Logan Bowers

Those of us who are old enough to remember ‘08 were reading about and discussing the housing bubble and coming crash in ‘05.

These things take a long time to work their way through the system. The fact that we’re seeing policy changes from April in July’s statistics is insanely fast (which is bad).

This would open up an amazing new harassment tactic of surreptitiously planting a tree on a property, then reporting the developer to SDCI, forcing a new site plan cycle.

In Seattle, tree advocacy essentially focuses only on preventing development. Activists often come up with "alternative" plans to retain trees that are infeasible (but look nice on paper), would cost dramatically more, and/or reduce the value of a project below what lenders financed.

One of the ways to keep a senile elderly family member from burning the house down by trying to use the kitchen stove, is to distract them with a simple task related to their life skills.

For a real estate developer with dementia, for example, it might be having them plan a fantasy remodel.

Yeah, I mean, they’re good regardless. Symbolism is good! Less a criticism of her, more about the constant partisan hammering on this council by factional partisans when it’s like, historically, who actually passes the proposals that mattered?

Maybe The American Experiment Isn’t Dead Yet Death by a thousand cuts still requires a thousand cuts.

“Trumps is at 18% approval, 70% disapproval on his handling of the Epstein matter. He’s also at 31% approval, 63% disapproval, on the issue of tariffs and on that of inflation—our old friend from the Biden presidency which may well bedevil Trump, too.”

www.thebulwark.com/p/maybe-the-...

There’s a certain irony that AMR’s (good) Comp Plan amendments will likely be largely symbolic since they exceed the EIS, but Nelson, Kettle, and Hollingsworth will pass amendments that add housing and floor area despite years of complaints that they’re all supposedly NIMBYs.

Hannibal Lecter would have voted Harris, Huxtable, Trump.

You sound like you’re libbing out on main. 😆

It’s good to have a modality, if not majority, of politicians be like this.

I was at an industry event with a legislator and before we got into the list of grievances, our lead person was like, “we have a lot of complaints, but also, we have it better than any other state. Our system has problems but it’s still better than everyone else’s.” Folks forget to do that part. 😅

Bias or Just BS? Another blow to CBS News

"Paramount is installing a censor at CBS News with a direct line to the president." - Former CBS News anchorman Dan Rather

Historical parking lots! Can’t make this stuff up.

I think we should have an initiative to revoke the charters of these two governing entities and have the city we actually want.

Sara Nelson says the "majority" of her amendments focus on providing a carrot over a stick, and wants to provide incentives to protect trees and provide more housing.

She's sponsoring amendments put forward by the Complete Communities Coalition.

A graph of manufacturing growth broken down by subsector

America has lost 116k manufacturing jobs over the last year—that's the fastest pace of job loss since the early COVID era and worse than any period from 2011-2019.

Big drops in the transportation (-49k) & electronics (-32k) industries drive most of the decline

This sounds like textbook why it’s a bad idea to invest in your employer and a bad idea to let unaccredited investors invest in a “startup.” There’s plenty of risk of this kind of thing happening!

Even more, the land itself on the large lot is taxed at $47/sf and the smaller lot is taxed at $177/sf

This seems like complete corruption having the richest property owners in King County subsidized by the middle and poorer ones

Like, we have an unprecedented technology shift from Waymo, et al that will remake the built environment. Possibly for the last time.

Now is the time to leverage that change to publicly build the complimentary forms of transit and shift the zoning/regulatory rules to lean in to a better city!

…so more investing in bike lanes
- congestion pricing to encourage the use of Robovans (though unclear how well that would work)

I think leaning into grade-separated, frequent transit is the most important one by far.

Off the top of my head:
- eliminate parking lots (from zoning requirements) which moves everything ~40% closer through density
- grade separated transit becomes _amazing_. Waymo solves the last mile, so invest heavily in all-day sounder to more places
- biking becomes faster than driving…

This one is fun. I really wish Jigar spent more time laying out the optimistic case for autonomous vehicles.

Yes it makes driving less painful—that’s good! Taking more trips enriches lives!

We should embrace this and set policy accordingly to manage the downsides of more trips.

I think Obama is an example of the optimistic case. He was an outsider who was also a competent leader and did get a pretty big thing done (the ACA).

Him, and to a much greater extent Dem Senators, were too institutional, but I think it’s less likely a future outsider would make that mistake.

Harrison Bergeron, but from all sides.

😬 light rail gonna be late

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Perceptive folks in the 2000s could see, and it became obvious in the 2010s, that renewable energy could be way cheaper and provide us more energy than ever before.

Now, it is entirely a regulatory/political issue as to whether we make it easy to build transmission lines and solar, or hard.

I want to try so they my son can live in safer world than I have.

I agree, it doesn’t solve the geometry problem. But we have that problem regardless of FSD. It does that solve the “lots of dead Americans” problem.

They’ve driven 75 million miles, mostly in the 2 years, with passengers and no drivers.