St. Paul is lit right now!

The Driftless Area is awesome, and little known outside the Upper Midwest. Lots of extremely charming towns around there and great hiking.

Oh, you mean this density gradient isn't just a natural outgrowth of urban land economics?

The glitching Weather Channel widget on my phone just gave me a jump scare.

Forecast: End Times

There's a lot about this paper that's eyebrow-raising at best. I could do a longer thread but I'll just point out this paragraph where they bizarrely seem to treat average household sizes (dwelling units per population is just the inverse of that) as a direct measure of "supply constraints." Huh?

The @strongtowns.org suburban Growth Ponzi Scheme as it finds its expression in a run-of-the-mill set of local news headlines.

(from last week's Sarasota News Leader)

Great summary from @knightengale.bsky.social of why parking reform matters. Always use storytelling when advocating on parking (or any land-use) policy. Make the harms *real* for people.

This is a Dallas business that would have had to make its street crappier in order to open up. Now it doesn't.

My go-to example here is Santa Monica. Ocean, mountains, 75° much of the year, basically paradise on Earth. Tons of people would love to live there who can't. I highly doubt that any amount of upzoning in Santa Monica will lead to meaningfully affordable rents in Santa Monica.