Randolph Ruiz

The D Line Extension to Wilshire/La Brea, Wilshire/Fairfax and Wilshire/La Cienega opens...

YouTube video by Mike Diva Japanese Donald Trump Commercialトランプ2016

Pretty sure Rude Dude and Super Kind were created by Mike Diva, who now does some of the vids for SNL (including the Ariana Grande Home Alone parody), but first came to fame with his mock trump ad from 2016 youtu.be/ZbM6WbUw7Bs

Tomorrow (Tuesday) is a big day for SB 79 in Los Angeles!

You can make a big difference by giving comment at the PLUM committee hearing, 2pm at City Hall

Here’s what's being decided:

Assuming std lot (which is unlikely) 50x100=5,000sf x 4.5 FAR =22,500/7=3,214sf footprint + 6 floors. = about 64% lot coverage, assuming there isn’t a site-sized parking podium. I feel more open space would be better given this level of density. Much space will be lost to side/front setbacks

YouTube video by antzilla525 The Academic Debate re: Zoning Reform in High-Cost Regions

By popular demand, I have posted the "The Academic Debate re: Zoning Reform in High-Cost Regions" Ace Attorney spoof video that @dereksagehorn.bsky.social and I made years ago.

Enjoy!

youtu.be/rflVw8SGj8Y

This looks like a job for Dumbarton

Yes, but they’re also council members and supervisors, right? Controlling development = power

All I hear is, “this is ours to control!”

Do not let Elmo see this

a 4ft dudersadt bench made of a pale wood with a unsually shimmery grain pattern (eucalyptus globus). In the background: a similar dark brown bench (stained redwood), a cone, and some tools

Built a bench of out reclaimed eucalyptus wood milled by bayarearedwood.com - hard and heavy as hell (weighs more than an 8ft fir bench). Wet with no finish. Eucalyptus lumber gets a lot of hate - maybe undeserved? We will see how this bench ages

The abandoned downtowns of my youth was a massive policy failure, not something to celebrate or return to. Several generations failed to learn that cities thrive with intensive use and change

Santa Monica is upgrading Broadway bike lanes - concrete curb protection on the way. Construction now from 4th to 9th. (Will extend to 26th)

Huh, you blue it.

The estate once had a spur off of the Pacific Electric Sierra Madre line for Henry Huntington’s private Interurban car

We need to be much more thoughtful about which judges we elect in SF.

Why has this connection never occurred to me?

When they say "millions" here, they mean over $100M!

Together these awards totaled to:

Wilmington Safe Streets: $32M
Skid Row Connectivity Project: $39M
Boyle Heights Connectivity Project: $32M

(it's notable that the motion omits the embarrassing total)

And she still has a driver’s license?

Airbus A400M appears to sit amongst the rolling green hills of central California just above the tree-lined channel of the Salinas River. You can’t see the airstrip from below, so it looks out of place

Never before noticed this airfield at Nacimiento, across the Salinas River from Camp Roberts. Whose Atlas is this?

Don’t think Details Associates got around to that one

Needs tiny brass antlers

Never Again in My Back Yard

Stone rip rap and precast concrete grade crossing panels cover the railroad right of way from the tracks to the property line to prevent encampments

Innovations in hostile architecture. Rip rap area denial in Brookfield Village as seen from Amtrak

In Hayes Valley. Just saw a heavily weathered 1984 StarCraft van with a custom LA Olympics logo tastefully incorporated into the tan and brown striping. I’d Like to think it was Mary Lou Retton at the wheel

I rode the San Joaquin 4 times last year. One of those trips was on a Venture set. I will only go back if there is no other choice

Glad they’re working. Sad they were necessary

Future proofing for freight sounds like a private sector problem

Newark PCC at night at stop on Market street in the rain

Trans America pyramid and Bank of America buildings in the fog at dusk

Meanwhile, in San Francisco

The rail line to the airport is existing save for the last half mile or so. It’s the former SN branch to Woodland. Not saying it’s a great idea or not, but given that the tracks and row are there, it seems less harmful than you’re suggesting

Behind almost every university "financial crisis" is some sort of insider benefitting real estate deal, sometimes not just corrupt but clearly criminal