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As the military prepares to close Fort Lawton, an Army Reserve base nestled in Seattle's Magnolia neighborhood, a city proposal to develop a 200-home subdivision that includes housing for the homeless angers some residents. ___ A newly released city plan to redevelop the soon-to-be-closed Fort Lawton in Seattle calls for building a 200-home subdivision of market-rate and affordable housing on about 18 acres. At a final community meeting Saturday at Fort Lawton, those living near the Army Reserve base said they didn't oppose housing for the homeless, but they worried that the total number of homes proposed and the percentage...

While white shirt-wearing activists have been taking to the street around the country calling for immigrant rights, in Aspen, a different brigade of White Shirts has hit town. These folks are wearing “We (Heart) Aspen” T-shirts, like those old “I (Heart) NY” shirts, and calling for slow growth in town and protection of some of the town’s historic, or kind of historic, buildings that could meet the wrecking ball. On Tuesday, they won a bit of a victory when City Council declared a six-month moratorium on new development applications. That came on top of a recent action by Pitkin County...

Vol. 7, No. 29 July 25, 2002NIMBYism and the Garbage Barge from Hell by Steven Hayward Washington DC – Think back to 1986. Ronald Reagan was in the White House, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was at 1,750, and Duran-Duran was at the top of the pop charts. This was also the year that the Khian Sea, an ocean-going barge containing seven tons of ash from incinerated household garbage, set sail from Philadelphia to dispose of its load in an overseas landfill. Sixteen years later, the Khian Sea has at last returned to Philadelphia—with its original load of ash.In the...