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Councilmember Eddie Lin

CB 121215, my legislation related to SEPA appeals, will expedite Seattle's ability to address our most pressing issues, from mitigating climate change to building more homes. Read the full FAQ below: council.seattle.gov/2026/07/24/f...

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Councilmember Eddie Lin

If we work together and plan strategically, we can have abundant & affordable housing, w a robust urban tree canopy, clean air and water. But this is a confusing topic, and there is some misinformation about our bill, so we’re trying to get info out, like this FAQ council.seattle.gov/2026/07/24/f...

Ответ для Councilmember Eddie Lin
Councilmember Eddie Lin

In addition to this FAQ, folks should be aware that the current “Orca Appeal” was just heard by the Growth Management Hearings Board last week. The appeal is seeking to require additional environmental review and to invalidate the Comp Plan and middle housing zoning we adopted in December 2025.

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Councilmember Eddie Lin

The arguments being made to the GMHB are essentially the same ones that appellants want to make to the Hearing Examiner. It’s confusing and duplicative to have the same appeal being heard twice. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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Councilmember Eddie Lin

Also, not sure about the name “orca appeal”. That’s the commonly used term, the real impact of the appeal is to delay the necessary zoning updates to allow more housing. It’s effectively a housing appeal, regardless of whether that’s the intent.

Ответ для Councilmember Eddie Lin
Councilmember Eddie Lin

And when we talk about housing, I think we need to get away from the framing that it’s ordinary citizens fighting against evil greedy developers. Because often what we are really talking about is current residents fighting against denser housing for new/additional neighbors.

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Councilmember Eddie Lin

And I think that framing is super important. We are talking about housing for everyday people: working families, young people and seniors on fixed-incomes, trans people fleeing oppression, climate and other refugees, and displaced communities who want to return.

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Councilmember Eddie Lin

Our City and region are going to continue to grow in population. We can’t stop that even if we wanted to (and that’s not what I want). So where are people going to live? Are they going to live in the City or are we going to cut down more forests and farmland to build suburban housing?

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Councilmember Eddie Lin

Are they going to live in the streets and our parks or are we going to make it possible to build enough housing for everyone? Gregg Colburn does a great job of describing housing like a game of musical chairs. When there aren’t enough chairs, the most vulnerable gets left behind.

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Councilmember Eddie Lin

Blaming evil greedy developers is an easy and convenient rhetorical trick, because it’s not very popular to say you’re against providing housing to renters, working families, low-income seniors, young adults, or refugees.

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Councilmember Eddie Lin

And I’d like to note that I do care deeply about anti-displacement. As I think about displacement, I think about the original inhabitants of our region who were violently displaced. And the mobs who attacked Chinatown in the 1890s and drove out an entire community.

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Emily Johnston

Also, uhhhh, developers build housing, and they won't do so if they can't be relatively confident of at least some profit. I'd happily pay more in property tax to fund more social housing! But until we can fund ALL housing, we need to let developers do their thing.

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Jay

They needed something more palatable than "Friends fo Redlining."