‘Imagine Seattle’s future, and let the city hear it’

Mark Matassa Jul 4, 2025

Feb 6, 2018

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                <h1>‘Imagine Seattle’s future, and let the city hear it’</h1>
                <h2><p>That’s the headline of a Seattle Times editorial over the weekend, and it raises some interesting ideas. City planners say we should expect 15 percent growth over the next 20 years, which would mean a Seattle of 750,000 people by 2035,with 115,000 new jobs and 70,</p></h2>
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               <p>By <a href="/author/mmatassa-mac-com/">Mark Matassa</a></p> 
              <p><time datetime="2025-02-04T05:00:00-08:00">Feb 6, 2018</time></p>
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            <p>That’s the headline of a <em>Seattle Times</em> editorial over the weekend, and it raises some interesting ideas. City planners say we should expect 15 percent growth over the next 20 years, which would mean <a href="http://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/editorials/imagine-seattles-future-and-let-the-city-hear-it/?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">a Seattle of 750,000 people by 2035,</a>with 115,000 new jobs and 70,000 new housing units. The question is, where to put everybody. The city wants to hear from the public as part of its Seattle 2035 planning document.</p><figure class="kg-card kg-image-card"><img src="https://www.cascadepbs.org/sites/default/files/images/article/gallery/amazon-tom-douglas-south-lake-union2.jpg" class="kg-image" alt="Mixing" loading="lazy" width="300" height="199"></figure>
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That’s the headline of a Seattle Times editorial over the weekend, and it raises some interesting ideas. City planners say we should expect 15 percent growth over the next 20 years, which would mean a Seattle of 750,000 people by 2035,with 115,000 new jobs and 70,000 new housing units. The question is, where to put everybody. The city wants to hear from the public as part of its Seattle 2035 planning document.