It’s in a mixed use zoning district that ostensibly allows almost everything except industrial. Functionally, it will sit vacant for a year, property owner will then lease for less money as office, and this neighborhood becomes less walkable and serves nearby residents worse.

This sign shows that #ParkingMandates rule our towns - what is built, what businesses can exist, and how buildings are marketed. This is a recently vacated salon – so exempt from parking req for salons. Office is the only use where this building meets our code’s minimum parking.

Example 32 why Google wants all your data: On iOS if you turn off location services for Google Maps, it used to remember the last location the map was centered on. Now it always defaults you to an IP address location - which Apple is obfuscating. I’m in Tulsa now. 😂

Don’t get me wrong, I applaud the effort. But Cleveland station is still only open from midnight to 7:30am, because that’s when ALL the routes depart/arrive at the station, which all offer exactly ONE train per day. We have so much work to do.

These are connected: Large lot homes cannot be affordable with healthy infrastructure. “CenterPoint and city officials have had years to deal with issues such as precarious trees and to bolster Houston’s infrastructure for an endless future of hurricanes.” https://t.co/EAVhakstHA

And then model that congestion relief ‘benefit’ as decreasing over X years based on historical project time before induced demand brings congestion back to steady state, of course.

Idea: have TTC set economic benefit of congestion relief with actual payment data from Texas managed toll lanes. Benefit = (toll paid / time saved) * (traffic volume in toll lanes / gen purpose lanes) Vs. benefit = AMI equivalent wage * time saved. @JayCrossley @WalkableDFW ?

Our towns will be healthy when we regulate land use not by veto of any group, but by whether any one group finds the addition to our neighborhoods useful.

False analogy and overgeneralization. People seeking efficiency in public land use doesn’t mean those same people want efficiency in private land use. I want freedom. Freedom from #ParkingMandates, neighbor vetos, and using government to steal from the poor and give to the rich.

Small developers, if you have some not lame photos 📷 🎞️ showing in progress or finished small projects I can use for promoting a local small dev learning group, gimme a url or drop them here. Thanks!

Am I the only one fairly annoyed at the Netflix describing the villain from 99 Homes as “a real estate developer”? He was a shady real estate investor and broker that defrauded FM/FM, bought short sales, and evicted people. He is the opposite of a developer who builds homes.

Flummoxed but not surprised that @dartmedia and @RideDCTA don’t have a job board that partners with employers within a 15-minute walk of frequent transit. (Not surprised for TRE because - are there any jobs near them other than T&P / Med Center?) @WalkableDFW @dTXTransitPosts

Now is the time for this discussion in Texas. But because we prefer to follow what California did 50 years ago (taxing and zoning policy) to become more unaffordable, our TxDOT leadership is sticking their head in the sand. Follow and support @FarmAndCity fighting the good fight.

Does this also mean national and state DOT policy will stop pretending that congestion mitigation reduces emissions by increasing VMT?

Volvo: “A Scandinavian Living Room: the EM90” Me: That wouldn’t fit on any Scandinavian streets. 0-100KPH 4.5 seconds, ~3 tons https://t.co/DOmzXxH0qC

Congrats to our youth. Just so you know, I didn’t go back to high school in my 40s, change my name, and play baseball.

Hear me out: if zoning allowed it, you take a HOLOC to split your big home into a duplex while building 1-2 small units in the back. Pay off the HELOC in 5-10 years with rental income. Equity becomes cashflow, affordable housing, and a secure retirement. Zoning is the problem.

Dear Fed: inflation has abated. We can now return to driving our oversized vehicles to stores pushed far away by zoning on debt-subsidized crumbling roads to buy meat subsidized by federal farm money raised in warehouses since the subdivisions we loathe took up all the land.

This is great, but don’t forget: this is car infrastructure. If we didn’t build fast deadly roads to save 3 minutes on people’s commute, you wouldn’t need $25 million to allow people to walk/ride without dying.