Anthony Lazarus
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Anthony Lazarus
@srlazarus.bsky.social
· Oct 10
welcome to the future! with SB 79 and the rezoning plan from Mayor Daniel Lurie, #SF enters a new pro-housing, pro-transit era that will be more inclusive and more affordable.
the status quo wasn't working. it's kind of messed up that there was so much resistance to changing it
the status quo wasn't working. it's kind of messed up that there was so much resistance to changing it
quelle surprise
Tanner and the Mayor's office rep says Chan's office didn't propose any alternatives to make up that capacity elsewhere.
November 18, 2025 at 3:05 AM
quelle surprise
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Another note about that map 👆🏼. Alongside higher ceilings denoted by pretty colors, the steel-gray of every block in those neighborhoods = "density decontrol." That is, no height increase but more density within each parcel. So a single-family mansion might become a bldg with several apts
November 18, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Another note about that map 👆🏼. Alongside higher ceilings denoted by pretty colors, the steel-gray of every block in those neighborhoods = "density decontrol." That is, no height increase but more density within each parcel. So a single-family mansion might become a bldg with several apts
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@myrnamelgard7.bsky.social takes on Chan's "pitting west side vs east side" comment (award for top demagoguery of the day). Melgar: SF *downzoned* the west side in the 70s. Racism/segregation contributed to that prohibition of multifamily housing and concentrated development on the east side.
November 18, 2025 at 12:51 AM
@myrnamelgard7.bsky.social takes on Chan's "pitting west side vs east side" comment (award for top demagoguery of the day). Melgar: SF *downzoned* the west side in the 70s. Racism/segregation contributed to that prohibition of multifamily housing and concentrated development on the east side.
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One more thing. When I wrote about this study showing one-third of Americans don't drive, people were messaging me saying this cannot be true for LA.
In LA County *23 percent* of the population is under 16. Kids are people! We must plan for their movement, just like all nondrivers. Hope that helps!
In LA County *23 percent* of the population is under 16. Kids are people! We must plan for their movement, just like all nondrivers. Hope that helps!
Highly recommend diving into NRDC's study on car access, which @keawilson.bsky.social wrote about here: usa.streetsblog.org/2025/10/02/report-16-million-have-no-car-access-at-all
Where Nadir was killed, 14% of LA households are car-free. But the infrastructure does not match that reality
Where Nadir was killed, 14% of LA households are car-free. But the infrastructure does not match that reality
November 13, 2025 at 5:04 PM
One more thing. When I wrote about this study showing one-third of Americans don't drive, people were messaging me saying this cannot be true for LA.
In LA County *23 percent* of the population is under 16. Kids are people! We must plan for their movement, just like all nondrivers. Hope that helps!
In LA County *23 percent* of the population is under 16. Kids are people! We must plan for their movement, just like all nondrivers. Hope that helps!
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Fun fact, Calvin Welch, Sue Hestor and co tried to NIMBY my multi-family home before it could be built.
They failed, but they killed some housing for seniors along the way.
Snippet courtesy of TribTowerViews
They failed, but they killed some housing for seniors along the way.
Snippet courtesy of TribTowerViews
October 21, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Fun fact, Calvin Welch, Sue Hestor and co tried to NIMBY my multi-family home before it could be built.
They failed, but they killed some housing for seniors along the way.
Snippet courtesy of TribTowerViews
They failed, but they killed some housing for seniors along the way.
Snippet courtesy of TribTowerViews
welcome to the future! with SB 79 and the rezoning plan from Mayor Daniel Lurie, #SF enters a new pro-housing, pro-transit era that will be more inclusive and more affordable.
the status quo wasn't working. it's kind of messed up that there was so much resistance to changing it
the status quo wasn't working. it's kind of messed up that there was so much resistance to changing it
October 10, 2025 at 6:02 PM
welcome to the future! with SB 79 and the rezoning plan from Mayor Daniel Lurie, #SF enters a new pro-housing, pro-transit era that will be more inclusive and more affordable.
the status quo wasn't working. it's kind of messed up that there was so much resistance to changing it
the status quo wasn't working. it's kind of messed up that there was so much resistance to changing it
i began my transit advocacy ~25 years ago when a few neighbors and embittered merchants had epic meltdowns over improving our Geary bus line thefrisc.com/the-ballad-o...
