> Oh yeah, and we hamstring ourselves because every extra property can only be used for "affordable" housing and we paid top dollar for it, then limit how much it can be used and tie up prime property which could have been used for more purposes. Gee, why is everything so expensive!?

Yeah everything surrounding what sound transit was forced to do with their finances sucks, which is why I have a lot of sympathy for the people trying to run ST and maintain its budget.

Everyone complains ST is bleeding money but the voters passed the laws forcing the finances to be terrible.

But every time I post that Seattle needs to dramatic loosen up building restrictions, it pisses everyone off.

Everytime I say things like "we should just do what cities running a good budget and that have affordable housing are doing" people get upset.

The curse of being an engineer. "Do the thing that makes the numbers work out" is rarely a popular opinion.