I’m so tired of awful “leadership“ by the gerontocracy

Including the one who cares about Sunset Dunes?? Make it make sense

It's quite bad to have @indivisible.org groups using that organizing to oppose bike lanes. Really makes me question my funding to Indivisible. This is not the first example I've heard of NIMBY organizing around Indivisible.

My pickleball building code strategy is to adopt European window standards so that we can buy and manufacture triple-glazed tilt-and-turn windows at affordable prices that actually keep sound out

One of the MAJOR PROBLEMS with wealth inequality at this scale is exactly that people amass this much wealth and attendant power and then use it to say, “Policy is what I say it is, I am too powerful to offend.” They become entirely immune to policy. You can’t live that way.

Probably not a good sign for our country that, but for the likely government bailout, I would recommend shorting all 3 of the legacy US automakers.

Who did Santa leave off the Naughty List?

Who needs a village when you can have parking lots?

Happy Wednesday, folks! I’m spending my evening at a meeting of California NIMBY group Our Neighborhood Voices.

The topic? How to stop state housing bill SB79, which was signed into law, from actually being implemented!

The big draw is the special guest: the LA City Attorney's office. Yikes! 🧵

The SB125 task force is putting together its final report to the legislature this Monday, but there are 3 key things missing:
1. A state source of transit operations funding
2. Multi-year investment frameworks for capital projects
3. Funding at full design
Speak out on Monday 9/30!

Making it illegal to build new homes for yuppies does not keep older homes affordable. Rich people just buy the old homes and build luxurious new homes inside their walls, which drives up the price of housing.

I understand that this is unsatisfying to people who want housing for the neediest first.

Happy Saturday, folks! As is tradition, I'm at a meeting of statewide NIMBY group Livable California.

Today's discussion will focus on freaking out about statewide upzoning legislation (SB79) and CEQA reform. Grab some🍿, 🧵 starts here!

CA's Sen. Housing Committee has posted bill analyses (committee reports) for @scottwiener.bsky.social 's "plain bagel" upzoning bills.

Sad to report that the abundance drumbeat either was not heard by the staffers who wrote them or the chair who told the staffers what to write.

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You may have heard there’s an informational hearing about San Francisco’s new rezoning map? We are here in Room 400 doing it live! And I’m sure people will say some absolutely bonkers things.

Been a while since I’ve done one of these so please forgive me if I’m a lil rusty!

CA state auditor is reviewing HCD's review of housing elements, at behest of state senator who says reviews are too unpredictable & take too long.

@nmarantz.bsky.social, @elpaavo.bsky.social and I submitted a comment letter.


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I would love to see this with a 10 year history on the issue graphs

Muni to cut service on some bus lines this summer as it confronts $50 million shortfall Muni will cut service on some San Francisco bus lines this summer as the transit agency confronts a $50 million operating shortfall.

SF's refusal to charge for parking on Sunday is so mysterious. It's like a blue law for bad transit www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/m...

Getting those sweet clicks!

Great to see you here, Bobak! 😊

I would like to remind you all that when you block me it becomes much more difficult to educate me and correct my foul behavior . Thank you

There is currently a rush by California officials, all the way up to the governor's office, to enable rebuilding in a manner that will GUARANTEE a repeat of this disaster. We need to be a lot smarter about this.

Do yourself a favor and use the lists to Block junk accounts 👇

The 100-Year Road to Car Dependency in the US October 8, 2024, marks the centennial of the publication of what would soon become the Los Angeles Traffic Ordinance — a landmark on the road toward our car-dominated status quo.

“Americans did not choose car dependency. We didn’t vote for it, and it was not the winner in a free market competition. The real answer is complex, but a single turning point reveals an essential part of the story.”

www.planetizen.com/features/132...

North Beach NIMBYs want to freeze the neighborhood in amber. Don't let them! The NIMBY forces of North Beach are at it again. They have a plan to designate the neighborhood as a historic district by the State Historical Resources Commission. The reason? They want to exempt the...

If you think we shouldn’t be blanket applying historic preservation to parking garages and the burned out husk of 659 Union, tell the commission!

actionnetwork.org/petitions/no...

Per Reddit, this Passive House - super energy efficient with an airtight building envelope that doesn’t breath in burning embers from the air, survived a fire that consumed all of its neighbors.

Visited a passive built apartment building just south of Boston, felt like walking into a bank vault.

Map showing the number of times a location has burned in SoCal and which kind of fire it was: one burning under Santa Ana winds, or one that was a summer, fuel-driven fire without Santa Ana winds. Malibu area had burned at least 8 times from 1900-2017, and has burned twice now since. Image from Kolden and Abatzoglou (2018): https://www.mdpi.com/2571-6255/1/2/19

Here's the reality about the #LAFires this week: this isn't the first time ANY of these places have burned. Not even close. In 2018, we mapped CA fire history to look at fire frequency across SoCal. Santa Monica Mtns area burns more than anywhere else -- up to once per decade in a given spot. 🧵

Seventy years of building in the wildland urban interface in California. Apropos of nothing, we should maybe, idk, stop doing that?

A former Single Family Home lot is now home to a dozen families, six front and six rear. Instead of 1-4 people, 12-48+ people can live in the same lot. This is natural evolution. Walk, Bike, Density, Evolution, Housing, Urbanism

One home becomes 12 homes

Congratulations, New York City! Now please stop calling it "congestion pricing". It's the "Congestion Relief Zone," because congestion relief is what the toll buys.