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Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels either loves condos or he hates renters. The Mayor's Office has indefinitely frozen a $350,000 fund created to compensate Seattle area renters who'd been forced out of housing due to condo-conversions. Mayor Nickels wants to wait and see if the legislature passes a statewide bail-out funded by developers this winter. Because it makes perfect sense to rely on the people who are profiting most off of Seattle renter's misery.

The City Council finally got around to passing "adult cabaret" zoning laws that just might let Seattle develop a strip club scene worthy of a would-be world-class city.

Strip club owners got their wish: The referendum to overturn Nanny Nickels' anti-ecdysiast laws will be on the ballot in November, not September. At least, so says the PI:

The City Council settled the question Monday of when the proposal should go to voters -- not whether it should. That was decided for politicians some time ago when the strip-club industry collected sufficient petition signatures to challenge new rules banning lap dances and dim lighting in clubs.

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Something needs to be said about Erica Barnett's article in La Strangeur concerning the possibility that the City Council will make the final decision on the Viaduct without the requisite and meaningless public referendum, and that something is: "Hell Yeah!" Do we have to vote on every damn decision that's made around here? The City Council exists to make decisions on transportation infrastructure. That's what they do. Seattlest's job is to spend a little time every week trying to make them see how any decision besides the one we've made our personal lord and savior is blasphemous, and then to ridicule them when they end up worshiping at the altar of a viaduct rebuild. That's what we do. We're Americans, damn it! We rank voting just above walking on the scale of shit we hate to do!

-The City Council got a look at some proposals for the new 520 this week and we're hoping to get to see them ourselves soon. Earlier this week the Montlake neighborhood's Alaska-esque plan to launch traffic into space was shot down by the state.

Bombs Away: We've always been pretty impressed with the huge starling clouds that appear from time to time downtown, but apparently they piss some people off. Haters.

Property owners along the path of the proposed streetcar line in South Lake Union have always been expected to partially fund the line, and Seattlest always assumed that that meant that Paul Allen was paying for some portion of it and the city would be coughing up the rest. We also assume that property owners along the line not named Paul Allen also thought that. Surprise! South Lake Union commercial residents expected to pony up are getting some estimates and they are not quite in line with what they expected.

The Seattle Monorail, which has already endured more obloquy than Lindsay Lohan's dietician, is in trouble again.