Ian Wolfe
@ianmwolfe.bsky.social
Baltimore stuff, mostly. Greektown good
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I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons
December 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons
Yes and also the land uses currently permitted in PC-2 and up allow many things that would be criminally bad land use there. The council should tighten that up, lest the remaining parcels just end up data centers, a quick pay day for whatever bank buys the complex.
In 2016 Kevin Plank asked for & got zoning for unlimited height at his Dubai on the Patapsco—enough capacity for 14,000 housing units. City Council needs to repeal remaining TIF authority to exercise oversight over issuance of add’l bonds & what can be built by a new owner. @zekecohen.bsky.social
Kevin Plank exiting future development at Baltimore Peninsula
December 18, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Yes and also the land uses currently permitted in PC-2 and up allow many things that would be criminally bad land use there. The council should tighten that up, lest the remaining parcels just end up data centers, a quick pay day for whatever bank buys the complex.
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Today’s hearing on the Baltimore Children and Youth Fund could lead to much-needed accountability. tinyurl.com/9zvpkpfv Right now, sketchy grantmaking and lack of meaningful outcomes reporting make it hard to say if the funds are going to grassroots groups as intended. [OP-ED]
Today’s hearing on the Baltimore Children and Youth Fund could lead to much-needed accountability | Baltimore Brew
The funds are supposed to go to grassroots groups. Is that happening? It’s hard to say due to BCYF’s sketchy grantmaking and lack of meaningful outcomes reporting. [OP-ED]
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December 18, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Today’s hearing on the Baltimore Children and Youth Fund could lead to much-needed accountability. tinyurl.com/9zvpkpfv Right now, sketchy grantmaking and lack of meaningful outcomes reporting make it hard to say if the funds are going to grassroots groups as intended. [OP-ED]
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@zekecohen.bsky.social asks Conway to refrain from negative invocations of "politics" & to "maintain decorum."
December 15, 2025 at 10:48 PM
@zekecohen.bsky.social asks Conway to refrain from negative invocations of "politics" & to "maintain decorum."
what is it about realtors in this city and having terrible opinions
December 6, 2025 at 5:23 PM
what is it about realtors in this city and having terrible opinions
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Are they gonna have Virginia plates too?
Waymo driverless rides coming to Baltimore, Moore touts "long, proud tradition of embracing innovation"
Waymo driverless rides coming to Baltimore, Moore touts "long, proud tradition of embracing innovation"
Baltimore has been added to the list of U.S. cities that will welcome autonomous ride-hailing service Waymo to its streets.
www.cbsnews.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Are they gonna have Virginia plates too?
While I have been somewhat skeptical of Mamdani’s proposal to make the bus free, funding it with paid parking would be good policy and good politics.
New Yorkers: read this piece, makes total sense. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/o...
December 3, 2025 at 9:12 PM
can’t be any worse than Actual Baltimore Drivers tbf
Waymo driverless rides coming to Baltimore, Moore touts "long, proud tradition of embracing innovation"
Waymo driverless rides coming to Baltimore, Moore touts "long, proud tradition of embracing innovation"
Baltimore has been added to the list of U.S. cities that will welcome autonomous ride-hailing service Waymo to its streets.
www.cbsnews.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:01 PM
can’t be any worse than Actual Baltimore Drivers tbf
I was visited by a pair of raccoons last night and then a dang possum!
December 3, 2025 at 11:51 AM
I was visited by a pair of raccoons last night and then a dang possum!
This one is even more brazen, because this time they put their words in the mouth of an AI character who claims to be a specific person: "Zoe Billings, a Baltimore native and correspondent"
Needless to say, this person does not exist.
Needless to say, this person does not exist.
November 30, 2025 at 6:30 PM
This one is even more brazen, because this time they put their words in the mouth of an AI character who claims to be a specific person: "Zoe Billings, a Baltimore native and correspondent"
Needless to say, this person does not exist.
Needless to say, this person does not exist.
the anti-HOOA folks have made something wonderful
November 30, 2025 at 1:26 PM
the anti-HOOA folks have made something wonderful
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Thank you. It should go w/o saying but needs to be said, over & over. Neither the market nor the gov’t have capacity to meet the full spectrum of housing needs & incomes.
Just a reminder. Just b/c new market-rate housing opens up units (good thing usually, if aren’t physically displacing low-cost units), including lower-cost units, 1) doesn’t mean that all those units will all go to low-income households; 2) doesn’t provide long-term, stable, deeply affordable units.
November 28, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Thank you. It should go w/o saying but needs to be said, over & over. Neither the market nor the gov’t have capacity to meet the full spectrum of housing needs & incomes.
