Sid Kapur

I don't think these people are actually thinking about what they're saying. When they want to buy a home they'll obviously prefer a new home

I guess the assumption is that if democracy works, the city will only spend money on subsidizing historical properties that voters actually care about

I would support something like this combined with no restrictions on historic properties that the city doesn't fund. Requires cities to put their money where their mouth is—if it's worthy of preservation, use public funds to preserve it rather than putting the onus on the owner

lmao

But it would allow microunits, right?
Most modern "SROs", like apodments in Seattle or Common co-living in SF, have kitchens

Does SB840 void this?

I'm still surprised that Qwen weights are available for download in China, so you can run the model locally and ask it questions about Tiananmen Square

Where is this?

Good illustration of why approval voting is good

It's the best weather in Texas! Summer is much less humid and fall/winter/spring are lovely, and you occasionally get some snow

This is incredible

Grand Upright Music, Ltd. v. Warner Bros. Records Inc. - Wikipedia

The rules around sampling are excessive. Since en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_U.... owners of a sample can demand up to 100% of royalties from a song if their song is sampled without preclearance (even if for just a few seconds!)

In contrast these were the 6 yes votes. 3 legislators from the far out parts of LA and the Bay, and 3 from richer parts of SF, Sacramento, and San Diego

These are the districts of the 4/10 members who didn't vote for SB 79 in committee today. 3 of them are from poorer or middle-class parts of LA. The legislators are all nonwhite (Ta, Pacheco, Rubio, Ransom)
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Subtle flex of the PNW's superior building codes

lol that's wild

It's a little funny that "twenty's plenty" was 20 km/h (12.5mph) in the UK but got transliterated to 20mph in the US

Time for Brazil to slap a 40% tariff on iPhones and Macs... oh wait

So in most cases it's just 14 + 60 additional days delay plus search of CHRIS and filling out a form for the Native American Heritage Commission.
Would have been better to only require this if the site is on the CHRIS map...
(idk who lobbied for this requirement)

I would hope that in most cases the tribe doesn't care about the site so there's no need to hire a tribal monitor for groundbreaking? Though you're still required to do an archaeological/tribal cultural resource records search and a Sacred Lands Inventory request regardless of if the tribe responds

It's a new requirement for CEQA-exempt projects in SB130
14 days for city to send a letter to the tribe, 60 days for the tribe to respond, 14 days from receiving response to start the consultation, 45-60 days to finish the consultation
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A lot of Trump's tweets are clearly written by staffers but in Trump case. The 2024 RNC platform was also written in Trump case: www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/20...

yep, "from:urbfuturistdem.bsky.social" works

Nothing in Manhattan?

I think it's actually good to call it a rollback of environmental law. It's good to make readers comfortable with the idea that environmental laws are not sacrosanct/sometimes bad (and that it's okay to say that as a Democrat)

Oh I see you're looking at metro area, not city! Makes sense

Hmm, so the existing exemption has a carveout for historic resources, but this one doesn't?

based

It does seem like this project already fell under one of the CEQA exemption categories, and the city declared it CEQA-exempt. So I think it actually wouldn't make a difference in this case