If you haven’t thought that far ahead, you’re not alone. But several housing leaders are already dreaming up ways to get Seattle where they think it needs to go, from a bunch of different perspectives…

• Boting Zhang, urban planner for the city and founder of The Bramble Project, which hopes to reshape our conversations about urban development
• Shaun Scott, Seattle historian, writer, and city council candidate for District 4 in Northeast Seattle
• Charles Fadem, interior design associate and host of the Design Goggles podcast
• Sarajane Siegfriedt, retired Lake City resident and member of the Seattle Coalition for Affordability, Livability and Equity neighborhood group
• Vincent Martinez, chief operations officer at Architecture 2030, a building sustainability group

The one thing everyone agreed on: By 2030, Seattle is gonna need more housing. How to get there is a different question. Here’s a taste of what some of ‘em had to say about their ideal future city…

On the biggest changes they’d like to see…

• Stronger community relationships. Boting, speaking on her own behalf and not on the city’s, says her perfect Seattle is more about the ways we act and treat each other. “[I hope] that we would become a people-oriented society, not a thing-oriented society,” she says. “We’d stop pretending that we’re actually freaking out about housing, but about belonging.”

• More density. “Everywhere in Seattle would look how Eastlake looks: It would be denser, there’d be even more street activity, and there’d be more small business storefronts,” says Shaun. “It’d be a place where there are a multitude of multi-family housing stacked next to each other. Wouldn’t need to drive long distance to get to work or school because there’d be housing closer to [both].”

On zoning…

• “I object to the mindless, one-size-fits-all approach to upzoning,” says Sarajane, speaking on behalf of herself and not her organization. She’d prefer to see zoning change on a neighborhood by neighborhood basis. (Learn more on the city’s plan to “upzone” parts of 27 neighborhoods here.) The city shouldn’t be ignoring the way many Seattleites want to be living, she says.

• “Single-family housing is beautiful, but it’s not practical anymore,” Charles says. “I think we have to shed that Seattle’s identity is our single-family housing. It says more about our identity to welcome density because it’s a greener way to build and more egalitarian.”

» Want to know where our housing wonks and experts land on future public transit, greener buildings, and a project called “Lid I-5”? Check our full post on their hopes for future Seattle here.

‘Everybody needs to play their role.’ Big news out of the Eastside: Microsoft recently pledged $500 million in loans and grants to build low- and middle-income housing in cities near its Redmond HQ — and most of it’s expected to go to Seattle. Although our housing market’s cooled off recently, lots of Seattleites are having a tough time affording to stay in our city — and a good number of folks say that’s because of our tech boom. One King County report found that we’d need to build 88,000 more housing units by 2040 to keep things in balance. And half a billion bucks is not nothing. KUOW reporter Joshua McNichols’ reaction to Microsoft’s pledge? “This is a tech company distinguishing itself by addressing the downside of tech growth: inequality,” he tweeted. 🏙 (The New York Times, KUOW)

Coming in 2025 (hopefully). Want to take a trolley trip across town? You can — kind of. A break between the lines chops the trip in two, and Mayor Jenny Durkan’s team wants to fix that. Their solution’s called the Center City Connector, a streetcar that would bridge the north and south ends of downtown and connect streetcar lines running between South Lake Union and Chinatown-International District. It’s also expected to triple current daily streetcar ridership and, for the impatient commuters out there, it’d even have its own traffic lane. The one big problem: The thing’s gonna costs us a lot — about $286 million. 💰(Curbed Seattle, The Seattle Times)

Super wolf blood moon. No, it’s not a weird ‘80s band name. It’s what set to happen this Sunday night after 9:30. It’s “super” because the moon will be real close to the earth, making it look up to 30 percent bigger. It’s a “wolf” because it’s the first full moon of the year. And it’s a “blood” moon because a lunar eclipse will make it look reddish and creepy cool. You a night owl? Stay up, because this madness peaks at 12:13 a.m. Monday. 🌝 (Q13 Fox, Space.com)

For the night owls with a sweet tooth. Do your sugar cravings ever strike at that annoying time when you know your favorite spot’s been closed for hours? (Just us?) Time to add some new joints to your dessert bucket list, for the simple reason that they’re open after 11 p.m. 😱 Are you an ice cream fiend? Head to New Luck Toy in West Seattle for soft serve with rice cereal, spicy candied pecans, and honey. Is cake your vice? Stick a spoon into a gooey peanut butter lava cake at Hot Cakes in Capitol Hill or Ballard. Milkshakes your thing? Slurp an espresso one at North Star Diner in Greenwood. Enjoy that sugar rush, y’all. (The Infatuation Seattle)

THAT’S ALL FOR TODAY

Have a great weekend, Seattle. ✌️ — The Evergrey