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like, of course new things cost more than old things. new cars cost more than used cars do. but if you stopped making any new cars, all the used cars would quickly get very expensive both to lease or buy
this could be a complete strawman but I think a portion of bad housing takes involve the tacit assertion that newly constructed housing should command the same exchange price as or lower than for existing housing, which just doesn't make an awful lot of sense
November 28, 2025 at 5:40 PM
like, of course new things cost more than old things. new cars cost more than used cars do. but if you stopped making any new cars, all the used cars would quickly get very expensive both to lease or buy
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Interesting new working paper that studies chains of movers after the construction of a new apartment building in Honolulu.
Paper finds that the project resulted in the opening up other, lower cost, housing on the island, benefiting the housing market overall.
Paper finds that the project resulted in the opening up other, lower cost, housing on the island, benefiting the housing market overall.
uhero.hawaii.edu
November 28, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Interesting new working paper that studies chains of movers after the construction of a new apartment building in Honolulu.
Paper finds that the project resulted in the opening up other, lower cost, housing on the island, benefiting the housing market overall.
Paper finds that the project resulted in the opening up other, lower cost, housing on the island, benefiting the housing market overall.
“The rally is a last-ditch effort by bill opponents to make their case, up against social media–conversant bill supporters who have the weight of City Hall and the Cockeysville-based advocacy group BaltPOP on their side.” lmao but how do you REALLY feel?
Baltimore residents rally to say: bills removing zoning guardrails will worsen racial disparities, not heal them tinyurl.com/yc6vu3ft “We have heard every justification possible, every fallacy used to advance this bill."
Residents rally to say: removing zoning guardrails will worsen racial disparities, not heal them | Baltimore Brew
“We have heard every justification possible, every fallacy used to advance this bill,” protesters against Brandon Scott’s Baltimore upzoning measure said outside City Hall yesterday.
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November 25, 2025 at 4:38 PM
“The rally is a last-ditch effort by bill opponents to make their case, up against social media–conversant bill supporters who have the weight of City Hall and the Cockeysville-based advocacy group BaltPOP on their side.” lmao but how do you REALLY feel?
if you ever rt’d Justice for Becky when Yitzy and Costello were bullying her for doing her job, hear her out now too
"Why I lost faith in zoning." tinyurl.com/5n8sh428 Baltimore’s former zoning board executive director, on why she supports @mayorbmscott.bsky.social bills to promote more density and multi-family housing in the city. [OP-ED]
Baltimore’s former zoning board director explains why she lost faith in zoning | Baltimore Brew
The mayor’s “Housing Options and Opportunity” legislation – including Bill 25-0066 – will go a long way toward fixing an unfair system. [OP-ED]
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November 24, 2025 at 8:45 PM
if you ever rt’d Justice for Becky when Yitzy and Costello were bullying her for doing her job, hear her out now too
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Great piece on how density restrictions in zoning are essentially BS.
November 24, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Great piece on how density restrictions in zoning are essentially BS.
it appears the number of households in Baltimore City are coming back
November 23, 2025 at 1:57 PM
it appears the number of households in Baltimore City are coming back
"Baltimore now faces a choice: Do we want a city that adapts, welcomes new residents and gives longtime neighbors more options to stay? Or do we cling to a past shaped by exclusion and scarcity?" 🔥 from @ohamza.bsky.social
By enabling “gentle density,” @mayorbmscott.bsky.social
zoning legislation will support real people with real needs in my neighborhood. Anxieties about it, while sincere, are misplaced. tinyurl.com/29z4wv3f [OP-ED]
zoning legislation will support real people with real needs in my neighborhood. Anxieties about it, while sincere, are misplaced. tinyurl.com/29z4wv3f [OP-ED]
Scott’s zoning bills will support real people with real needs by enabling “gentle density” | Baltimore Brew
The changes will make Baltimore a city that welcomes new residents and gives longtime neighbors more options to stay. [OP-ED]
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November 18, 2025 at 4:15 PM
"Baltimore now faces a choice: Do we want a city that adapts, welcomes new residents and gives longtime neighbors more options to stay? Or do we cling to a past shaped by exclusion and scarcity?" 🔥 from @ohamza.bsky.social
I planted this pepper cultivar ‘Armaggedon’ on a whim this year, thinking maybe I’d get one or two novelty peppers. But it did so well, I have dozens of these 1.3 million scoville things to deal with. I’ve nibbled off a couple of them and they’re hilarious hot. No idea what to do with them.
November 18, 2025 at 2:31 PM
I planted this pepper cultivar ‘Armaggedon’ on a whim this year, thinking maybe I’d get one or two novelty peppers. But it did so well, I have dozens of these 1.3 million scoville things to deal with. I’ve nibbled off a couple of them and they’re hilarious hot. No idea what to do with them.