NIMBYs and dead-enders can still bellyache all they want. but now #SF and other cities have now entered a new era
NIMBYs and dead-enders can still bellyache all they want. but now #SF and other cities have now entered a new era
Waiting (and Waiting) For the Geary Bus
Congratulations to San Francisco! The city that claims to know how has finally done it: Supervisors recently approved a design to build dedicated bus lanes along Geary Boulevard. That means Muni’s bus...
thefrisc.com
October 10, 2025 at 6:01 PM
i began my transit advocacy ~25 years ago when a few neighbors and embittered merchants had epic meltdowns over improving our Geary bus line thefrisc.com/the-ballad-o...
NIMBYs and dead-enders can still bellyache all they want. but now #SF and other cities have now entered a new era
NIMBYs and dead-enders can still bellyache all they want. but now #SF and other cities have now entered a new era
pretty much yeah
www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...
www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...
September 29, 2025 at 6:34 PM
pretty much yeah
www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...
www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...
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Astonishing how many people can’t tell the difference between “loved debate and free speech” and “carried out an effective PR campaign for specific, previously unpopular ideas”
September 11, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Astonishing how many people can’t tell the difference between “loved debate and free speech” and “carried out an effective PR campaign for specific, previously unpopular ideas”
imagine that
my one public (for now :)) reflection from attending the Abundance 2025 conference last week is that i met a lot of medium-to-mostly-offline people who have a very positive view of what they're trying to accomplish (more housing, more transit, more clean energy, etc)
September 9, 2025 at 7:03 PM
imagine that
GOOD NEWS: California's housing reforms are defanging NIMBYs and their bogus and subjective claims about "aesthetics."
building housing is a lot of things, but it is not cheap. (in fact, if you want it to be cheaper, you have to have more of it.) 1/
building housing is a lot of things, but it is not cheap. (in fact, if you want it to be cheaper, you have to have more of it.) 1/
September 8, 2025 at 3:28 PM
GOOD NEWS: California's housing reforms are defanging NIMBYs and their bogus and subjective claims about "aesthetics."
building housing is a lot of things, but it is not cheap. (in fact, if you want it to be cheaper, you have to have more of it.) 1/
building housing is a lot of things, but it is not cheap. (in fact, if you want it to be cheaper, you have to have more of it.) 1/
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Lighting buildings and gardens during the Golden Hour (or Magic Hour) of early evening make a place even more magical for photographers & cinematographers, but also makes for enchanting Walk Appeal at close of day while people walk home or to dinner.
August 27, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Lighting buildings and gardens during the Golden Hour (or Magic Hour) of early evening make a place even more magical for photographers & cinematographers, but also makes for enchanting Walk Appeal at close of day while people walk home or to dinner.
#SF politics are kinda cooked. THE WHOLE CITY got to vote on Prop K, and yet people still say that a car cut-through was "taken away without much input from them." mk
August 27, 2025 at 3:58 PM
#SF politics are kinda cooked. THE WHOLE CITY got to vote on Prop K, and yet people still say that a car cut-through was "taken away without much input from them." mk
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Let’s hope the NYT public editor looks into why Times reporters witnessed multiple instances of cash being handed out at the mayor’s events but didn’t write it up til they got beaten on the story by a feisty nonprofit site ….
Apologies …
We are being told the Times no longer has a public editor.
Apologies …
We are being told the Times no longer has a public editor.
August 22, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Let’s hope the NYT public editor looks into why Times reporters witnessed multiple instances of cash being handed out at the mayor’s events but didn’t write it up til they got beaten on the story by a feisty nonprofit site ….
