Guest Editorial: Seattle Businesses, Please Help Us Fix Our Land Use Problems

Seattle doesn't have to turn into San Francisco.by Andres Salomon Courtesy of the author
To Amazon and other Seattle-area employers: instead of fighting things like head taxes, work with us to help fix Seattle’s broken land-use policies. On Monday, the Seattle City Council successfully passed an employee head tax. Not only does the tax fall far short of the desired goal of building thousands of units of low-income housing, the tax also fails to address the real reason that we’re in t