August 2022 news & updates
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PAW August Webinar: Missed Opportunities: Assessing and Leveraging Requirements, Incentives & Trade-Offs in Affordable Housing Development. |
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This webinar will focus on Up for Growth's recently released policy brief, Missed Opportunities: Assessing and Leveraging Requirements, Incentives & Trade-Offs in Affordable Housing Development. A multi-stakeholder coalition is emerging that supports building more mixed-income housing and ensuring lasting affordability. Come join the Washington State Department of Commerce to learn how policymakers can more effectively leverage tax policy to accomplish these twin objectives to achieve housing equity and create more affordable homes.
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Board & Ex-Officio Member-Baby Photo Match Answers |
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1: Pete Dickinson, PAW Secretary, Planning Director (Retired) - City of Pullman
2: Michelle Thompson, CLG Coordinator and Main Street Design Specialist - Department of Archaeology + Historic Preservation
3: Amanda Tanio, Vice President, Principal - Upward 7 Consulting
4: Marla Powers, PAW President, Environmental Planner - Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe
5: Mary Reinbold, AICP, Senior Planner - Washington State Department of Commerce
6: Alex Wenger, Treasurer, Economic Development and Tourism Coordinator - City of Blaine
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Preservation Perspectives
By Michelle Thompson
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Hi Everyone,
Have you ever looked at an old house and wondered “why does it look that way, I wonder when it was built, is that all original, or what kind of roof is that?” Well, to answer these questions and many more, I recommend you get yourself a copy of A Field Guide to American Houses, by Virginia McAlester. This book is quintessential for anyone who is interested in old houses. I keep a copy at my desk and one in my car (just in case I have an old house identification emergency!) This book is a true field guide. It is organized chronologically, contains loads of photos and illustrations, and is full of the types of historic homes you would see in actual neighborhoods, not just fancy mansions! If you’re not concerned about getting weird looks, you can pull out your McAlester and take yourself on a self-guided tour around any historic neighborhood. Paperback copies are usually inexpensive and can be found online. Click here for a preview: https://bit.ly/3Ia6rLq
-Michelle
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Planning for Climate Change and Wildfire Resiliency: Eastern Washington University’s Urban and Regional Planning Program Partners with the Town of Malden, Washington |
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Matthew B. Anderson (Professor and Director, Urban and Regional Planning, Eastern Washington University)
Lauren A. Stachowiak (Associate Professor, Geosciences, Eastern Washington University)
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Pictured Above: Kurtis Johnson, Dr Matt Anderson, and Damalie Ndamira
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Every year, the second-year students in the Master of Urban and Regional Planning (MURP) Program at Eastern Washington University (EWU) take the 2-course sequence called the “Advanced Planning Studio.” Ideally, the students work with faculty guidance and partner with a community on a planning-related project that should result in a planning document of some kind. These products can be updates to a town or city’s comprehensive plan, sustainability action plan, affordable housing policies, growth management, and the like. For this past year’s studio, we partnered with the Town of Malden, WA, which burned down in the 2020 Labor Day Firestorm. The “Babb Road Fire” which raged through northern Whitman County, WA, consumed more than 15,000 acres of Palouse farmland and habitat and completely engulfed the towns of Malden and Pine City forcing nearly 200 residents to evacuate. The fire destroyed 80 percent of Malden’s buildings, many down to their foundations. Among the rubble was the majority of homes and the town’s only post office, town hall, fire station, food bank, and library. Every home with lawns at or above 12 inches tall was lost, and those with wood or asphalt shingles faired worse than those with metal rooves – metal roofing protects homes ahead of a spreading front from embers falling from the sky. |
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San Juans Adopt Island-by-Island Vacation Rental Cap
By Nancy Devaux
Salish Current
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A unanimous vote by the San Juan County Commission to cap the number of permits the county will allow for short-term vacation rentals followed testimony from more than 90 citizens at a public hearing today (May 17).
The culture of each of the three main islands (San Juan, Orcas and Lopez islands) was incorporated into the decision setting a cap for each island.
In discussions over the past few years, citizens from Orcas Island have been most vocal in supporting the existing moratorium and a permit cap [Ed.: See details below]. Much of their testimony spoke to the negative impacts of vacation rentals (VRs), felt especially keenly in certain neighborhoods: loss of the feeling of community, no available housing for long-term renters and impacts on water systems and small private road systems.
Conversely, many citizens from San Juan Island opposed limits. Owners of vacation rental properties and people who work in property management appeared to have organized, many stating similar words—“I’m against moratoriums and caps”—and expressing the need to support tourism as the basis of the economy.
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Thank you to our 2022 PAW Annual Sponsors! |
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ANNUAL SUPPORTING SPONSORS |
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