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Hey, good morning. I'm Paige Browning. It's Tuesday. This is Seattle now.

The city of Baffle has been making big moves recently. Its city council has passed legislation that eliminates parking minimums, change zoning to encourage more housing, and is now allowing corner stores in residential neighborhoods.

We'll talk to Bothel Mayor Mason Thompson about the support and criticisms these changes are facing.

But first, let's get you caught up.

We're living through the biggest swarm of earthquakes at Mount Rainier ever. More than 1,200 tremors

have been recorded at Rainier this month. They started July 8th and they're still going this week.

Seismologists say there's no cause for concern as most of the quakes can't be felt because they're

low magnitude. The biggest was a 2.2. The Pacific Northwest Seismic Network says the cause isn't known for sure,

but one hypothesis is the hot water at the core of the mountain

change temperatures, stressing the surrounding rock enough to break.

A bunch of new laws took effect over the weekend in Washington.

One will change parking as we know it.

For years, cities have been able to require builders to add lots of parking when they put up a new apartment building or houses.

Under a new law, cities can require one parking spot for every two units, but no more.

Some cities have taken it further. More about that in our interview coming up.

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