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Not many details here, but it sounds significant. The Seattle PI reports that police have shot a person of interest in the Halloween killing of Office Timothy Brenton.

"Officers shot a man in Tukwila after being fired upon Friday afternoon while they served a search warrant, police said.

Seattle Police responded to Tukwila after receiving a tip that the man was connected to the fatal shooting Halloween Night of Seattle Police Officer Timothy Brenton, according to a police source familiar with the investigation. SWAT members were among those responding.

The warrant was being served in the 14300 block of 56th Avenue South, but it was not immediately clear what the warrant was for. Seattle police are taking over the scene investigation.

Some police belived the man shot had died at the scene, but that was not immediately confirmed.

The shooting occurred minutes after the memorial for Seattle Police Officer Timothy Brenton ended at KeyArena."

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On September 1, Roger Valdez at the Sightline Institute wrote a post on the VIA Architecture blog on Seattle's "Planning Zen." Valdez argues that the best city plan is not having one at all:

The best urban plan is no plan at all. The statement is kind of like a Zen koan, those pithy, dissonant little statements, stories or questions like “what is the sound of one hand clapping?” The koan is intended to jolt our cognitive mind into a more enlightened state.

Here’s another koan from the zen master himself, Yogi Berra, an improvement on my poor attempt: “If the world was perfect it wouldn’t be.” Planning should create perfection. On the other hand (the one not clapping), perhaps trying to achieve perfection in our cities is likely going to lead us to imperfection. Think Cheesecake Factory or Buca di Beppo, places that seem to be one of a kind but are truly perfect duplicates of a model, stamped out in city after city.

So what does a city without a plan look like? Take a look at my favorite Seattle microcosm, 14th Ave East on Capitol Hill from the edge of Volunteer Park to Mercer Street.

Rest of the article here.