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1.2 Million New People In Seattle? (Seattle PostGlobe)

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Philip Dawdy, "1.2 Million New People In Seattle?" Seattle PostGlobe (July 14, 2009)

Last night's mayoral candidate forum sponsored by the Friends of Seattle was mostly a snorefest with candidates fielding questions from Publicola.net's Erica Barnett on an array of urban planning issues--housing, densification, transit and the like.

One thing that did awaken my senses in the packed room at the Spitfire in Belltown was a line trotted out by audience members, some of the candidates and Barnett herself that "1.2 million people are coming to Seattle" over the next 20 years or so, necessitating a denser, taller, greener city with less single family housing, according to the room's collective wonky vibe.

Read the whole thing.

Although Philip Dawdy thinks otherwise, we found the event interesting. Watch the video here.