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This is good news and tremendous work from Stephen & others

But what a pathetic way to write the nation’s safety laws—a few hundred old men that nobody elected, huddled together in a Connecticut hotel and moaning about how the public is sticking its nose into things

This evening was the second to last round of voting at the ICC on E24-24, the four-story single-stair IBC proposal. It survived an attempt to require corridor separation between the stairway and the units, and then it survived a general challenge. This was a vote of building officials who traveled…

The whole hill country may float away as a great black cloud, the lakes in matching white behind, and we will still be reading the same brainless press release about congestion

I don’t think there’s any commentary I can add that the web design doesn’t already say for itself

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More trains, lower prices, record ridership, more revenue…hell yeah. Hopefully the April gas price spike attracts another record month and it builds habits that last even when prices come down.

A Brightline record in March, the first time ridership has passed the 300K mark! 🎉

March '26: 337,874, up 21% y/y
Feb: 274,100
Jan: 288,450
Dec: 292,092
Nov: 280,136
Oct: 260,370
Sept. '25: 227,851
Aug: 252,425
July: 255,472
June: 254,627
May: 256,633
April: 243,285
March: 280,003

Faculty Defect From Texas Publics, Citing Censorship Fed up with the state’s censoring of Plato, Joan of Arc and Romeo and Juliet, humanities professors are leaving Texas public institutions in pursuit of academic freedom.

'Texas A&M philosophy professor Martin Peterson is leaving the university after administrators told him in January that he couldn’t teach Plato’s Symposium in his philosophy class; they said the ancient Greek philosopher’s work violated the system’s restrictions on gender and sexuality content.' 1/3

Allison Arieff writes in the Chron about the National Single Stair Design Competition from LCI and @eastbayforeveryone.bsky.social ahead of Wednesday’s Assembly Housing committee hearing on AB 2252 (Alex Lee).

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Los Angeles has 0.52 parking spaces per job. Central Tokyo has 0.04.

The Link alone is incredible! Since the great society subways, no one else has done what Seattle has done

Austin will be lucky to be in 2033 where Seattle was in 2013

I love many Seattle urbanist accounts but they are definitely living proof of the hedonic treadmill lol

IT’S COMIN’ HOME

We won the fifth set, which normally would mean we won the match but they have to do a tie breaker thing now to defend Austin’s title because we lost the match on Thursday and this is some TELEVISION

Watching the LOVB championship and seeing these women hit something *11 feet* in the air like it’s nothing

“Why does your building have a self-esteem problem”

BART is planning changes for platform assignments at Daly City that will balance headways and enable more cross platform transfers at Bay Fair and MacArthur.

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Rent is too damn high, Illinois.

We've got a plan for that — the BUILD plan is designed to lower housing costs and increase housing supply.

The heroes discover a secret meeting of red-robed acolytes hosting a fundraiser bingo for the annual youth mission trip to The Dread Mists No Name Survives

👀

fuuuuuck I'm graduating in falling over while running and exploding in the spring, wtf I thought this was an easy meal ticket

yeah it is critical that dems win the senate

“Is the Pope Catholic?”, the Answer Might Surprise You

I heard you folks love grasssy tram tracks.

(📷 Comune di Bologna)

Granted, banning by-right zoning is obviously a massive national policy difference lol

But if the Euclid decision had been worded to define arbitrary police power a little differently, maybe that would be a widespread problem in America now too

Westminster sets the procedural framework, but the councils or boroughs draw up all the plans and review every case. In that way, is it that different from I.E. the Euclid or Kelo decisions, or the 1949 Housing Act /1968 HUD Act; setting national policy while leaving decision-making localized?

I do wonder if it even makes sense to think of British planning as pre-emption on the same spectrum as land use reforms in the US

The statutory authority comes from a centralized govt, but the actual land use decisions still seem to be incredibly localized outside of rare exigencies

Austin’s light rail bridge someday 🤞

(Except no buses please, we don’t need to duplicate service in our case)

Zoned Capacity Is Like an Artificial Oil Deposit Why cities can claim they have room for thousands of new homes on paper and still not build them

This research provides concrete evidence that, as @aarmlovi.bsky.social has argued, large-scale upzonings—enabling very substantial density in areas with high demand—can indeed attract very large amounts of new housing, beyond what we would expect otherwise.

New residential buildings in Gowanus. Source: https://www.crainsnewyork.com/real-estate/boom-times-continue-major-new-gowanus-projects/

Upzonings in New York City produced substantial increases in housing supply. Source: https://www.urban.org/research/publication/how-big-upzonings-affect-housing-supply

When NYC rezoned Brooklyn's Gowanus neighborhood to allow high-density residential uses along a cleaned-out canal, it hoped to attract thousands of new housing units.

That's exactly what it got, new research comparing upzoned areas to similar, non-upzoned areas shows: www.urban.org/research/pub...