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Flying? DON'T BE RIDICULOUS!
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June 21, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Flying? DON'T BE RIDICULOUS!
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Shocked, shocked to discover that these people were simply concern trolls and contemptible hypocrites all along
Certain activists fought market-rate housing in the Mission, arguing 100% affordable housing was the only option.
2 Mission orgs then proposed 100% affordable housing & the same activists are now fighting it.
It’s never been about “affordable housing.” It’s always been about straight-up NIMBYism.
2 Mission orgs then proposed 100% affordable housing & the same activists are now fighting it.
It’s never been about “affordable housing.” It’s always been about straight-up NIMBYism.
S.F. activists fought for affordable housing in the Mission. Now they’re pumping the brakes
For years, activists in the Mission fought a plan to build market-rate apartments, calling for affordable homes instead. Some of the same activists are now pushing back against an affordable...
www.sfchronicle.com
June 21, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Shocked, shocked to discover that these people were simply concern trolls and contemptible hypocrites all along
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Just dragging the goalposts around in circles like a parade float
If it's market rate, it's just housing for rich people and must be opposed. If it's affordable housing, it's not affordable enough. If it's deeply affordable housing, then "street conditions and neighborhood safety will get worse." Also, what about parking??
Certain activists fought market-rate housing in the Mission, arguing 100% affordable housing was the only option.
2 Mission orgs then proposed 100% affordable housing & the same activists are now fighting it.
It’s never been about “affordable housing.” It’s always been about straight-up NIMBYism.
2 Mission orgs then proposed 100% affordable housing & the same activists are now fighting it.
It’s never been about “affordable housing.” It’s always been about straight-up NIMBYism.
June 21, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Just dragging the goalposts around in circles like a parade float
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I was happy to get the chance to talk about yesterday's Commercial-Broadway public hearing and to say "housing is good" on CBC's The Coast with Amy Bell this afternoon!
www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
www.cbc.ca
June 12, 2025 at 2:57 AM
I was happy to get the chance to talk about yesterday's Commercial-Broadway public hearing and to say "housing is good" on CBC's The Coast with Amy Bell this afternoon!
www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
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This gets to the feeling I get whenever someone tries to slightly scale back a building, as though the naysayers are meaningfully appeased by a 15 storey building than an 18 storey building. It’s an attempt to reason with the unreasonable
This is such a good article
June 11, 2025 at 11:28 PM
This gets to the feeling I get whenever someone tries to slightly scale back a building, as though the naysayers are meaningfully appeased by a 15 storey building than an 18 storey building. It’s an attempt to reason with the unreasonable
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interesting argument - TLDR the claim is that the emissions from concrete production and transportation are wildly overrated
Pedestrian Observations: Meme Weeding: Embodied Carbon pedestrianobservations.com/2025/06/08/m...
Meme Weeding: Embodied Carbon
The greenhouse gases emitted by the production of concrete, called embodied carbon, are occasionally used as a green-NIMBY argument against building new things. A Berlin Green spokesperson coauthor…
pedestrianobservations.com
June 9, 2025 at 2:50 AM
interesting argument - TLDR the claim is that the emissions from concrete production and transportation are wildly overrated
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Whoever builds big, bright apartments with balconies over looking parks instead of car sewers is going to get a lot of votes.
This is a welcome shift.
This is a welcome shift.
A step further, especially on commercial shopping streets, we don't want to artificially incentivize redevelopment there (on the busier street) by those being the sole opportunities for growth displacing treasured businesses. Motivating activity at highest intensity in behind helps this pattern.
June 6, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Whoever builds big, bright apartments with balconies over looking parks instead of car sewers is going to get a lot of votes.
This is a welcome shift.
This is a welcome shift.
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“If more localities…allow for a wide variety of housing types, people who want to trade private space for community amenities would have the choice to do so. And, as more families choose city living, those who prefer a big house in the suburbs will have less competition for existing homes.”
My new column at Governing is on my family's choice to take the convenience of an urban neighborhood over a larger home and yard.
Not everyone wants to raise kids in this environment, but more families should be able to make this choice if they want to: www.governing.com/urban/high-d...
Not everyone wants to raise kids in this environment, but more families should be able to make this choice if they want to: www.governing.com/urban/high-d...
High-Density Housing Is for Families, Too — and We Need More of It
Not everyone who wants to live in a dense walkable neighborhood is able to do so. A morass of regulations stands in the way.
www.governing.com
June 6, 2025 at 12:05 AM
“If more localities…allow for a wide variety of housing types, people who want to trade private space for community amenities would have the choice to do so. And, as more families choose city living, those who prefer a big house in the suburbs will have less competition for existing homes.”
