I hope it isn't terrible.

Hope in one hand.

Seattle knocks this down every time because it's pushed entirely 100% by "microdevelopers" that want to knock over single-family dwellings and put in "live-work lofts" with shared bathrooms and no parking that end up being occupied three to a room. It's an effort to slumhouse every neighborhood so that instead of five college students per thousand square feet within walking distance of the University they can do five GenZ wage drones per thousand square feet. Same communal kitchen, same communal bathroom, same lack of parking that makes getting home a virtual impossibility if you leave and don't come back two hours before rush hour. This is all of the 213 and half of the 323 and Los Angeles still requires a parking spot per dwelling.

Portland has some of the best zoning laws in the United States. They award tax incentives for structured building and access to transit. Those tax incentives are one of the reason Portland has such great public transit. What you'll have now is a place that used to be a family of four and then became six roommates is now going to become a sixplex with four people per apartment and every single one of them has a car because they all work in Gresham or Vancouver. They'll all be rentals because nobody bothers to do this shit to sell, you do it to squeeze blood from the stone of the proletariat.

I did a lot of design work for low-income housing in downtown Seattle. They knocked over a single-floor commercial building and put in nine floors of Section 8. They got lots of tax incentives and rebates to do this. Fifteen years later that commercial building is walking distance to The Spheres. Not sure if they've sold it for nine figures yet or not.

The YIMBYs always think "I want to live in this hip neighborhood but my parents don't pay me enough money to do it so I will attend zoning board meetings and stick it to the man." The man goes "why yes yes I would like you to self-righteously make it orders of magnitude easier to overcharge you for a postage-stamp-sized apartment."

Hey steve - what happened with your project? The hole in the ground we didn't buy in 2015 is a hole in the ground that was bought by the local Eagles lodge in 2018 until they discovered they couldn't build shit on it so now they're trying to sell again.