Chris Karnes | Tacoma, WA

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Chris Karnes

Chris Karnes

Chris Karnes serves on the Tacoma Planning Commission. Driven by a desire to know how the world works and committed to making the future better. Physics, mathematics, and R-Stats.

Happy Year of the Snake

Happy Year of the Snake

The RedNote phenomenon reflects what the original intent of the Internet was supposed to be in the 1990's: a global communications network without barriers, a platform to help us understand that we, as humans, really have much more in common with one another than we think.

Time to reform Tacoma's Crossroads Centers

Time to reform Tacoma's Crossroads Centers

Despite efforts to promote more pedestrian-friendly design and mixed-use development compatible with cities, the dominance of car-centric infrastructure ultimately undermines community goals.

Home in Tacoma final passage

Home in Tacoma final passage

Sometimes you have to just take a second and be in awe of all of the work that was put into address one key community need: housing.

towards transit-oriented development

towards transit-oriented development

A primary focus of Home in Tacoma has been to identify just how to absorb new growth into areas outside of the regional growth centers and mixed use centers. The largest change by land area is the conversion of single family zoning to an inclusive zoning framework that enables more

Mapping Transit (In)Equity in the Puget Sound

Mapping Transit (In)Equity in the Puget Sound

...the quality of transit service is dependent upon on sales tax revenue, which is reflective of an area's economy, tax rates, and past decisions of lawmakers who have chosen one form of urban development over another, [making] transit service prone to geographic disparity.

Addressing transit inequity in Tacoma

Addressing transit inequity in Tacoma

The most frequent bus route in Tacoma on weekdays, Route 1 - 6th Ave - Pacific Ave, will operate once every half hour on weekdays, due to a lack of bus operators. Here I present a concept plan to address the issue.

Climate and Planning

Climate and Planning

The debate on the existence of human-driven climate change is over. For the last two centuries humans have been burning solid, liquid, and gaseous fossil fuels in increasing amounts, which has been gradually changing the composition of the atmosphere and our oceans.