Often feels to me like some of stuff that was said about protesting at the DNC versus CPAC, with people being scared of the far right.

I wonder if some of the media kowtowing isn't just "I can prove to him I'm one of the good ones."

I feel like that's just flat out true of most "leftist" outsider candidates? They may be more or less left flavored but usually it ends up just sounding libertarian talking points.

I've said this before and it might still be my hottest take, but, the new Caltrains are *way* too quiet.

The old ones were loud and that wasn't great, but at least you couldn't hear every conversation around you.

Usually that's against businesses or pretty small government things (like a building or an event), versus a scatter shot city wide thing.

I'm not deep enough in ADA litigation to really have an answer on that, but I know that it's within the norm to file specious cases against the government for similar things and then drop them in exchange for something else.

That's a huge volume of CEQA litigation, for example.

Maybe? Hahn was invoking a lot of this to block theoretical development in her district well before Hopkins was a thing.

Plus you had all the stuff around obscure CEQA challenges to student housing.

Money. Litigators ask for either a settlement or get attorneys fees, as well as creating a huge and valuable city contract to fix the defects.

Re: construction labor - something I think a lot of people don't get is that it doesn't matter if your project/contract/whatever uses zero undocumented labor.

We already have a construction labor shortage. A loss of a chunk of that means even more competition and scarcity for the rest.

Can confirm, Los Gatos got hit with one of these in 2021/2022 - something like 20,000 individual complaints, a lot of which were completely spurious.

Wasn't this already required by SB937?

I mean, the adjacent communities (and places like mountain house) say that's kind of true?

People want homes. This areas a better commute than Tracy.

Mass market stuff is often both better written and *vastly* more culturally important than literary fiction with a tiny audience.

The fact that MFA programs almost universally prioritize the latter is a big part of why our country is how it is now.

30 an acre feels off? It's big enough to pull it off I guess but having spent the better part of a decade doing resi, townhomes have trouble actually hitting 30 unless you net out streets, and anything dense is *a lot* denser.

Wells Fargo is truly awful, but nothing about this in any way helps Wells Fargo, especially not on a building in default. It's valuation will absolutely crater after something like this.

If anything it's a quiet threat to lenders from the Trump Admin, something they've been doing a lot of.

You don't understand! what about the views from his house! Monopoly bad that's why we can't allow people to build housing!

First, their arguments generally speak against the safety of single-stair buildings. But…LA’s building code already allows them up to three stories for apartments, and many single-family houses go up to four stories with even fewer protections. So are they saying the existing code is unsafe too…?

Agreed with the caveat that there is a need to counter the attitudes in some segments of liberal arts education around "selling out" if you don't only engage in pure academia as a career.

What was the rationale they put forward?! Didn't have this one on my radar.

The site has a pretty crazy grade change too, I'm not actually sure apartments would work easily? I'd like to see it denser but I think it'd be a serious challenge to get above townhome density.

1.23 acres is large, but, property itself would be fighting.

This has been through the surplus lands act at least once. No one is building multifamily on the site, and in this day and age it's not clear that would even pencil it there was interest.

What is LPE when it's at home? Not an acronym I've run into before.

I mean in the world where you can call a cab via Lyft or flywheel it seems like this is a solved problem?

Yes.

Isn't this probably in part because even with the 4% tax on income over $1m, Massachusetts tax rates are some of the lowest of states that charge an income tax?

The only other income tax is just a flat 5%.

Eh, if you talk to a lot of left NIMBYs you often get a weird racist hodgepodge about how poor people of color don't like "nice things."

Stuff like this is often less confusion and more just a very loud dog whistle.

I'm more asking for what you mean by stats. If you're talking about how often §47 ASV has been invoked in SF, it's twice.

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I think to some extent this is an appetite question. Biden never really *tried* to end a lot of the tariffs, and support for tariffs has never been very low on a lot of chunks of the left.

Depends on how things shake out whether we keep them.

I mean state preemption applies to the ordinance as I understand it, the facades aren't original, and maintain a facade doesn't maintain much of anything anyway.

Makes sense if you consider it as a tax to balance the cuts in his OBBB.