If you need a 15 foot setback most DADUs will not work!!!
Need a fix before the one seattle plan vote!
@alexis4seattle.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 3:26 PM
It's great that we amended the first phase of the comp plan to open up development in neighborhood residential zones, but we shouldn't be closing off existing pathways to building new homes.
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Why?
- You get a safer transit system if more people use and rely on it.
- $275k buys a bunch of service hours for more buses, more places, more often.
- This directly duplicates the county, which runs Metro.
- Voters didn't vote for this in the STM renewal, stop messing with what we vote for.
- You get a safer transit system if more people use and rely on it.
- $275k buys a bunch of service hours for more buses, more places, more often.
- This directly duplicates the county, which runs Metro.
- Voters didn't vote for this in the STM renewal, stop messing with what we vote for.
November 17, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Why?
- You get a safer transit system if more people use and rely on it.
- $275k buys a bunch of service hours for more buses, more places, more often.
- This directly duplicates the county, which runs Metro.
- Voters didn't vote for this in the STM renewal, stop messing with what we vote for.
- You get a safer transit system if more people use and rely on it.
- $275k buys a bunch of service hours for more buses, more places, more often.
- This directly duplicates the county, which runs Metro.
- Voters didn't vote for this in the STM renewal, stop messing with what we vote for.
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This meeting kicks off at 9:30am and public comment is only by email so if you have a minute to email [email protected] (perhaps CC your individual councilmembers? You have three of them who represent you directly) to ask they vote against SDOT-041-A-1, I'd appreciate it.
The council is set to raid the transit funding again tomorrow to pay for Rob Saka's transit safety czar proposal.
November 17, 2025 at 2:59 PM
This meeting kicks off at 9:30am and public comment is only by email so if you have a minute to email [email protected] (perhaps CC your individual councilmembers? You have three of them who represent you directly) to ask they vote against SDOT-041-A-1, I'd appreciate it.
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The transfer of budget dollars from blue collar workers (bus drivers), who directly provide a service, to white collar professionals (transit safety czars), who narrate slide decks at council meetings, is a problem that needs to be reversed.
The council is set to raid the transit funding again tomorrow to pay for Rob Saka's transit safety czar proposal.
November 17, 2025 at 1:52 AM
The transfer of budget dollars from blue collar workers (bus drivers), who directly provide a service, to white collar professionals (transit safety czars), who narrate slide decks at council meetings, is a problem that needs to be reversed.
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The presentation will focus on the prefabrication of passive house straw-wood modules, which requires ZERO investment in tools. Caution: Afterwards, it will be very difficult to find excuses not to do it.
It's free, see you.
It's free, see you.
November 16, 2025 at 6:33 PM
The presentation will focus on the prefabrication of passive house straw-wood modules, which requires ZERO investment in tools. Caution: Afterwards, it will be very difficult to find excuses not to do it.
It's free, see you.
It's free, see you.
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If Clyde Hill can declare an emergency and block a developer from taking advantage of the middle housing code they already approved, it seems like Seattle should be able to declare an emergency and end apartment bans.
November 16, 2025 at 6:17 PM
If Clyde Hill can declare an emergency and block a developer from taking advantage of the middle housing code they already approved, it seems like Seattle should be able to declare an emergency and end apartment bans.
Seattle (& beyond!) architecture and urbanism people - @michaelburchert.bsky.social has kindly offered to host a virtual presentation on prefab straw panel building + Q&A.
Monday, Dec 1 at 11:00 am PST
Please fill out the interest form if you'd like to attend!
Monday, Dec 1 at 11:00 am PST
Please fill out the interest form if you'd like to attend!
Straw Panel Building with Michael Burchert
Regenerative construction educator, activist, and builder Michael Burchert will be presenting his method of machine-free straw panel fabrication along with an overview of various global straw panel ma...
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November 16, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Seattle (& beyond!) architecture and urbanism people - @michaelburchert.bsky.social has kindly offered to host a virtual presentation on prefab straw panel building + Q&A.
