All of that stuff is outsourced to volunteers who have no accountability so no wonder it gets shaped by bad faith actors

Oh yeah, it’s building codes, zoning, parking requirements, road design, all of it.

this could apply to the entire traffic "engineering" profession as easily as it does to US fire codes

People somewhat reasonably assume that the rules governing our built environments are built on careful assessment of the best available science and rigorous analysis of tradeoffs but in reality it's like 85% vibes.

Emily, you are so awesome!

Would love to hear what the staff answer to that was!

Great job. Even security screws. Looks official.

Dutch cities had a protruding beam at the front roofline, and a pulley for rope lines to lift furniture up. (But they all seem to use the system seen here now.)

If that's within our lifetime!

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Many of the buildings for the 1915 Exposition were direct copies of 18th C churches then existing in Mexico, and a few copied Spanish prototypes. Most were more elaborate than the Calif missions. The few bldgs built in 1935 were less Churrigueresque.

Put a bright coat of paint on your car

@tomflood.bsky.social made this great one.

Kudos to PBOT's Jennifer Koozer, keeping a straight face and giving cheerful responses while graciously fielding uniformly hostile audience statements.

Ladies and gentlemen, we did it. SB 79 has been signed.

“Don’t take the bait!”

A preliminary injunction hearing may follow later this month and the facts on the ground matter.

If a right wing influencer with a camera is trying to goad you into a fight, there is a reason for that, and the reason is we could lose our legal standing to stop the feds from coming in.

Reminder to please call the governor and ask him to sign SB 79

Aren’t some of the residents on long (lifetime?) contracts? Do they have to buy them out and relocate them (and to where?)

Momentum on our side. I'm guessing they'd have to re-tool and re-engineer to convert back to using HFCs!

And the ”stations” are on the middle of a freeway!

A rider I know says some city agency is removing the round planters in that 30th Ave vicinity that are intended to slow drivers down, perhaps so they can repave the intersection.

I saw nothing innovative in the designs presented so far!

The field with onshore storage tanks that were shot at (from a submarine) during WWII?

So much better than "real" reality.

I hope they're not allowed to have a blank first floor, though. covering it with greenery doesn't help. There need to be doors and windows!

Thank you to @rpa.org and @desegregatect.bsky.social for hosting and putting on a great event. And thanks to @parkingreform.org for organizing the first of hopefully many Shoup awards! It was an honor to be able to present @citizen-cate.bsky.social the individual award!

This is why the Charles Marohn, "gentle density" approach is bullshit and doomed to failure.

The NIMBYs will tell you that they just want gradual densification, *but they are lying to you!*

“Boisterous talking?” At a bar? something must be done.

What is that exception?

And thank you for taking advantage of that. The whole conversation was kind of sweet and heartwarming. I don't have kids, but have a wonderful nephew in town, who I've known since that age. I don't remember being as wise then as you are now, though.