Tyler Hall (Lynnwood City Council Position 3, Washington, candidate 2025)

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Tyler Hall

Nonpartisan

Candidate, Lynnwood City Council Position 3

Elections and appointments

Last election

August 5, 2025

Education

Bachelor's

California Polytechnic State University, 2008

Law

University of Washington

Contact

Campaign website

Tyler Hall ran for election to the Lynnwood City Council Position 3 in Washington. He was on the ballot in the primary on August 5, 2025.^[source]

Hall completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2025. Click here to read the survey answers.

Biography

Tyler Hall provided the following biographical information via Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey on July 6, 2025:

• Bachelor's: California Polytechnic State University, 2008
• J.D.: University of Washington
• Gender: Male
• Incumbent officeholder: No
• Campaign slogan: A Path to Progress
• Campaign website

Elections

General election

General election for Lynnwood City Council Position 3

Josh Binda and Bryce Owings ran in the general election for Lynnwood City Council Position 3 on November 4, 2025.

		Candidate
	Submit photo	Josh Binda (Nonpartisan)
		Bryce Owings (Nonpartisan)

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Nonpartisan primary election

Nonpartisan primary for Lynnwood City Council Position 3

Josh Binda, Tyler Hall, and Bryce Owings ran in the primary for Lynnwood City Council Position 3 on August 5, 2025.

		Candidate
	Submit photo	Josh Binda (Nonpartisan)
		Tyler Hall (Nonpartisan)
		Bryce Owings (Nonpartisan)

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Endorsements

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Campaign themes

Ballotpedia survey responses

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Tyler Hall completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2025. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Hall's responses.

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Who are you? Tell us about yourself.

I have worked in a variety of roles including as a barista at a small business, janitorial for a nonprofit, in corporate retail, in tech support, as a software/systems engineer for an automotive manufacturer, and program manager for a local tech giant. In 2021, I left my stable role in big tech to pursue a law degree from UW, as a pivot towards a career in public service. My initial goals with this career shift were to combat corporate greed and climate change through the law, and this focus expanded into a passion for municipal government. I have used my broad experience to draft proposed legislation for an environmental nonprofit, and I volunteered as an editor with the Washington Journal of Social and Environmental Justice. I also performed transactional civil legal work for the City of Seattle, and practiced criminal law for Snohomish County.

Please list below 3 key messages of your campaign. What are the main points you want voters to remember about your goals for your time in office?

• Lynnwood is facing many challenges that are without precedent, including rapid urbanization, housing affordability, fiscal uncertainty, climate change, and unpredictability about the state of our nation. Lynnwood will need bold and effective solutions to address these new and complex challenges. My broad range of professional experience has always helped me to find creative outside-the-box solutions, finding opportunities to apply lessons from one industry to solve tough problems in another. With my breadth of professional experience along with my legal education, I can apply my passion to ensure Lynnwood has the effective legislative solutions to rise to its many challenges.
• To effectively address the big issues facing Lynnwood, the city must remain financially solvent. Financial responsibility must be coupled with a shift toward more equitable revenue streams. Our municipal revenue is primarily tied to sales taxes. These taxes are regressive, having a higher impact on households and businesses with the least resources, and they are greatly affected by economic downturn. I want to shift Lynnwood away from its regressive sales tax, toward progressive revenue streams within Washington law. By implementing solutions like a land value tax, local improvement districts, and a high-threshold B&O tax, Lynnwood can grow its revenue while divesting in inequitable revenue streams.
• Our housing affordability crisis has only been worsened by for-profit housing developers. We cannot wait for these corporations to solve a societal crisis, and this city cannot adequately regulate the problem when developers continue to prioritize their investors over the public. Lynnwood must directly address the housing supply crisis. Lynnwood needs to work with the Housing Authority of Snohomish County (HASCO) to build supportive housing, low-cost apartments, condominiums, townhomes, duplexes, bungalow courts, and a range of cohousing developments. This can ensure a better spectrum of housing options. Instead of building for the highest return on investment for shareholders, we can build for what works best for Lynnwood.

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

Climate change adaptation

In the U.S., climate change policy ranges from underappreciated to maliciously downplayed. More urgent matters and our four-year election cycle seem to draw attention away from this immense problem. Consequently, humanity has not yet done enough to fully mitigate the causes of climate change, and we are already seeing the results of this delay in our locally changing climate.

