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- verb US, transitive To
rezone for moreintensive use.
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On the Seattle side, yes, we can put in a rail station over 520 right at montlake or at the hop in, and it could run aover freeway to eastlake then slu. btw why shouldn't we upzone parts of montlake that are already commercial and nearby parts of eastlake?
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Hey, were is Mr GGLO to tell me he needs me to upzone those ugly buses to pretty trains. kurisu
McGinn to Roll Out Walk, Bike, Ride Initiative Tuesday « PubliCola 2010
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(BTW how is that upzone going to work without high-capacity transit?)
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Lots of people like density, I wish my neighborhood had more of it, but if you don't there are plenty of places to live that as wide open as can be. bring it on at your next neighborhood meeting convince your neighbors to upzone to L2 - that should get you the density you desire. if you are looking for density for yourself, Belltown has a lot to offer.
Puget Sound Sees 50 Percent Decline in New Households « PubliCola 2010
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Until then I will be driving the least polluting vehicle that serves my NEEDS, and not upzone your mass transit to pretty up your upzones.
Energy, Transportation, and Land Use Patterns « PubliCola 2010
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SLUT is beating its ridership forecasts, and will get a big boost when Amazon opens up and an upzone happens.
Council Endorses Longer First Hill Streetcar Route; Sound Transit Funding Unlikely « PubliCola 2010
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He says "Also, as Seattle has found in its Sound Transit stations, you can only get them sited in existing neighborhoods if you promise not to upzone, not to build parking lots, not to have bus connectors."
Brewster’s Half-Baked Argument Against Light Rail « PubliCola 2010
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Just because you upzone and allow more units do not make the project pencil when there is NO DEMAND due to the lack of job growth in the foreseeable future of at least 3 years and no banks will make loans on CRE unless they have been drinking some methanol and gone blind (ahh the good old days).
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Did the Council vote on the proposed upzone around that station?
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Hey, were is Mr GGLO to tell me he needs me to upzone those ugly buses to pretty trains. kurisu
McGinn to Roll Out Walk, Bike, Ride Initiative Tuesday « PubliCola 2010
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In Seattle, activists have been instrumental in pushing to the city to “upzone” – or allow higher density building – in neighbourhoods including the University District.
Rise of the yimbys: the angry millennials with a radical housing solution Erin McCormick 2020
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