We're going to move on to the reboot soon. Looking forward to it.

This time for sure! I'm hoping this year will be a little less hectic. lol

Impeccable timing, just watched the twin peaks movie for the first time.

I think back to KB toys and the venture capitalists who were always invested in it’s downfall.

Yus!
Actually arriving Thursday for once.

After the second week of December I’ll have a month off from my classes and I’ll be in more :>

I think that's a major part of how we sleep walked into electing an inherently inward facing fascist government. Decisions lacking self-awareness piled on top of more of those decisions until it's logical conclusion.

It's hard to think of an industry worse about this than healthcare though.

I think a much better model is the original Seattle urban village plan mixed with a broader allowable mix of uses in commercial zones. I actually think we have a major opportunity with our many dilapidated strip malls out east.

TIF districts are too limited and focused, similar to the upzoning that happened through the Albina Community plan, and I could see the argument that TIF would lead to gentrification without anti-displacement measures.

There’s very few occasions where I think equality is better suited than equity, and the distribution of upzoneing and relaxation of zoning policies for residential and mixed-use is one of them.

And that upzoning in one small strip of the city blasts the land values to the moon. Now we often see anti-displacement measures well before projects start(lot of work being done for this at 82nd and Division).

What I think we learn from the Albina community plan (which I think has a lot more to do with gentrification than the yellow line, or really any public transit project, could ever do) is that if you ask only a few neighborhoods to upzone, the ones with the least political capital get the upzone.

The first picture is a letter sent by….yes, THAT HOSPITAL, claiming the character of the neighborhood would be at risk if they chose MLK for the yellow line.

The other three are some preliminary engineering documents.

Oh hey I’m doing research on the Albina community plan for a class. It was so weird going through archive material with public comments about the yellow line. Lemme fetch you my favorite….

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!

AAAAA double the

Good testimony earlier, my professor put the public comments up at random during class and you happened to be the the third to show up. The othered were a great example for all the uninitiated in our class what lobbyist mobilizing looks like. Scripts and all.