Often feels to me like some of stuff that was said about protesting at the DNC versus CPAC, with people being scared of the far right.
I wonder if some of the media kowtowing isn't just "I can prove to him I'm one of the good ones."
I wonder if some of the media kowtowing isn't just "I can prove to him I'm one of the good ones."
November 18, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Often feels to me like some of stuff that was said about protesting at the DNC versus CPAC, with people being scared of the far right.
I wonder if some of the media kowtowing isn't just "I can prove to him I'm one of the good ones."
I wonder if some of the media kowtowing isn't just "I can prove to him I'm one of the good ones."
I feel like that's just flat out true of most "leftist" outsider candidates? They may be more or less left flavored but usually it ends up just sounding libertarian talking points.
November 14, 2025 at 8:28 PM
I feel like that's just flat out true of most "leftist" outsider candidates? They may be more or less left flavored but usually it ends up just sounding libertarian talking points.
Usually that's against businesses or pretty small government things (like a building or an event), versus a scatter shot city wide thing.
November 14, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Usually that's against businesses or pretty small government things (like a building or an event), versus a scatter shot city wide thing.
I'm not deep enough in ADA litigation to really have an answer on that, but I know that it's within the norm to file specious cases against the government for similar things and then drop them in exchange for something else.
That's a huge volume of CEQA litigation, for example.
That's a huge volume of CEQA litigation, for example.
November 14, 2025 at 1:50 AM
I'm not deep enough in ADA litigation to really have an answer on that, but I know that it's within the norm to file specious cases against the government for similar things and then drop them in exchange for something else.
That's a huge volume of CEQA litigation, for example.
That's a huge volume of CEQA litigation, for example.
Maybe? Hahn was invoking a lot of this to block theoretical development in her district well before Hopkins was a thing.
Plus you had all the stuff around obscure CEQA challenges to student housing.
Plus you had all the stuff around obscure CEQA challenges to student housing.
November 14, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Maybe? Hahn was invoking a lot of this to block theoretical development in her district well before Hopkins was a thing.
Plus you had all the stuff around obscure CEQA challenges to student housing.
Plus you had all the stuff around obscure CEQA challenges to student housing.
Money. Litigators ask for either a settlement or get attorneys fees, as well as creating a huge and valuable city contract to fix the defects.
November 14, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Money. Litigators ask for either a settlement or get attorneys fees, as well as creating a huge and valuable city contract to fix the defects.
Re: construction labor - something I think a lot of people don't get is that it doesn't matter if your project/contract/whatever uses zero undocumented labor.
We already have a construction labor shortage. A loss of a chunk of that means even more competition and scarcity for the rest.
We already have a construction labor shortage. A loss of a chunk of that means even more competition and scarcity for the rest.
November 14, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Re: construction labor - something I think a lot of people don't get is that it doesn't matter if your project/contract/whatever uses zero undocumented labor.
We already have a construction labor shortage. A loss of a chunk of that means even more competition and scarcity for the rest.
We already have a construction labor shortage. A loss of a chunk of that means even more competition and scarcity for the rest.
Can confirm, Los Gatos got hit with one of these in 2021/2022 - something like 20,000 individual complaints, a lot of which were completely spurious.
November 8, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Can confirm, Los Gatos got hit with one of these in 2021/2022 - something like 20,000 individual complaints, a lot of which were completely spurious.
Wasn't this already required by SB937?
November 6, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Wasn't this already required by SB937?
I mean, the adjacent communities (and places like mountain house) say that's kind of true?
People want homes. This areas a better commute than Tracy.
People want homes. This areas a better commute than Tracy.
October 15, 2025 at 5:17 AM
I mean, the adjacent communities (and places like mountain house) say that's kind of true?
People want homes. This areas a better commute than Tracy.
People want homes. This areas a better commute than Tracy.
30 an acre feels off? It's big enough to pull it off I guess but having spent the better part of a decade doing resi, townhomes have trouble actually hitting 30 unless you net out streets, and anything dense is *a lot* denser.
October 15, 2025 at 2:49 AM
30 an acre feels off? It's big enough to pull it off I guess but having spent the better part of a decade doing resi, townhomes have trouble actually hitting 30 unless you net out streets, and anything dense is *a lot* denser.
