"While we're talking about who NOT to vote for, I give you Planning Commissioner and proud ultra-YIMBY, Seema Patel. ... Here she is in a recent picture she posted with Senator Wiener and other YIMBY faithfuls ... to strip all local control from cities"

San Mateo - vote for Seema Patel!

There were a lot of people in that room, and they're not all MAGA. There are people in a position to swear the dude was sloshed.

This doesn't answer the question. If the developer builds a building that no one wants to live in, planning to sell to a landlord, how does that work? Why would any landlord buy such a building? Why would anyone want to own such a money-losing building? There's no tax break for empty rental units.

Are you saying that builders are going to build apartments that no one wants to rent? That seems like a self-limiting situation.

Is this the pro-dead-children group?

The Kings are one loss closer to a sweep.

It’s extremely odd not to realize that there are households who have homes but no cars. It’s like not knowing vegetarians exist.

It’s very odd not to know that some households don’t have cars

High rents, constrained supply, but high building costs, high fees, IZ, long approval times mean almost nothing pencils and almost nothing gets built. It’s a mistake to imagine housing development is infinitely profitable.

I'm saying market rate units in buildings subject to IZ are built to a HIGHER standard, aimed at a higher income level, because they need the higher profit from the market rate units to cover the cost of the IZ units. I view this as bad.

If IZ drives down homebuilding in the short term you don't get to the long term.

IZ slows homebuilding, so that excellent goal is not being achieved in many places with IZ. I live in Silicon Valley, and I know IZ is slowing homebuilding here because I've seen the pro formas.

IZ programs drive up the cost of market-rate units, because projects with more modest, lower-cost market rate units don't offset the cost of the IZ.

Can you give me examples of places where the density bonus actually offsets the cost of building the units? California has a density bonus, but (at least in my area) it does not offset the inclusionary units. And not every project can even use the extra density, especially small projects.

The Montgomery County program pairs the inclusionary requirement with density bonuses, supposedly offsetting the cost. I don't object to funded inclusionary zoning.

I do not want to create an account or open a subscription I just want to buy a thing and never hear from you again why is this so hard.

Do you think that development projects are all so extremely profitable, every one, that requiring developers to give away some of their units below cost doesn't make any difference, doesn't make any projects money-losing that otherwise would be money-making? It never stops housing from being built?

Brilliant idea! If we make the housing unprofitable, nobody will build it and we’ll get no affordable housing and also no market rate housing. Perfect NIMBY success.

Why isn’t this a story about hungry sea lions driven up the river?

Exactly what kinds of dances is he planning to have in that ballroom?

You didn't watch the third period, did you?

He's despicable. But he did not defend drugging a woman and raping her. He didn't say she is asking to be drugged and raped against her will.

I think we must have different definitions of blackout drunk. The definition I posted is something that is not known at the time, and is only known in retrospect.

I'm not suspicious in the slightest of the women accusing Swalwell. I think they're telling the truth. I'm glad that sleaze is out of the governor's race, and I hope he's prosecuted.

Why are you seeking confirmation that not raping a woman is actually rape? The idea if a man has intercourse with a woman after she has had any any alcohol, that's rape—this is nuts, and it is not the law.

What's the due diligence?

You think someone should go to jail for sleeping with a woman after meeting her at a bar? Wow. That's strict.

Do you think it is rape for you to hook up with her, even if she enthusiastically consents?

How is a person supposed to know whether someone else is in a blackout? When I was driving my husband home from a colonoscopy, he was in a drug-induced blackout, and I did not know this, even though I know him well. You cannot expect people to know things it's impossible to know.

even if it later transpires that she was in an alcoholic blackout. Outside observers cannot reasonably know whether someone is in an alcoholic blackout.

Offering women drink after drink, in hopes the alcohol will overcome their sober judgement, is sleazy. Sleeping with subordinates is unethical.