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mmautner
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Software + economics 🌇 🚶🏽‍♀️🚲🛴🚌🚅 Urban environmentalist, pro-freedom of movement, we are all immigrants. Charge market rate for car parking.
Reporting in from the San Francisco Bay Area!
November 11, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Just sad
“It is more holistically just speaking to the fact that money speaks & if you have enough money you can get what you want effectively,” he said. “I associated that more with national politics & less of local regional neighborhood type endeavors or politics or projects.”
denverite.com/2025/11/10/a...
City changes Alameda road diet plans after backlash (including from an Anschutz)
The city still plans to make other safety improvements.
denverite.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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9 PM on a Saturday night on pedestrianized B Street in San Mateo.

Took Caltrain down to Menlo Park for dinner, their downtown was a ghost town compared to this.
November 10, 2025 at 4:57 PM
If your downtown looked like this then you too would be a “YIMBY”
November 10, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Dead commercial real estate on the region’s most fatal roadway:
November 10, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Geriatric politics
My statement on the funding deal to reopen government, protect federal employees, and vote to protect health care:
November 10, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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Is private equity really the issue, or is it the power of existing homeowners to block construction?
‘This will negatively impact home values’—California parents oppose plan to build affordable housing for teachers
Residents of San Jose cited concerns about the effect new affordable housing would have on home prices.
www.marketwatch.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Don’t be fooled by him. Private equity is a small part of the problem. This is a distraction.

In his own district, regular homeowners fight tooth and nail to block housing. People have held hunger strikes to block homeless shelters and housing for teachers

www.marketwatch.com/story/this-w...
‘This will negatively impact home values’—California parents oppose plan to build affordable housing for teachers
Residents of San Jose cited concerns about the effect new affordable housing would have on home prices.
www.marketwatch.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Crashed a meeting on what to do with the future of a surface parking lot
November 7, 2025 at 3:51 PM
It’s like urbanity was chopped in half
November 7, 2025 at 3:49 PM
🚂 choo choo!
At Terner Fall Colloquium, Buffy Wicks signals that the next big reform for the state legislature is going to condo liability reform and ownership housing units
November 7, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Save your local tree from ivy
November 6, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Wake up sheeple, you don’t need a “work truck” to get paid $$$
November 6, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Real estate, karate, surface parking—pinnacle of humanity
November 6, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Grateful for @samtrans.com & @caltrain.com operators. Without them my household would be compelled to buy, insure, fuel & park a car—something none of my neighbors are aware that they are being spared from—thanks to San Mateo County transit workers!
Where would our city be without its transport workers? They keep London moving and as we’ve seen in recent days, they can be heroes in moments of real adversity.

To every transport worker, from our bus drivers to our station staff: thank you for all you do. You are truly valued.
November 4, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Border Patrol agent Lairmore testifies that he was not injured by the sandwich, but he felt the impact through his ballistic vest.

The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says.

"I could smell the onions and mustard."
November 4, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Don’t be mad, be glad! Grateful for community investment—what’s the alternative?
Happy Monday, folks! I’m currently at San Mateo City Hall, where the council is hearing an item about the Hillsdale Mall redevelopment into a mixed use space with 1.4K new homes, office, and retail.

The house is packed, and there’s an overflow room. As usual: people are mad. 🧵
November 4, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Before descending to campsite
November 4, 2025 at 2:00 AM
So little change
November 4, 2025 at 1:56 AM
November 3, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Tourists having a blast
November 3, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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After 4 years and 2 failed attempts, California is giving up on the idea of ebike subsidies and dumping the money back into electric car subsidies.
November 2, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Ride bikes & picnic
November 2, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Meanwhile if you and your partner make a combined $95K in Silicon Valley, you qualify for low income housing lotteries
November 2, 2025 at 7:58 PM