Living Small Part 2: Washington
This is Part 2 of a series based on my lecture last week at the Tulane School of Architecture. You can catch up with Part 1 here. Our journey begins in Seattle, Washington, where the first person I interviewed was Mike Podowski. Mike is the Land Use Policy Manager for the City of Seattle, a job he described to me as covering everything from helicopter safety to the number of goats that people can own. I wanted to talk to Mike about the Backyard Cottage program, which was launched as a pilot program in 2006 and expanded citywide in 2009. The City of Seattle had in fact …