Citizenportal is an AI summary of a recorded public meeting it listens to, so it's fairly close to primary source, but it can sometimes get names wrong because it misunderstands pronunciations.

Very much a "trust but verify" source.

There's no single tweak like "remove parking minimums" or "legalize single stair egress" that will allow for the dense traditional mid-rise developments Americans love to see.

We need a comprehensive rewrite of building codes to simplify them, match international peers, and allow traditional devt.

Under Portland's new single-stair laws (which only go to 4 stories, there's a maximum of 4 units per-floor, making that design impossible.

Also there's a 4k sq/ft limit per floor, meaning the city's 5K sq/ft lots can't be built corner-to-corner, even w/o setbacks.

www.portland.gov/ppd/codes-ru...

Outstanding news.

I keep going back to this slide shown to the Sound Transit board this month, showing how "capacity building" means consulting firms, more consulting firms, and more subcontractors.

Just look at this appeal by Providence Park to the Oregon Plumbing Board of Appeals from 2014.

They had to submit bathroom cleaning schedules to try to win the appeal.

www.portlandoregon.gov/bds/appeals/...

take out the marquam and you can unwind the entire east side waterfront freeway. such a huge part of our post-freeway future

The Oregon plumbing code has a thing against trough urinals, so any high capacity restrooms will need a variance...

Reading the replies, I don't think your question has been answered...

They don't have big athletics programs, large endowments, restrictive admissions, or prestigious research labs...

They have something more important: Opportunity.

They're avenues of upward mobility for working class people to cheaply learn trades in their hometowns, and increase their earnings.

Yeah "Abundance" liberals are very clearly in the ideological tradition of Atari Democrats, New Democrats, etc.

Doesn't running cable take considerably more time? Labor is the biggest component of electrician billing.

And when running the cable, you're connecting to the electrical panel, sometimes necessitating upgrade.

This bypasses the electric panel.

That's much cheaper than an electrical panel upgrade.

American residential rooftop systems are overengineered to export onto the grid as if they're mini-power plants, and installed on roofs by professional firms.

Technically none of it is necessary if you have a microinverter and an extension cord. It's just much less power.

But it's so much cheaper.

I am not in the know, but things like single stair tend to be added as amendments to existing omnibus housing bills.

If there's any legislative action on single stair this year, it would probably be that.

The 911 Federal Building AND the BPA building?

Poor Lloyd District.