Rodney Rutherford
Rodney volunteers as a planning commissioner in Kirkland, WA (USA). Prior to that, he served on his neighborhood association board for eight years, represented neighborhoods on Kirkland’s Housing Strategy Plan Advisory Group in 2017, and influenced the update of neighborhood plans in 2018. Co-founded LiveableKirkland.org to collaboratively envision places for everyone in our community, and created StrongWA.org to bring together Strong Towns advocates across the state.
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Rodney Rutherford commented,
I'd be hesitant to be to that prescriptive. In particular, I'm a bit concerned about the prescribed single-use buildings. As Jane Jacobs noted, achieving a fine-grained diversity of uses is critica...
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Rodney Rutherford commented,
Here's how I'd approach this question: Which option will enable more people to live without needing to drive a car as part of their daily needs? Which will enable a broader spectrum of the populati...
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Rodney Rutherford commented,
It just so happens that I spoke on this topic last year in a presentation to AIA's Seattle chapter entitled, "Re-discovering the Small Town Roots of the 15-minute city" (together with Cary Westerbe...
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Rodney Rutherford commented,
Welcome, Roger! I'd like to invite you to also join StrongWA.org, which is a coalition of Strong Towns advocates from across our state, supporting each other and identifying how the state can help ...
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Rodney Rutherford commented,
Building on Chuck's point, it's often best to focus new development into areas that have already been developed, rather than forge into developing on natural/green fields. It's usually more sustain...
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Rodney Rutherford commented,
Ah yes, that helps a bit. When you say 'walkable', are there useful places for people in this area to walk to? Or would those also need to be nurtured? Affordable housing could be well justified if...
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Rodney Rutherford commented,
I would start with the classic Strong Towns question: Where do people in your community struggle? (reference) It's tough to tell what else is in this area...or where people might struggle. Are ther...
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Rodney Rutherford commented,
I'd lean toward partial exemptions on property taxes for locally-owned property. Of course, this could become really fuzzy: how would we differentiate between an individual local owner that holds t...
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Deputy Director of Planning and Building
City of Kirkland (WA, USA) is seeking a Deputy Director of Planning and Building. Kirkland is a growing first-ring suburb, just across Lake Washington from Seattle...but most importantly, you'll ge...
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Rodney Rutherford commented,
This example text is used in the SmartCode template, at item 1.6.1: "Twenty years after the approval of a Regulating Plan, each Transect Zone, except the T1 Natural and T2 Rural Zones, shall be aut...