Monday, Dec 1 at 11:00 am PST
Please fill out the interest form if you'd like to attend!
Monday, Dec 1 at 11:00 am PST
Please fill out the interest form if you'd like to attend!
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During the election season I started doing short videos to try and reach the normies to push back against attacks on Katie Wilson. Seemed to have worked, so I kept at it. This one from yesterday on rail to West Seattle and Ballard has done huge numbers so far.
November 16, 2025 at 4:38 PM
During the election season I started doing short videos to try and reach the normies to push back against attacks on Katie Wilson. Seemed to have worked, so I kept at it. This one from yesterday on rail to West Seattle and Ballard has done huge numbers so far.
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it's insane that seattle's zoning policy is effectively just 'rezone the areas renters already live ever other decade'
so instead of inducing walkable areas, we induce urban cannibalism and massive buildings that consume almost entire lot w/ little privacy
so instead of inducing walkable areas, we induce urban cannibalism and massive buildings that consume almost entire lot w/ little privacy
November 16, 2025 at 3:13 AM
it's insane that seattle's zoning policy is effectively just 'rezone the areas renters already live ever other decade'
so instead of inducing walkable areas, we induce urban cannibalism and massive buildings that consume almost entire lot w/ little privacy
so instead of inducing walkable areas, we induce urban cannibalism and massive buildings that consume almost entire lot w/ little privacy
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We need wider or multiple lanes for people rolling. E-bikes, cargo bikes and scooters are getting more people out of cars. Maybe we should repurpose some car lanes for people rolling.
November 15, 2025 at 5:38 PM
We need wider or multiple lanes for people rolling. E-bikes, cargo bikes and scooters are getting more people out of cars. Maybe we should repurpose some car lanes for people rolling.
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We need a transportation approach in this city genuinely willing to lower the capacity of streets if we’re ever going to *actually* accomplish mode shift and Vision Zero. We cannot keep accommodating cars first.
November 14, 2025 at 9:04 PM
We need a transportation approach in this city genuinely willing to lower the capacity of streets if we’re ever going to *actually* accomplish mode shift and Vision Zero. We cannot keep accommodating cars first.
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"I want great safe public spaces where kids can run around with abandon"
Said the new Mayor of Seattle Katie Wilson yesterday, a woman of course. First time I've heard an executive say kids safety is a priority. She's going to change the City!
Said the new Mayor of Seattle Katie Wilson yesterday, a woman of course. First time I've heard an executive say kids safety is a priority. She's going to change the City!
We’re spending a rainy Friday getting ready for next week’s Netherlands launch. Copies of Women Changing Cities are stamped, signed, and ready to go!*
Want to secure your own copy? There are still a few book+tickets available. Reserve yours today via Eventbrite!
bit.ly/3Lq1Ev5
*Cat not included 🐈⬛
Want to secure your own copy? There are still a few book+tickets available. Reserve yours today via Eventbrite!
bit.ly/3Lq1Ev5
*Cat not included 🐈⬛
November 14, 2025 at 2:45 PM
"I want great safe public spaces where kids can run around with abandon"
Said the new Mayor of Seattle Katie Wilson yesterday, a woman of course. First time I've heard an executive say kids safety is a priority. She's going to change the City!
Said the new Mayor of Seattle Katie Wilson yesterday, a woman of course. First time I've heard an executive say kids safety is a priority. She's going to change the City!
Mayor-Elect Wilson, bring back the congestion pricing study! The average Seattle-area driver loses 87 hours of their life each year sitting in traffic. That's over 3.5 days.
Think about what you're missing out on. Books read, meals shared. That's time you'll never get back.
Think about what you're missing out on. Books read, meals shared. That's time you'll never get back.
