The City of Seattle will likely ban oversized RVs from parking overnight in most parts of the city. That is, if the mayor signs the City Council’s legislation. Meanwhile, news of the possible change is trickling down to the people who live in those RVs.
https://www.kuow.org/governing/2026-10-22/as-mayor-considers-signing-rv-restrictions-people-living-in-rvs-consider-their-futures
#KUOW #News #SeattleCityCouncil #SeattleNews #HousingAndHomeless #Government
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People living in RVs would no longer be able to park overnight on Seattle streets unless they obtain a special permit, under new rules passed by the City Council Tuesday. The Council voted to limit unpermitted RVs to a maximum of two hours of street parking, beginning next year. Opponents, and a few supporters, said the legislation is an imperfect response to the city’s homelessness crisis.
https://www.kuow.org/governing/2026-10-20/seattle-city-council-restricts-overnight-rv-parking-adds-shelter-space
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Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson answered questions Tuesday about gun violence, outstanding investigations in which police still haven’t made arrests, and polling that shows a growing sense of insecurity among Seattleites when it comes to public safety.
https://www.kuow.org/crime/2026-10-14/seattle-mayor-wilson-says-shes-working-as-fast-as-possible-to-implement-gun-violence-plan
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Seattle City Councilmember Dan Strauss is leading the charge on a proposal that he hopes will get RVs off residential streets and connect people to housing. Some people have reservations about whether this plan will actually benefit people who live in these vehicles.
https://www.kuow.org/topics/soundside/2026-10-13/seattle-considers-new-rv-parking-rules-critics-say-it-wont-help-the-people-living-in-them
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Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson joined “Soundside” hosts Libby Denkmann and David Kroman to discuss her budget, public safety investments, homelessness policy, and answer listener questions. The mayor’s $9.1 billion budget proposal is now in front of council, who will amend the budget before sending it back to the mayor’s office.
https://www.kuow.org/governing/2026-10-06/why-mayor-wilson-didnt-raise-the-jumpstart-tax-to-fill-seattles-budget-gap
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Seattle’s interim police chief Andre Sayles says he wants to staff up "proactive" gun violence investigations and enforcement. But Sayles says he has to balance those efforts with keeping patrol officers on the streets. The president of the Seattle Police Officers Guild is applauding the move and says the union will be a "willing participant" in these efforts.
https://www.kuow.org/governing/2026-09-29/seattle-police-leadership-promises-proactive-efforts-on-gun-violence
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Seattle's City Council will vote on a policy that would prohibit companies from changing prices on products based on shoppers' personal information. The sponsors say it will improve affordability, but a grocery industry leader argues it will do the opposite.
https://www.kuow.org/topics/soundside/2026-09-17/seattle-leaders-say-fair-pricing-policy-will-keep-groceries-affordable-not-everyone-buys-it
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The legislation extends LGBTQ+ civil rights protections to pansexual, asexual, and polyamorous people.
https://www.kuow.org/governing/2026-09-15/seattle-makes-polyamorous-pan-and-asexual-people-a-protected-class
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If you own a home in Seattle, and you’re tired of getting calls from people offering to buy your home, you can soon put a stop to that. Starting June 1, 2027, homeowners can add themselves to a “do not solicit” list.
https://www.kuow.org/governing/2026-09-10/dont-want-to-sell-your-seattle-home-heres-how-to-stop-the-unwanted-offers
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Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson took caller questions on KUOW's "Soundside," and spoke to how the city should respond to recent high-profile incidents of gun violence.
https://www.kuow.org/governing/2026-09-10/not-a-time-for-grandstanding-seattle-mayor-wilson-on-new-gun-violence-prevention-strategy
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Seattle city leaders have launched a two-prong effort to meet a goal of eliminating traffic fatalities and serious injuries on city roadways by 2030, as those deaths and injuries continue to rise.
https://www.kuow.org/governing/2026-08-28/seattle-leaders-launch-new-vision-zero-push-as-traffic-deaths-continue-to-rise
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The debate on how to combat open-air drug markets is a perennial topic in Seattle. The Stay Out of Drug Area (SODA) law was supposed to take on the issue. Two years later, it's barely being used.
https://www.kuow.org/law/2026-08-19/seattles-soda-law-once-hotly-debated-is-now-barely-being-used-city-leaders-weigh-in-on-what-that-means
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Extra wide RVs parked on city streets are a common sight in Seattle’s residential neighborhoods today. That could end in July 2027 as part of a suite of rule changes being considered by the city council. It’s part of an effort to move people out of RVs and into shelter or housing.