Apologies …
We are being told the Times no longer has a public editor.
Apologies …
We are being told the Times no longer has a public editor.
why does we have a housing crisis?
some say it's because of greedy developers.
others say it's private equity.
others say it's landlords keeping units vacant.
maybe it's NIMBYs who assert they "want housing done right."
what do you think it is?
www.mercurynews.com/2025/08/13/p...
some say it's because of greedy developers.
others say it's private equity.
others say it's landlords keeping units vacant.
maybe it's NIMBYs who assert they "want housing done right."
what do you think it is?
www.mercurynews.com/2025/08/13/p...
Palo Alto residents push back on proposed El Camino Real apartment project
Residents raise privacy, sunlight, and traffic concerns over proposed apartment building
www.mercurynews.com
August 15, 2025 at 5:49 PM
why does we have a housing crisis?
some say it's because of greedy developers.
others say it's private equity.
others say it's landlords keeping units vacant.
maybe it's NIMBYs who assert they "want housing done right."
what do you think it is?
www.mercurynews.com/2025/08/13/p...
some say it's because of greedy developers.
others say it's private equity.
others say it's landlords keeping units vacant.
maybe it's NIMBYs who assert they "want housing done right."
what do you think it is?
www.mercurynews.com/2025/08/13/p...
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Maybe the Right needs its own Joe Rogan-like figure
August 6, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Maybe the Right needs its own Joe Rogan-like figure
"Before 2020, many of 181 Fremont’s buyers were looking for secondary homes in the city ... Today, most of the building’s buyers are local, upgrading within the neighborhood and purchasing primary residences." sfstandard.com/2025/08/03/s... stop listening to #SF antigrowthers and NIMBYs
San Francisco ultra-luxe condo market heats up downtown after ‘Trump slump’
The current mindset for the city’s condo-buying elite: “The price is no object. Give me the best thing you’ve got.”
sfstandard.com
August 4, 2025 at 7:05 PM
"Before 2020, many of 181 Fremont’s buyers were looking for secondary homes in the city ... Today, most of the building’s buyers are local, upgrading within the neighborhood and purchasing primary residences." sfstandard.com/2025/08/03/s... stop listening to #SF antigrowthers and NIMBYs
yea we can blow this one too
“The president cut your health care so he could build himself a golden ballroom” is a pretty easy message to sell
August 1, 2025 at 5:06 AM
yea we can blow this one too
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✅ PASSED ASSEMBLY LOCAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE: SB 79 by @scottwiener.bsky.social that would end the exclusionary housing policies that have made housing more expensive and transit inaccessible, allowing more people to live within walking distance of quality transit and boosting ridership.
July 17, 2025 at 2:21 AM
✅ PASSED ASSEMBLY LOCAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE: SB 79 by @scottwiener.bsky.social that would end the exclusionary housing policies that have made housing more expensive and transit inaccessible, allowing more people to live within walking distance of quality transit and boosting ridership.
stop listening to NIMBYs that just say no because then you won’t have anything www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/n...
June 8, 2025 at 11:03 PM
stop listening to NIMBYs that just say no because then you won’t have anything www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/n...
just based on this @missionlocal.org list there’s some $5.5 million in public money going into #SF Mission district nonprofits t.co/SwOfMExH3u and everybody knows how this neighborhood continues to struggle. it’s fair to ask what the community is getting in return
https://missionlocal.org/2025/06/sf-nonprofit-budget-cuts-200-million/
t.co
June 5, 2025 at 4:24 PM
just based on this @missionlocal.org list there’s some $5.5 million in public money going into #SF Mission district nonprofits t.co/SwOfMExH3u and everybody knows how this neighborhood continues to struggle. it’s fair to ask what the community is getting in return
birds of a feather 🪶
Enrique Tarrio of the Proud Boys has posted a photo of himself with Trump.
May 12, 2025 at 6:34 PM
birds of a feather 🪶