Thursday in land use

* The Seattle Weekly’s take on Laurelhurst’s Waterway 1 battle. Touch my property and the shrubbery gets it.

* Mayor Nickels proposes requiring building owners to seismically retrofit their buildings (here’s a map). Glad I sold that brick yurt I used to live in on the tideflats.

*The Stranger features Seattle Center skatepark designs and notes that ‘The designs still don’t include a bowl’. FYI, a ‘bowl’ is where skaters can do ‘loopdee-doos’ - go ahead, ask a skater what that is. This skatepark seems to have some momentum behind actually being completed while a similar skatepark fell apart in West Seattle.