https://www.kuow.org/governing/2026-08-12/extra-wide-rvs-could-be-outlawed-on-seattles-residential-streets-next-summer
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Under the new legislation, Seattle landlords must disclose fees in advertising rent prices, and can’t charge fees for things like mail and package delivery. The new regulations don't go into effect until July 1, 2027.
https://www.kuow.org/governing/2026-08-11/seattle-bans-landlords-from-charging-junk-fees-like-pet-rent
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Mayor Katie Wilson has asked Seattle’s inspector general to review lapses in public information surrounding the July 26 mass shooting at Seattle Center. That review is due by December.
https://www.kuow.org/governing/2026-08-11/seattle-mayor-orders-probe-into-flow-of-information-following-seattle-center-shooting
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Grocery store chains came under the microscope at the Seattle City Council on Friday, when it took up Mayor Katie Wilson's proposal to ban their practice of showing different prices to different shoppers based on personal information.
https://www.kuow.org/economy/2026-08-07/seattle-could-ban-grocery-stores-from-using-personal-information-to-set-prices
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Local advocates say the Sand Point Country Club illegally removed over 200 trees from its property, raising questions about how committed the city of Seattle is to enforcing its tree removal laws.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/a-private-seattle-golf-course-allegedly-axed-over-200-trees-are-the-city-s-removal-laws-being-enforced
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Seattle City Council District 5 Election Forum!
When: June 23, 7 PM
Where: The Akin Building, 12360 Lake City Way NE, Seattle, WA 98125
Who: Dimitri Georgakopoulos, Silas James, Nilu Jenks and Julie Kang
Learn more at https://tinyurl.com/yxrk8ed5
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Next month the Seattle City Council could take up legislation to make street closures an official tool to prevent gun violence. This comes after residents near Aurora Avenue North created barriers to block vehicle access to their streets last week, in an attempt to keep drive-by shootings from flowing into their neighborhoods.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/seattle-city-council-proposal-would-use-street-closures-to-curb-gun-violence
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Terrified Seattle neighborhood builds massive barricade across streets amid horrific crime wave
Residents in a troubled Seattle neighborhood have begun erecting large homemade barricades across residential streets after a surge…
#NewsBeep #News #Topstories #AuroraAve #AuroraAvenue #barricades #Gunviolence #Headlines #Neighborhood #residentialblocks #residentialstreets #Seattle #SeattleCityCouncil #Seattlepolice #TopStories #vehicletraffic
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https://www.europesays.com/news/32868/ Terrified Seattle neighborhood builds massive barricade across streets amid horrific crime wave #AuroraAve #AuroraAvenue #barricades #GunViolence #Headlines #neighborhood #News #ResidentialBlocks #ResidentialStreets #SEATTLE #SeattleCityCouncil #SeattlePolice #TopStories #VehicleTraffic
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Nilu Jenks Says She’s the Progressive in the District 5 City Council Race
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Should Seattle allow tiny house villages to grow much bigger, to help more unhoused people?
On Wednesday, a key city council committee said “yes.”
https://www.kuow.org/stories/seattle-plan-to-enlarge-tiny-house-villages-passes-key-hurdle
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The King County Regional Homelessness Authority has had a rocky tenure, and now there are questions about its future in the wake of a new audit released Wednesday.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/citing-audit-as-last-straw-officials-seek-to-dissolve-king-county-regional-homelessness-authority
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Seattle’s goal is zero traffic deaths and serious injuries by 2030. Right now, the numbers are far from zero — and going nowhere but up.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/seattle-s-traffic-deaths-are-climbing-one-city-council-member-wants-an-audit-to-find-out-why
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The Seattle City Council last week approved Mayor Bruce Harrell’s $9 billion dollar budget for 2026. That means when Seattle Mayor-elect Katie Wilson takes office in January, she and the new City Council will inherit those funding choices. Here’s what to know in the meantime — explained in pizza terms.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/outgoing-seattle-mayor-bruce-harrell-s-parting-shot-at-katie-wilson-a-budget-of-his-priorities
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Emails recently obtained by KUOW show that during his time as the Seattle City Council president, Mayor Bruce Harrell directed his staff to perform administrative tasks for the Royal Esquire Club — whose board he chaired at the time — potentially violating city ethics rules.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/ethics-concerns-surface-from-bruce-harrell-s-time-as-seattle-city-council-president
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The hours are ticking down for voters to get their ballots in for the November election. Last year at this time, there was a lot going on nationally and not so much locally. That script flipped this year. To talk about what's happening in Seattle races and measures, KUOW’s Kim Malcolm reached out to Seattle Times staff reporter David Kroman.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/will-seattle-election-solidify-its-centrist-shift-or-move-the-city-left-again
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The Seattle City Council has approved a proposal from Mayor Bruce Harrell to increase Seattle’s sales tax to fund public safety programs in the city.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/seattle-city-council-members-express-concern-but-still-vote-to-increase-sales-tax
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Early last year, the city signed a $2.7 million lease extension to continue using a hotel’s rooms as shelter space. Yet despite committing to pay the rent, the city stopped sending people there.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/seattle-homeless-shelter-vacancies-civic-hotel
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It's not like this CCTV expansion could be used for anything bad if it got into the (more) wrong hands, right... right? seattlecitycouncil.iswatching.xyz #Seattle #StopSurveillanceCity #SeattleCityCouncil
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The Seattle City Council voted 7-2 Tuesday to expand its use of video cameras by police, despite concerns that the footage could be used by the Trump administration against immigrants, protesters, and vulnerable communities.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/seattle-expands-video-surveillance-despite-public-concerns-about-potential-abuse
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Thank goodness for Councilmeber Alexis Mercedes Rinck, I'm glad we've got one sane and smart person on council to speak out against this abhorrent expansion of surveillance.