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The thing about institutions that aren't subject to any competitive pressure is that they decay.
It’s shocking to peel back the curtains and see how the decisions are made. A bunch of dudes on a Zoom call, repeating half-understandings to each other and then misunderstanding even those.
June 6, 2025 at 1:33 AM
The thing about institutions that aren't subject to any competitive pressure is that they decay.
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Here in Vancouver we talk about Shaughnessy a lot, where a giant chunk of central land minutes from downtown, is reserved for $5M+ mansions. But the problem is actually a whole lot worse and widespread.
Oh The Urbanity: "Show me a city with a legally protected mansion district near downtown and I'll show you a city that hasn't really taken the housing crisis seriously."
Halifax:
Halifax:
June 4, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Here in Vancouver we talk about Shaughnessy a lot, where a giant chunk of central land minutes from downtown, is reserved for $5M+ mansions. But the problem is actually a whole lot worse and widespread.
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In the years ahead, the province, school board and the city will be part of ribbon cutting events for the final design, rezoning, groundbreaking and completion.
They will congratulate themselves for what they've done.
Politicians will applaud at each other.
23 years for 1 school.
They will congratulate themselves for what they've done.
Politicians will applaud at each other.
23 years for 1 school.
May 28, 2025 at 10:13 PM
In the years ahead, the province, school board and the city will be part of ribbon cutting events for the final design, rezoning, groundbreaking and completion.
They will congratulate themselves for what they've done.
Politicians will applaud at each other.
23 years for 1 school.
They will congratulate themselves for what they've done.
Politicians will applaud at each other.
23 years for 1 school.
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The Vancouver School Board creating a graphic showing how it's going to take 23 years to build a single school for a centrally planned neighbourhood in the heart of B.C.'s biggest city serves as a hilarious indictment of how planning happens here
(credit to @city-duo.bsky.social for flagging)
(credit to @city-duo.bsky.social for flagging)
May 28, 2025 at 10:07 PM
The Vancouver School Board creating a graphic showing how it's going to take 23 years to build a single school for a centrally planned neighbourhood in the heart of B.C.'s biggest city serves as a hilarious indictment of how planning happens here
(credit to @city-duo.bsky.social for flagging)
(credit to @city-duo.bsky.social for flagging)
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housing affordability is one of the few issues where i feel like the median lefty is just wrong in their diagnosis of the problem.
I genuinely don't follow what point is being made here. Vacancies in New York are low because there isn't enough housing! This building is very expensive because ... there isn't enough housing! Where is the tension? www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/r...
May 27, 2025 at 11:43 PM
housing affordability is one of the few issues where i feel like the median lefty is just wrong in their diagnosis of the problem.
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"Rails in the street make a service permanent," -- every urbanist but me circa 2000.
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
Mayor says D.C. Streetcar is going away, ‘next generation streetcar’ is coming
The streetcar that took more than a decade and $200 million to launch will shut down in two more years.
www.washingtonpost.com
May 28, 2025 at 1:30 AM
"Rails in the street make a service permanent," -- every urbanist but me circa 2000.
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
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“The fact that the government has to ignore its rules if it wants to do something important ought to raise the question of why those rules have to be followed the rest of the time.”
The abundance agenda, @jonathanbchait.bsky.social writes, "has set off a schismatic conflict not just over a collection of proposals and the Democratic Party’s direction—but over who should have the standing to direct it."
The Coming Democratic Civil War
A seemingly wonky debate about the “abundance agenda” is really about power.
bit.ly
May 26, 2025 at 8:04 AM
“The fact that the government has to ignore its rules if it wants to do something important ought to raise the question of why those rules have to be followed the rest of the time.”
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We should regulate pollution directly instead of indirectly with land use policy because the latter approach guarantees that polluting land uses will be located exclusively in marginalized communities with less power to block them.
May 25, 2025 at 11:26 PM
We should regulate pollution directly instead of indirectly with land use policy because the latter approach guarantees that polluting land uses will be located exclusively in marginalized communities with less power to block them.
TIL that no one is opposed to more housing.
Pack it up yimbos, mission accomplished I guess?
Pack it up yimbos, mission accomplished I guess?
May 25, 2025 at 11:16 PM
TIL that no one is opposed to more housing.
Pack it up yimbos, mission accomplished I guess?
Pack it up yimbos, mission accomplished I guess?
