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This proposed mixed-use project in West Seattle is at the heart of an attempt by Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn to inject social-justice issues into a land-use decision. It's unclear whether that's legal.
Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn?s desire to hold up a large West Seattle real estate development because he doesn?t think Whole Foods pays employees enough raises the question: Is this legal?
No, according to longtime Seattle land-use attorney Elaine Spencer, who thinks McGinn?s move is unprecedented. She doesn?t see anything in the city?s policies that would let the mayor attempt this.
But the mayor says what he is doing is legal and that Seattle should expect more of the same if he wins a second term this fall.
Metaphorically speaking, McGinn threw a firecracker into the middle of the mayoral race when in a July 15 letter he recommended that the city not surrender an alley needed by the developers of the $100 million-plus apartment and retail project.
McGinn?s move just three weeks before the Aug. 6 primary is the latest example of local unions flexing their political muscles.
City of SeaTac voters on Nov. 5 will vote on a union-backed plan to raise the city?s minimum wage for some workers in and around Seattle-Tacoma International Airport to $15 an hour. With support from Working Washington, another group with ties to labor, fast-food employees have filed complaints with the Seattle Police Department alleging some restaurants did not pay them or made them work off the clock.
In a somewhat new twist, unions are pressing Seattle City Hall to use land-use regulations to block some big commercial real estate projects.
A union of hospitality workers is agitating against R.C. Hedreen Co.?s proposed $450 million downtown hotel project because the union thinks the hotel will bring too many low-paying jobs to Seattle.
Marc Stiles covers commercial real estate and government for the Puget Sound Business Journal.
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