57.50% - Single-family-only zoning is the primary legal instrument of the housing shortage — you can't solve scarcity while keeping most land off-limits to additional households.
22.50% - Parks, greenways, and open plazas aren't luxuries — density works better when people have space to decompress, and open space belongs in the urban plan, not squeezed out by development pressure.
20.00% - Seventy percent of Seattle's residential land is zoned exclusively for single-family homes — you cannot build out of a housing crisis when most of the city is legally off-limits to anything denser.
Most of Seattle's single-family zoning should be upzoned to allow gentle density.
27.06% - The denser a city, the more efficiently it functions — more people sharing infrastructure and public space is how cities create value; sprawl undermines that logic.
23.08% - A neighborhood zoned universally for triplexes barely changes the streetscape but allows three households where only one was legally permitted before — meaningful progress with minimal disruption.
18.97% - Parks, greenways, and open plazas aren't luxuries — density works better when people have space to decompress, and open space belongs in the urban plan, not squeezed out by development pressure.
15.52% - Single-family-only zoning is the primary legal instrument of the housing shortage — you can't solve scarcity while keeping most land off-limits to additional households.
15.38% - Upzoning just requires changing the zoning map — every city claiming it can't solve its housing crisis while maintaining exclusionary zoning is deceiving itself.
50.00% - Most of Seattle's single-family zoning should be upzoned to allow gentle density.
50.00% - Most of Seattle should be upzoned to allow duplexes, ADUs, and small apartment buildings.
0.00% - Single family zoning in Seattle should be significantly up zoned.