Jeff Baker

Median small business guy, to be fair. Like 90% of Berkeley small biz guys drive in from Moraga every day.

Some crackhead tried to steal my bike from right in front of me while I was sitting there sipping coffee at a sidewalk cafe. Have at least a little respect.

The assessor has to reassess them annually ... who knows what happened but you can imagine the lack of comps for 5000+ sq.ft. mansions on 1/4 acre lots.

The breakup fee is 12.5% of the current fair market value (not the Prop. 13 value) which would be something like $500k.

I can't find the October 6, 2011 LPC agenda but it would be in there. This house unlike virtually all others on its block has never pulled a permit for anything. This seems like a good candidate for the massive punitive cancellation fee that the Mills Act allows.

This isn't some rando. In 1994 The Dean-Olds axis of council NIMBYs tried to appoint them as Mayor.

If there was a bigger sample I'd want to see the cross of public housing x age. I bet there is quite a bias there.

It lowers the assessed value to imputed rent value.

The precondition of having an OnlyFans bill seems pretty bleak to begin with, no?

What kind of illness do you have to have before it makes sense to gather community input for a year on the topic of whether this corner should be squared off like literally every other corner throughout the entire city?

Shout out to the guy who is apparently tiling the Taj Mahal and has been walking out into his backyard and cutting tiles, one at a time, every couple of minutes, for the last year or so.

There should be hours during which electric saws simply do not work. There should be some baseline number of saw-noise-free hours in every week. We have this technology.

I don't want Sacramento to zone the entire state, but I do want them to establish a no-toppings right to build housing anywhere, that overrides all local rules.

Safeway is Albertsons? Wow.

It feels like we are driving directly into the crisis with the pedal to the floor while screaming 'witness me!'

He's dead last in national polls, isn't he? I don't think there's much danger of it coming to pass.

15 DUIs, still driving: California's failure to take repeat drunk drivers off the road As alcohol-related roadway deaths spike across the state, a CalMatters investigation finds California has some of the weakest DUI laws in the country.

Read about this and the other outrageous ways the California DMV enables deadly driving in the excellent @calmatters.org License to Kill series.

calmatters.org/investigatio...

I guess there's a reason that Berkeley's most outspoken NIMBY commentators are also frequent guests of the Marin Post (and 48 Hills for that matter).

It's from the slide deck of NIMBY group "Beautiful San Pablo" berkeleyneighborhoodscouncil.com/neighborhood...

Ugh. We see this also at North Berkeley BART, where one of the lines of attack was that breaking up the project into buildings with specific purposes is "apartheid".

The Berkeley NIMBYs have really gone off the deep end. Their new definition of "diversity" means you cannot build a building that is all rentals, and small apartments ("GLAs") must be spaced 1760 feet apart. Meanwhile the speaker lives in this SFH surrounded by SFHs. Curious.

How am I meant to square these two surveys.

This data is pretty hard to believe. You have to be willing to believe that a platform Pew survey says was used by 93% of 18-29 adults in 2023 lost 15% of its 2020 reach, while more than doubling their revenues.

Especially considering that it's the road to the e-bike shop.

Comedians are ratio overachievers, for some reason.

The point of a primary election is to find the best candidate for the general. A person who has to spend time pointing out the ambiguity of their status as a nazi is not the best candidate. That is the worst candidate. It isn't a question of adjudicating their actual nazi status.

I dislike it when "inbox zero" sufferers try to force their neuroses on me. Who cares how many open PRs there are on GitHub, or how old they are?

I also like Google image search for this purpose, but in this case clicking through to the 2-year-old result does not reveal any correspondence between the document and that image. Best I can tell is that's a link to an old post in a group that also contains this fake image today.

Hoping y'all get your local elections and sportsball finals all wrapped up in the next couple of days.

I assume that scientists have still not determined why the ancients put walkways on the East Lawn.