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“This person is posting here but also feels they get value from posting on the bad place. I know, I’ll be mean to them, that will help get people to leave the bad place”
May 25, 2025 at 10:55 PM
“This person is posting here but also feels they get value from posting on the bad place. I know, I’ll be mean to them, that will help get people to leave the bad place”
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trail improvements: $50
comfort stations: $75
signage: $60
bicycle paths: $45
water quality improvements: $35
parking lots: $10000000
someone please help me budget this my park is dying
comfort stations: $75
signage: $60
bicycle paths: $45
water quality improvements: $35
parking lots: $10000000
someone please help me budget this my park is dying
IS THIS NORMAL? HALF OF THE BUDGET FOR THE CITY'S SECOND-BIGGEST PARK GOES TO PARKING LOTS?
May 24, 2025 at 1:33 PM
trail improvements: $50
comfort stations: $75
signage: $60
bicycle paths: $45
water quality improvements: $35
parking lots: $10000000
someone please help me budget this my park is dying
comfort stations: $75
signage: $60
bicycle paths: $45
water quality improvements: $35
parking lots: $10000000
someone please help me budget this my park is dying
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Vancouver question: what's with rooftop patios not using the whole space? This is a unit at 209 E 7th, the patio could be twice as big but much of the roof is fenced off. Doesn't seem to be an FSR thing, the zone allows exclusion cd1-bylaws.vancouver.ca/CD-1(575).pdf
May 24, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Vancouver question: what's with rooftop patios not using the whole space? This is a unit at 209 E 7th, the patio could be twice as big but much of the roof is fenced off. Doesn't seem to be an FSR thing, the zone allows exclusion cd1-bylaws.vancouver.ca/CD-1(575).pdf
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AI astroturf NIMBYism in your city? It’s more likely than you think
So: the “Protect Bathurst / Dufferin” astroturf campaign run by Summerhill Market had videos of a guy talking about the neighborhood & RapidTO proposal. Real grassroots feel. Took a screenshot & put it into google image search. Guess what?
May 21, 2025 at 3:00 AM
AI astroturf NIMBYism in your city? It’s more likely than you think
JFC now if some asshole is tailgating you and don't pull over, your injury or death is your fault.
A person is injured, the VPD have failed them, "expert lawyers" are misleading the public, and changes to the MVA are pointless unless actually upheld. THREAD 🧵
Cyclist says B.C.’s new cycling law failed him | Watch News Videos Online
Watch Cyclist says B.C.’s new cycling law failed him Video Online, on GlobalNews.ca
globalnews.ca
May 21, 2025 at 3:03 AM
JFC now if some asshole is tailgating you and don't pull over, your injury or death is your fault.
Small units going for more $/sqft than large units represents people valuing location over space. If you want people to not have to make that trade off, then you can't have a system that rations space at each location.
Developers “do whatever they want”?
In a 25-year Toronto boom in which development was hyper-regulated, hyper-constrained and heavily taxed?
Absolutely begging people to think about real estate and planning as a system
www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
In a 25-year Toronto boom in which development was hyper-regulated, hyper-constrained and heavily taxed?
Absolutely begging people to think about real estate and planning as a system
www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
May 21, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Small units going for more $/sqft than large units represents people valuing location over space. If you want people to not have to make that trade off, then you can't have a system that rations space at each location.
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Toronto urban design policy in action: angular plane making buildings ugly and more expensive, to deliver (almost) “human scale” frontage on a Main Street (which the city has chosen to target with new development)
May 20, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Toronto urban design policy in action: angular plane making buildings ugly and more expensive, to deliver (almost) “human scale” frontage on a Main Street (which the city has chosen to target with new development)
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Multiple media organizations have reported on a TEAM press release, trumpeting a study that estimates 34,000 Vancouverites didn't vote in the byelection because of long lineups.
That'd be quite the story if it was true! But is it?
I actually read the report — here's what the estimate is based on.
That'd be quite the story if it was true! But is it?
I actually read the report — here's what the estimate is based on.
TEAM accuses city hall of voter suppression in by-election
A political report suggests that significant voter suppression occurred during this year's Vancouver by-election on April 5.
vancouver.citynews.ca
May 20, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Multiple media organizations have reported on a TEAM press release, trumpeting a study that estimates 34,000 Vancouverites didn't vote in the byelection because of long lineups.
That'd be quite the story if it was true! But is it?
I actually read the report — here's what the estimate is based on.
That'd be quite the story if it was true! But is it?
I actually read the report — here's what the estimate is based on.