If you didn’t follow the One Seattle Plan public commentary at this morning’s city council meeting, you missed out. According to these people, Upzoning is actually redlining and will kill orcas. They totally support more housing, just not in *their* neighborhoods.

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1. Erica C. Barnett on Bluesky quoting public comment: “just want to highlight this comment, which came during a string of people suggesting that apartment housing was directly responsible for the recent death of a baby orca, to illustrate the lengths to which incumbent homeowners will go to keep renters out of ‘their’ neighborhoods.

A woman says allowing more people to live in more parts of Seattle will create a ‘gulag of hardscape … a barren, denuded landscape with no trees to filter polluted air and no bird songs to heal the soul.’

1. Ryan Packer on Bluesky quoting public comment: “Next commenter is questioning why Seattle needs to create capacity for 330,000 new units, a number that includes existing capacity.

They are citing…Danny Westneat’s column about Seattle’s ‘record’ housing growth.”

1. Ryan Packer on Bluesky quoting public comment: “Commenter Henry from Montlake says the plan is a ‘clever form of redlining.’”

“I think this proposal will destroy neighborhoods,” he says, and wants to ban vacation rentals instead.

1. Ryan Packer on Bluesky quoting public comment: “I appreciate the effort to create affordable housing, we all need that…but at what cost?,” the next commenter says.

Another reference to the dead orca calf.”