More on Puget Sound and Silly City

Installment #4, dealing with preservation of farmland (and salmon habitat) with Transfer of Development Rights (TDR). CLC is not the only agency trying to develop new approaches. Down on the Duwamish, a private company is trying to make a profit by doing environmental restoration.

Speaking of development, down in the Silly City, Tyrone Beason of the Times speaks for many when he asks the question of whether Seattle has become too rich for Seattleites. Nice article. Timely...for about 10 years ago. Seattle stopped being Seattle back in the 90s.

I remember a conversation I had at Pacific Place with a guy who was absolutely disgusted with the wholly un-Seattlelike mall and similar developments like Nike Town. He was from New York and said he'd last visited Seattle 10 years prior. He loved what he saw. The old neighborhoods. The kitcshy stores and mom and pops. The waterfront. The old Seattle Center. Now, he'd come back and he was horrified. Seattle had lost its soul, he said. I agreed and knew it was a hard case when a New Yorker could see that and most Seattleites couldn't.