Cedar

lawn ducks in the lawn

lawn ducks living on the edge

they are dating :)

"Granger Group, which owns the 122 S. Grand Ave. building, is inviting the public to attend the demolition from viewing areas at 11 a.m. on June 2."

BE THERE
OR
BE SQUARE
www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/l...

So much of my energy in urbanism came from the indisputable facts that it's right, but now I feel like I'm slipping backwards by being driven more emotionally. Like "we will build beautiful monuments and create a joyous atmosphere". That's not objective! What do I do with that other than iconaltry?

I forgot to post this GIF I made, but part of me feels like I'm slipping in effectiveness. Like I used to be so much more driven to esoterically talk about "urbanism is good because math" but now I want to say "you are psychotic if you don't tear up the asphalt and free the dirt"\

AI slop from Hayden yeah this is a sub tweet

Miyazaki, an artist known for his use of detail, being reduced to "ghibli is when yellow tint lol"

I have no idea who Graham Couch is other than something to do with sports, and I'm afraid to look it up at this point.

Sorry for how negative this post is, but Michigan Democrats actively work to make my state worse, every single fucking day. Walking miles home in the cold and the rain because the bus doesn't run past a certain time, on a road with no sidewalks because everything but cars is an afterthought; hatred.

Trying to figure out how to best articulate my feeling on Michigan transit, in a way that both gets my emotions out and actually helps progress. All I feel is hate. A "If you are a dem who isn't actively working for transit, I want you to be as miserable as you make me every day" kind of hate.

Ya we're at the point with Michidems where party endorsements are a negative for me Governor Whitmer I want off your wild ride

Someone Gilchrist-pill me I don't know a single policy of any Dem governor candidates but I already know since he doesn't seem to be the designated party pick he's got something I'd support

A graphic showing taxable value per acre across a slice of Lansing MI. It has the text: LANSING TAXABLE VALUE per ACRE Properties on a North-South line, East of Washington Avenue Properties pay the city taxes, and in return receive infrastructure and services. How much a property pays the city depends on the property's Taxable Value. How much a property costs the city in services and infrastructure scales closely with Area. Taxable Value Per Acre is a strong approximation of what a property pays vs what it receives. Lower values mean a property pays less than the cost of the services and infrastructure it receives. Higher values mean a property pays more than the cost of the services and infrastructure it receives. Currently, Lansing's zoning mandates most of the zoned residential area to only allow low Taxable Value properties with lots of Area. Properties having a low TV/A is fine, in moderation. As the average TV/A goes down, taxes go up to compensate. We need to balance low and high.

I've always wanted to make a graph that visualizes taxable value across the city, but only recently thought to do so with a "slice".

TV/A is a city's version of a job's dollars per hour. Parks and days off don't pay, and that's fine! But we need to balance it with income.

A model train with only the very front in focus

Got my first wider aperture lens I promise I won't abuse it but not do I already want to

If Amtrak is privatized and my train ceases to exist who do I get a refund from

I had my patio door open for an hour earlier today to let in some fresh air and now it's snowing

Primary Every Democrat It’s exhausting to watch poll-tested, donor-beholden congressional Democrats continue to be too old, too cloistered, and too bumbling to do anything as the government burns.

yes newrepublic.com/article/1909...

Obviously the "plant fruit trees along the road so no one ever is hungry" people haven't thought everything through entirely, but I'd like to take that idea and spin it into a"new city beautiful" movement that's mostly there to take lanes off roads

then hearing council members cry "change nothing, all's well".
Do you really think Grand River Assembly is going to survive these tariffs?

In regards to Lansing I now I ramble to people all the time about things like financial solvency, but seriously it's insane seeing a cash strapped city with the highest taxes in the region balance it's entire economy on an industry that HATES us, which is about to tank-

The rear view of Christ Community Church on Capitol and Ionia

I have taken like 30 pictures of this church over the past 2 years to post to Twitter for a fun fact and AWLAYS forget to post them.

Fun fact, the weirdly different lighter brick part of the church nearest to us is older than the church; it was a house eaten up by it.

In this you can see Sheridan Road to Cesar Chavez. There's a giant spike right at Cesar Chavez showing just how valuable dense, old style builds are for Lansing by a huge margin.

A snippet of a graphic showing taxable value per acre

A screenshot of a project I just started. It's still in the ugly "collect data and convert it to pixels" phase but hopefully this should be one of my most useful graphics to date for talking about Lansing: a city wide cross section of taxable values per acre

Frandor

Wow this place fucking sucks like way more than I remember

The only part I'm not super certain on is the Bay City route. I chose this alignment which requires a new connection, a river crossing, and another company, but the approach into BC is much better than the Lake State side of the river.

Map of a potential passenger line from Detroit to Bay City. Existing stations are in Green, Yellow are existing stations that need work, Red (Bay City) has no station, and smaller blue dots are potential additional stops.

Going to start a series where I go over my picks for potential rail lines in detail.
First up is Detroit to Bay City, with Flint and Saginaw as the major new stops.

Friends and I had a WATCH PARTY for the address last year. If not for Rep Dylan having something tonight I wouldn't have even read the sparknotes version until tomorrow.

It's funny how last year I took a day off work for the State of the State address, and this year I've lost so much care for anything Whitmer says that I didn't know about when the address was until like a few days ago

I chose the worst city council meeting to attend man it's ten thousand demo order hearings

In a few months you're gonna miss this, and the cycle will continue

I know I'm weird for it but I'm so excited to file taxes I love filling numbers into boxes and then getting like a grand or so back because I make so little also TurnoTax rot in hell

Taken a little before 6pm. The days are not only getting longer but getting longer faster. There's still a lot of winter ahead of us but we've got a warmer week to enjoy.