THE Becerra Campaign has apparently not met the IP lawyers from the Ad Counsel. Have a feeling they made their acquaintance today!

New paper out today. States are handing out tax abatements to data centers, and while that once made sense, it doesn’t anymore—at least not without conditions. Here’s a thread on what a better deal could look like. 🧵

Yup. June of 2017. Think about that timing...

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You know what's even bigger? The solar system, that's what. So much empty space out there....

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SO BIG!!!!

We have similar rules around here. But the Marin version.

Underrated trails of the Marin Headlands.

They thought about banning on-street parking to widen the streets. But the objections were so strong because of the cost of building garages that the city backed away. Oakland had a parcel fee for a decade to work on evac routes. It just missed being extended in an off year election in… 2017.

The view down California St from the top of Nob Hill 120 years ago today.

Look at the terrified people. They look numb. Dumbfounded by what is coming at them.

We need to think hard about this even thought is seems so unreal. It will happen again.

Firefighters I know always talk about the sound that really big high intensity wildfires make.

Like the sound the Dixie Fire made as it came down the east slope of the Sierra with two intertwined fire tornados.

Just try to imagine the sound in that place for all those people watching in 1906.

Same happy family spotted on my run today along the levee.

Half a loaf of delayed community wildfire safety is better than no loaf at all delivered never.

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Sitting in traffic at the highway exit. Be sure to look out the window!

GA at the Fox on.a Friday with my wife. Nothing beats it. Love the Bay Area.

I think a lot about that fire. I was at an event at a home on Roble Road above Chabot Canyon Racquet Club last week and all of my fire antenna were screaming. That fire is a lesson. But it has been long enough since the Tunnel Fire that it may as well not have happened from a fuels perspective.

The only alternative to grazing is fire. And we can pick. Do we want to have grazing, good rangeland fire under safe, prescribed conditions, or high intensity wildfire under the worst conditions.

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This is fascinating. Not surprising. An illustration today of what happened everywhere else in Marin over the 20th century as Coastal California was developed. Through my childhood to now, same thing has happened in the GGNRA, before that it was Eastern Marin.

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Sending you Tam Valley healing energy!

And that’s before you actually hire an arborist to cut the trees. Which ain’t cheap in SF Bay Area. (Just good that there isn’t any history of dangerous fires around here.) Where I live, you can count on 5k per large tree. Euks can easily cost more.

I just looked at the ordinance. That is dangerous in my view. It will systematically promote very unnatural fuel loads on the landscape. In order to responsibly manage the land you have to have the money to do a tree survey, file a permit, and then pay a lot of money to remove fuel. That’s typical.

Btw couldn’t agree more about speed cameras. The more the better! Yes please!

The problem is that when you neglect land (ie deprive the land of fire when it is fire adapted) and especially if you are then watering the land (say from water imported via aqueduct from the Sierra) you get tons and tons of fuel. If the fire is hot enough, even the large diameter fuel will combust.

I don’t know the Oakland ordinance. But I would say generally that tree cover in a lot of neighborhoods where these are actively enforced is much greater than pre-colonial. The trees tend to be smaller diameter of course. Preserving that, even when the trees are oaks, can create risk.

Nope. Just work. But maybe tomorrow. And I love that smile! You were in all the great places!

Law review article forthcoming. And we are talking with entrepreneurial plaintiff attorneys about the legal concepts. For a preview, take a look at what is going on with Land trusts and Malibu and the Pacific Palisades neighborhood. If any of those cases succeed, fundamental change will occur.

Respectfully, I disagree. He is being fined for cutting down trees on his own land. There is a separate process to penalize him for cutting trees that are not on his own land. Those are different issues.

On the other hand, to the degree that that guy was cutting trees on other peoples property, he should absolutely be liable for trespass and damages. But that is not the issue before the council.

There are many many laws on the books that are not enforced or are enforced only with police and prosecutorial discretion. The most notable and familiar example is the speed limit.

I guess is that essentially all of the people complaining about this have no idea what the pre-colonial, fire evolved Oakland looked like in terms of tree cover. And they don’t care to know.

Vacant lots in that area are generally allowed to be maintained in an unreasonably unsafe condition and a major factor in that are the combined effect of neglect and tree removal ordinances.