How much time Seattle-area traffic costs drivers
A new report shows Seattle-area traffic is worse than before the pandemic, especially midday.
www.axios.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Mayor-Elect Wilson, bring back the congestion pricing study! The average Seattle-area driver loses 87 hours of their life each year sitting in traffic. That's over 3.5 days.
Think about what you're missing out on. Books read, meals shared. That's time you'll never get back.
Think about what you're missing out on. Books read, meals shared. That's time you'll never get back.
Wow, fucking thanks Bruce Harrell. There should be no kind words spoken about his concession speech yesterday. He opened the door to this line of thought and has validated it.
Mike Solan, SPD guild president, issued a statement openly questioning the validity of the votes for Katie Wilson.
Solan's embrace of the far right & SPD's history of aggression could make a dangerous situation if the national guard is sent to #Seattle.
www.theurbanist.org/2021/01/12/b...
Solan's embrace of the far right & SPD's history of aggression could make a dangerous situation if the national guard is sent to #Seattle.
www.theurbanist.org/2021/01/12/b...
November 14, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Wow, fucking thanks Bruce Harrell. There should be no kind words spoken about his concession speech yesterday. He opened the door to this line of thought and has validated it.
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Mayor Wilson’s first action should be to cancel Bruce Harrell’s rushed cop contract
Mike Solan, SPD guild president, issued a statement openly questioning the validity of the votes for Katie Wilson.
Solan's embrace of the far right & SPD's history of aggression could make a dangerous situation if the national guard is sent to #Seattle.
www.theurbanist.org/2021/01/12/b...
Solan's embrace of the far right & SPD's history of aggression could make a dangerous situation if the national guard is sent to #Seattle.
www.theurbanist.org/2021/01/12/b...
November 14, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Mayor Wilson’s first action should be to cancel Bruce Harrell’s rushed cop contract
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Katie Wilson has been elected Seattle's next mayor
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Katie Wilson elected Seattle’s next mayor
Wilson took a 1,976-vote lead over Bruce Harrell. With a maximum of 1,320 ballots remaining, it is mathematically impossible for Harrell to catch up.
www.seattletimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Katie Wilson has been elected Seattle's next mayor
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
A project in my neighborhood I'd love to see under the Wilson admin: Stone Way redesign to remove street parking and add protected bike lanes. It currently has 3 vehicle lanes plus street parking on each side. New protected bike lanes would link green lake to the burke & lake union loop.
November 12, 2025 at 3:12 PM
A project in my neighborhood I'd love to see under the Wilson admin: Stone Way redesign to remove street parking and add protected bike lanes. It currently has 3 vehicle lanes plus street parking on each side. New protected bike lanes would link green lake to the burke & lake union loop.
is it too late to make the Talaris ecodistrict now that we have a good mayor
November 12, 2025 at 5:34 AM
is it too late to make the Talaris ecodistrict now that we have a good mayor
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Congratulations to our Mayor-elect, @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social!
#ThisIsOurCity
#Seattle #SEAElex #SeattleElex #KCElex #WAElex
#ThisIsOurCity
#Seattle #SEAElex #SeattleElex #KCElex #WAElex
November 12, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Congratulations to our Mayor-elect, @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social!
#ThisIsOurCity
#Seattle #SEAElex #SeattleElex #KCElex #WAElex
#ThisIsOurCity
#Seattle #SEAElex #SeattleElex #KCElex #WAElex
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Build the Passivhaus Social Housing in Windermere, @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social
Katie Wilson's win, plus the massive margins of victory for three progressive City Council candidates (just one incumbent) and a progressive City Attorney candidate suggest an overwhelming mandate for bold policy initiatives on housing and public safety. Let's go, Seattle!
November 12, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Build the Passivhaus Social Housing in Windermere, @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social
This just in—sincerity, earnestness, and hope are Good Actually!
November 12, 2025 at 1:18 AM
This just in—sincerity, earnestness, and hope are Good Actually!
holy shit lets goooooo
November 12, 2025 at 12:05 AM
holy shit lets goooooo