"The state's grid operator predicted peak electricity demand surpassing 367 gigawatts by 2032 — more than four times the current all-time peak of 85,508 megawatts recorded in August 2023."
www.dallasnews.com/business/ene...
36 mostly former party staff, elected officials and some not-yet-elected officials vs ~800 supporters including current legislators is a "feud" and not just bitterness?
I found out that Dallas County published the index to deeds going back to the 1800s which ended up being a very fun dive into history.
Even if it was ultimately fruitless for my purposes I learned a lot about how we kept track of all this stuff way back when.
I'm one of five so it must have been the same way but when my three kids are playing it truly sounds like serious injury is imminent at all times.
Infinite money for police facilities while the libraries are at 2006 funding levels.
Circles are expensive and hard to build...but sometimes they just look so good.
The Dallas Mavericks can go to hell for thinking they can demolish Dallas City Hall
I'm listening to too many clean energy podcasts so I'm setting a home solar cost tracker (materials only) for a 16kw hybrid solar setup with 14kwh battery. Why? Because I am an accountant and love spreadsheets.
Photo of a battery bank plugged into the solar panel
My balcony solar is pulling in 101 watts (I saw it peak at 109 watts)
The real take here is that any portion of the budget besides Police and Fire is mostly inconsequential yet that is the only budget that can never decrease.
I will be reviewing my property tax payment after seeing that the City Manager's salary is greater than my own.
My #1 when I can 2-4 hours of free time 😅
Seems like Dallas always dodges the droughts:
The lot had a structure on it before 1984 (visible in historic aerials and rental ads). The lot probably pre-dates the advent of zoning in Dallas.
The difficulty is proving one of these: permits that old may not have been retained. The 1929 trick will require a dive into the Courthouse records.
Gotta start 'em young: "bred for a single purpose: to destroy the world of men"
No, they can do setbacks, width, depth, coverage, height, sidewalks, off-street parking or off-street loading, or landscape regulations but NOT minimum lot size!
-City has no record of permits (record keeping is...spotty at best before 1978)
-County chain of title breaks down in the 1970s (at least online)
-Who wants to go through rezoning for a 2,000sqft lot?
Zoning is a trip:
-See an interesting lot for sale
-It doesn't meet minimum lot size
-Opt 1: Prove it had a permitted structure on it before 1984
-Opt 2: Prove it has had same legal bounds since 1929
-Opt 3: Rezone because no city body has the power to grant exceptions to minimum lot size (lol)
First game of War of the Ring with my eight year old.
Her brilliant assault on Gondor stalled out despite swiftly conquering Minas Tirith, Pelargir, and Dol Amroth. Aragorn mustered a counteroffensive with reinforcements from the elves and retook Dol Amroth buying precious time for the ring bearer
He elaborates in this post:
bsky.app/profile/pipe...
Looks like someone had a successful hunt. #caturday
*Swoon*
This means we're paying a lot for:
1-More material (bigger pipes)
2-More labor (harder to work with bigger pipes)
3-Bigger connections (cities charge by connection size)
These costs are hidden even from builders and plumbers who just follow what code says without knowing it's overkill.
Dallas doesn't have many tools available to encourage home ownership but it could remove the minimum lot size.
~90% of Dallas residential land is zoned for large lot detached homes (excluding SB840). Over 50% of Dallasites live in multi-family homes. That's 50% of people living on 10% of the land.
In this case I meant HOT as "Hotel Occupancy Taxes" and not "High Occupancy Toll lanes", but either way...our HOT are NOT being used well.
I didn't grow up in Texas so I missed the glorious Texas history classes of middle school, but I read "Forget the Alamo" a few years ago and really had to laugh at the whole rigamarole.
Insurance renewals not looking great next year.
The conceit that staff and hotels would have you believe is that HOT money funding the convention center can only be used on the convention center. Almost certainly not true but nobody has even tried to propose something else so...convention centers forever.
I recommend saving $500m-$5B by not building the convention center at all.
But i'll take keeping the bridge connections to Oak Cliff as a consolation prize.