Wells Fargo is truly awful, but nothing about this in any way helps Wells Fargo, especially not on a building in default. It's valuation will absolutely crater after something like this.
If anything it's a quiet threat to lenders from the Trump Admin, something they've been doing a lot of.
If anything it's a quiet threat to lenders from the Trump Admin, something they've been doing a lot of.
October 7, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Wells Fargo is truly awful, but nothing about this in any way helps Wells Fargo, especially not on a building in default. It's valuation will absolutely crater after something like this.
If anything it's a quiet threat to lenders from the Trump Admin, something they've been doing a lot of.
If anything it's a quiet threat to lenders from the Trump Admin, something they've been doing a lot of.
You don't understand! what about the views from his house! Monopoly bad that's why we can't allow people to build housing!
September 21, 2025 at 10:44 PM
You don't understand! what about the views from his house! Monopoly bad that's why we can't allow people to build housing!
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First, their arguments generally speak against the safety of single-stair buildings. But…LA’s building code already allows them up to three stories for apartments, and many single-family houses go up to four stories with even fewer protections. So are they saying the existing code is unsafe too…?
September 11, 2025 at 12:42 AM
First, their arguments generally speak against the safety of single-stair buildings. But…LA’s building code already allows them up to three stories for apartments, and many single-family houses go up to four stories with even fewer protections. So are they saying the existing code is unsafe too…?
Agreed with the caveat that there is a need to counter the attitudes in some segments of liberal arts education around "selling out" if you don't only engage in pure academia as a career.
August 10, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Agreed with the caveat that there is a need to counter the attitudes in some segments of liberal arts education around "selling out" if you don't only engage in pure academia as a career.
What was the rationale they put forward?! Didn't have this one on my radar.
August 8, 2025 at 2:10 PM
What was the rationale they put forward?! Didn't have this one on my radar.
The site has a pretty crazy grade change too, I'm not actually sure apartments would work easily? I'd like to see it denser but I think it'd be a serious challenge to get above townhome density.
1.23 acres is large, but, property itself would be fighting.
1.23 acres is large, but, property itself would be fighting.
August 7, 2025 at 3:44 AM
The site has a pretty crazy grade change too, I'm not actually sure apartments would work easily? I'd like to see it denser but I think it'd be a serious challenge to get above townhome density.
1.23 acres is large, but, property itself would be fighting.
1.23 acres is large, but, property itself would be fighting.
This has been through the surplus lands act at least once. No one is building multifamily on the site, and in this day and age it's not clear that would even pencil it there was interest.
August 7, 2025 at 3:39 AM
This has been through the surplus lands act at least once. No one is building multifamily on the site, and in this day and age it's not clear that would even pencil it there was interest.
What is LPE when it's at home? Not an acronym I've run into before.
August 6, 2025 at 11:05 PM
What is LPE when it's at home? Not an acronym I've run into before.
I mean in the world where you can call a cab via Lyft or flywheel it seems like this is a solved problem?
August 6, 2025 at 11:01 PM
I mean in the world where you can call a cab via Lyft or flywheel it seems like this is a solved problem?
Isn't this probably in part because even with the 4% tax on income over $1m, Massachusetts tax rates are some of the lowest of states that charge an income tax?
The only other income tax is just a flat 5%.
The only other income tax is just a flat 5%.
August 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Isn't this probably in part because even with the 4% tax on income over $1m, Massachusetts tax rates are some of the lowest of states that charge an income tax?
The only other income tax is just a flat 5%.
The only other income tax is just a flat 5%.
Eh, if you talk to a lot of left NIMBYs you often get a weird racist hodgepodge about how poor people of color don't like "nice things."
Stuff like this is often less confusion and more just a very loud dog whistle.
Stuff like this is often less confusion and more just a very loud dog whistle.
August 4, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Eh, if you talk to a lot of left NIMBYs you often get a weird racist hodgepodge about how poor people of color don't like "nice things."
Stuff like this is often less confusion and more just a very loud dog whistle.
Stuff like this is often less confusion and more just a very loud dog whistle.