Where mitigating the causes of climate change must be addressed at all levels, adaptation to our changing climate is primarily a municipal problem.

Among many other things, Lynnwood needs infrastructure resiliency and cohesive disaster planning for extreme weather events, particularly with the bad faith withholding of FEMA relief.

What qualities does this office possess that makes it a unique and important part of the state government and legal system?

Lynnwood City Council, as the legislature for a code city in Washington, has an immense amount of power to enact regulation within the realm of health, safety, and general welfare. Local governments also serve as laboratories for policies that the state government may enact in the future. With these attributes, Lynnwood City Council can be more agile to implement bold solutions to its big problems, and it can be a guide for the state as a whole.

Is there a book, essay, film, or something else you would recommend to someone who wants to understand your political philosophy?

The 2012 film Lincoln was pivotal in my decision to enter law school and pursue a career in public service. The passage of the Thirteenth Amendment was such an optimistic moment in U.S. history, but it was borne out of one of its darkest periods. Its success was tied to a lawyer who ignored his political strategist, used the legal processes and his position as president, and changed our society for the better.

My political and philosophical views have also been extensively shaped by the writings of Rachel Carson, John Rawls, Albert Camus, and some of the humanist writings of Kurt Vonnegut.

What characteristics or principles are most important for an elected official?

Willingness to learn – Traditionally, if politicians changed their views on a subject they were considered to be “flip-floppers” or “wafflers.” This meant that elected officials had to pretend like they knew everything and had all the answers. Consequently, if an expert brought empirical evidence that contradicted a key view, then they would have to deny the experts to avoid appearing inconsistent. I believe that this pattern has partially created our anti-science and anti-intellectual federal government, where politicians ignore experts and cause compounding harm to our nation and planet. Having a willingness to learn and admit when you were previously wrong is massively important to any elected official.

Fairness – As much as possible, elected officials should operate under a sort of veil of ignorance toward their own personal interests. The most fair and just system would have elected officials decide on the rules for a society without knowing where in that society they exist or will end up. Without a true veil of ignorance, legislators must actively check their privilege and their personal interests to ensure that every member of a society is fairly represented. A key way to accomplish this is by seeking people who challenge one’s perspective and help consider other points of view.

Ambition – Likely every candidate has ambition, or else they would never run for office. But that ambition must extend beyond personal ambition, toward a broader ambition toward a better future for all. If an elected official implements policy for a more individualized society or for a society that only benefits the few, then they lack the appropriate ambition for an elected official. Your representatives should hold optimistic goals to drive your society toward better heights, and never be constrained by the comfort of the status quo.

What legacy would you like to leave?

I would like to be known as a bridge builder. So much of our political discourse is a sharp divide. But the division of blue vs. red and left vs. right is a false dichotomy. I firmly believe that there is more that unites us than separates us, and we can achieve so much more when we as a society work together. Our winner-take-all districts can exacerbate this seeming dichotomy where politicians from a particular party can ignore minority viewpoints while their voting base is safe.

In Lynnwood, our at-large districts tend to create a city council that can alienate minority perspectives, and I want to take active steps to remedy that. We could mitigate this uniformity of representation by setting up neighborhood advisory councils to ensure each neighborhood is receiving proper representation. We could also explore proportional ranked-choice voting to more accurately assign council seats according to differing views.

Additionally, I will actively seek to legislate for what’s best for all of Lynnwood, not just the people who voted for me. I will prioritize the welfare and cohesiveness of this city over my electability with measures like proportional ranked-choice voting.

Do you believe that it's beneficial for holders of this office to have previous experience in government or politics?

I believe it is beneficial to have familiarity with the law and the legislative process. Councilmembers will be making the laws for the city, and those laws will be subject to judicial scrutiny. Being unfamiliar with Washington’s legal system can yield ineffective or unconstitutional ordinances, which would be a waste of taxpayer resources.

Familiarity with politics is beneficial insofar as it helps with coordinating among other elected officials and with mitigating conflicts. But familiarity with politics can be a curse, where an official becomes comfortable in the status quo and avoids conflict at the expense of progress.

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