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Cutting the affordability requirement would’ve raised net operating income by around 10%. Given they went to the effort to submit a multifam planning application, the choice between the Taco Bell drive-thru and the 123-unit apartment building was probably close, and that 10% would’ve flipped it

“Dave” brain

Yes a good reason to have not just accessibility but cost savings be in the departmental remit!

You keep speaking positively of the ICC’s speed but the speed seems to have mostly produced a piece of manure so I’m not sure that speaks positively of their process.

Like this is super odd.

1. It seems unlikely a national code statute will be adopted within the next 2.5 years
2. A national HUD code would be the #1 priority at HUD (unlike OHSA at labor)
3. Most to all state governments has shown ~no interest in international standards.

Im actually not sure what the actual legal interface cross department here is. I know we were granted social dispensation from Congress to draft a rule on general high speed noise, and we can regulate operational choices for safety reasons.

Yes there are controlling EPA rules about ~all noise emissions.

Why are you assuming the federal code would start with four stories and non-ISO elevators.

But the federal government has not codified every instance sounding the horn is or isn’t allowed.

The federal government has noise regulations but there is a secondary set of controlling standards dictated by internal railroad operating rules.

A great example of this is “the tunnel is sounded when exiting a tunnel” on Amtrak which you can clearly hear when they exit the Hudson tunnel.

There’s a reason I said “supercharge”

Got it.

The obvious reason is to create a single national market much like the EU has but supercharged.

Almost no economic activity isn’t interstate commerce. The founders wrote a provision that is far more powerful in the 21st than the 18th

The USA airport network behaves similarly. With a lot of FAA rule setting.

Yeah Canada famously has never had a real intercity transport plan at the national level.

Sure. There’s a big north-south we should govern/we shouldn’t divide.

The fact Mahan is universally endorsed by the tech on twitter set seems like a great argument against him.

Does anyone on this site like any candidate for governor though? That’s my super naive question.

You and I share the same brainwaves.

I know of a program that worked exactly like this, and it’s my least favorite in American history lol.

Great news but it never ceases to annoy me that we had a Lyme disease vaccine that got pulled because of antivaxxers

Something like cross government coordination?

Sacramento’s most legendary parking enforcement officer gave out 22,000 tickets last year 2025 marked another outstanding year for Parking Enforcement Officer Grant Nakamura, the hardest-working man in Sacramento.

“No infraction seems to escape him. Nakamura can hear a meter expire in the night the way an owl hears a mouse across a snowy clearing in the woods…”

So a separate totally unaddressed issue is if there should ever be a time where an operator is not allowed to blow his horn. There’s no federal rule for that and imo that’s much better handled through local operating practice.

plenty of unfair fights on alon’s list

It does not violate the tenth amendment. Housing is interstate commerce. We’ve discussed this. Your argument of course is basically an argument against any federal regulation of anything.

yeah that seemed fine. I was specifically advocating against optimal placement.

This report seems to be saying the optimal place to locate them involves drilling a new shaft