perhaps we should embrace the fact that none of us has ever seen anything like this and the range of plausible outcomes is pretty fucking wide

can't blame him; it's a lovely day outside

yeah there's not much utility to following city politics this closely, unless angrying up the blood is a goal

He's been the villain of like half the Brew's articles in the last year because of the land use package, which rightly or wrongly he was seen as the prime mover behind. Hell, Torrence outright asked for all land use bills to be stripped from his committee just back in December.

ironically I think the reason people see him On Here less these days is he has a lot more power under Zeke than Mosby, and consequently is getting more of a chance to get stuff done. He’s not just the chair of land use & transportation but in lead of the ongoing charter review process

Mark parker is car-free and gets to city hall by bike when it’s not too messy (then he’s on the bus)

Neighborhood scale upzonings increased housing production in many NYC neighborhoods

Upzoned block faces saw significant increases in housing unit permits in Philadelphia

How do upzonings impact housing supply?

In brand-new research published today @urbaninstitute.bsky.social, we show that big upzonings in New York City & Philadelphia had large, statistically significant effects on supply & permitting with several years of reforms.

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@mdotmtaholly.bsky.social @govwesmoore.bsky.social I was talking to a friend who has unreasonable access to AI and he had fun with a crayon I gave him for Reistertown Station.

In particular - axe Wabash Ave! It ends at Patterson Ave anyway! Even the AI struggled to take it out.

Stabler SVU meme where he admonishes the bad guy.

Two broken crabapple branches

Absolutely, but particularly larger projects also have to answer to the bank, and they *do* want an economically rational use of their investment

New Housing Slows Rent Growth Most for Older, More Affordable Units The nationwide housing shortage has driven rents up more in low-income neighborhoods than in the U.S. overall, but in areas that have recently added large amounts of housing, rents have fallen the mos...

www.pew.org/en/research-... partly because of inflation, partly because the supply crisis is so acute, the measure is more about lower rate of increase rather than an outright decline. But there the data is pretty clear on the correlation

Also, those grates are really, really heavy, it turns out.

a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a car . ALT: a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a car .

A couple days ago I had a pair of garden shears fall out of my pocket and into a storm drain.

Not willing to take the loss, I bought a fishing magnet to try to get it out, only to realize the grate is itself magnetic, and it wasn’t practical to actually get it through.

I definitely left the windows open too long 🥶

Oh It Makes Me MAD............... YouTube video by lewistaylor1965

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A long-suffering hawthorn tree with a torn, hanging branch.

First day back from break, and there’s already a serious arboreal casualty at the local elementary school. I don’t think there’s a harder place to be a street tree.

Agreed!

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Lunar Flyby - NASA

Oh this is great: there’s now an #Artemis II Lunar Flyby Gallery on the NASA images site: www.nasa.gov/gallery/luna... (thx @dpmanchee.bsky.social for pointing it out)

any relation to the one from Canton?

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"Safe infrastructure is the key that unlocks growth."

New data from NYC, London, Paris, and Berlin proves that when we build for people, ridership follows. Paris hitting 11% mode share isn’t an accident, it’s a design choice.

Cc: @urbantruth.bsky.social @jbwicz.bsky.social

Bill that would charge fewer youths as adults headed to Gov. Moore The Youth Charging Reform Act heads to Gov. Moore, shifting most teen assault and gun cases to juvenile court under new Maryland law.

A bill that would reduce the number of crimes that automatically result in adult charges for teenagers has made it through the General Assembly and is headed to Gov. Wes Moore’s desk, reports @maddioneill.bsky.social:

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