(yeah, the rest of them are all that bad)
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#Seattle City Council was unable to appoint key members to #housing committees yesterday, because two councilmembers just didn't show up. If councilmembers not showing up to work bothers you, send a letter. https://actionnetwork.org/letters/vote-on-all-housing-committee-appointments-asap?source=direct_link&
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Seattle Police Chief Shon Barnes told City Council members Tuesday that he plans to stand up for the First Amendment rights of Seattle residents and expects to be jailed at some point for making that stand.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/seattle-police-chief-barnes-says-he-expects-to-be-jailed-for-resisting-trump-s-orders
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Today (Thursday 5/8) at the end of the 2pm meeting of the Governance etc. committee, they will be discussing Cathy Moore's Financial Ethics Unwinding Bill again (CB 120978) #ethics #cityofseattle #seattlecitycouncil #cathymoore #saranelson #financialethics seattle.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=...
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Want to let the Seattle City Council know that you don't want them to weaken the code of ethics they're held to?
Send them an email here before their meeting today: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/keep-seattles-ethics-code-strong?subscription_group=false&source=mastodon
#Seattle #SeattleCityCouncil #SeattleElex #SeattlePol #Ethics #Activisim
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MUST READ FOR SEATTLE FOLKS BY @wilsonkatieb.bsky.social #seattle #cityofseattle #ethics #seattlecitycouncil #cathymoore #saranelson #waynebarnett 👇👇👇
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Seattle City Council is considering rolling back ethics protections- removing the requirement for officials to recuse themselves from votes benefiting them personally.
Disclosure alone isn't enough! Email your councilmembers (including the two Citywide CMs): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PGs-PHIelFd9-EJ8v45Yujhd6kEiloBXVE-o0ocNznA/edit?usp=sharing
#Seattle #SeattleCityCouncil #SeattleElex #SeattlePol #Ethics
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#Seattle residents: please sign Seattle YIMBY's petition to tell #SeattleCityCouncil to keep neighborhood centers, allowing more #housing (including #affordableHousing and #socialHousing) in neighborhoods like #Ballard, #Fremont, and #PhinneyRidge.
https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/save-our-nw-seattle-neighborhood-centers?source=direct_link&
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The election dust has settled in Washington state and for the first time in over a decade residents have overwhelmingly voted in favor of taxing the wealthy.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/off-the-charts-washingtonians-across-the-state-agree-tax-the-wealthy
#KUOW #News #Politics #Elections #Economy #Politics #TrumpAndTheNorthwest #Taxes #WashingtonStateBudget #Economy #Seattle #SeattleCityCouncil #Elections -
Tammy Morales wants Seattleites to know that her decision to leave the Seattle City Council has nothing to do with policy differences. She says her early departure in January is more about gaslighting, toxicity, and a lack of democratic process.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/gaslighting-and-manipulation-why-tammy-morales-is-leaving-seattle-city-council
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Seattle City Councilmember Tammy Morales has announced that she’ll step down in January, ending her term three years shy of completion. Morales is one of two remaining incumbents of the 2020 council, one marked by a push for progressive police reform.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/seattle-city-councilmember-tammy-morales-steps-down
#KUOW #News #SeattleCityCouncil #Politics