November 3

It’s Election Day – Vote!

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You’ve had that ballot for weeks.

It has to be postmarked by today to be counted in this year’s general election.

As we wrote in October:

Seattle’s first-in-a-century election of city council members by district is the focus of our upcoming November general election.

But the ballot also features the largest levy in Seattle history, more than doubling the size of the transportation levy it replaces.

Today Crosscut has a piece looking at six things to watch in Seattle and statewide.

For an off-year election, there’s a lot riding on what voters decide today in Seattle, King County, and Washington state. An historically large tax levy is on the ballot in Seattle, as is new money for children’s programs in King County and a new attempt to require a two-thirds majority for state tax increases, which could have enormous implications for the state’s finances.

If ballot returns are any indication so far, these decisions will be made by less than half of registered voters.

Specifically on the transportation levy:

If Mayor Ed Murray’s $930 million transportation levy package passes, it will be spun as a continuation of the norm for Seattleites, proof that we’ll say yes to any new property tax. But if it fails, the implications are pretty enormous.

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  1. I’m mourning that Prop. 1 (misnamed “Move Seattle”) passed. We’re going to spend over $900 million and there are no guarantees about what – if anything – we will get in return.

  2. For those of you living in District 4 (the NE corner of Maple Leaf), if you care about the future of your neighborhood, YOU NEED TO VOTE TODAY. Why do I say this in such stark terms? Because while both District 4 candidates support more density, Rob Johnson has made it very clear he wants to tax you out of your single family homes to accomplish his goal. Remember, he stated this a month ago in his debate with Michael Maddux: “So, if you’re in a neighborhood that is assessed to be able to go to 3 stories, (Like Maple Leaf) and you’re in a single family home, we’re gonna charge you as though you’re a two-story BUILDING. That’s gonna encourage more turnover in places where we want to see higher density.”

    While Michael Maddux supports more density, he agrees that’s totally unfair to existing homeowners, and he favors charging impact fees to developers. In other words, make developers pay for necessary infrastructure improvements, rather than force those of us who already live here to subsidize the destruction of our hood.

    So there you have it. Johnson wants to kick you out of your home by dramatically raising taxes on you. Do we want to continue to be a neighborhood of nice Craftsman homes where we know all our neighbors? Or do you want Apodments and other microhousing and expensive condos popping up on either side of you as your neighbors start giving in and selling off their homes?

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