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yeah I can confirm this is true, not a new change. makes it easier to file, you only have to go to one site to pay both taxes

cropped tweet: I like you deeply as a friend and I'm going to choose not to even respond to that. *inflates you making you big and round*

you: kustomize build --enable-helm

kustomize:

why'd they have to call it that

not that this doesn't happen at all, but the data don't show rent price changes decoupling from vacancy rates the way you'd expect if landlord market power was the main thing driving prices

supposedly they are closing to getting it integrated with tax filing services like turbotax

the clark county tax evaders are not a particularly sympathetic group to me but it is a rational choice if you want a big house and don’t mind driving a lot

I run into people pretty often in that income range who live in clark county and would take a meaningful hit to their finances if they had to pay oregon and portland taxes plus housing costs but I never hear people in beaverton or hillsboro cite just the multco taxes as a reason not to live here

let me know if you need any help with this!

transit oriented passivhaus social housing built with locally manufactured renewable building materials. makes everyone happy

This is probably not shocking coming from a socialist but IMO the non-profits that steward PCEF would insulate it from constant attack & make it toxic to even come near if they supported dedicating a portion to a big universal social good like public power, social housing, or public transit.

To paraphrase Derek Zoolander: is this a city for ants? We need to think at least three times bigger

So @binnig.bsky.social wins this round of public testimony www.portlandmaps.com/bps/testimon...

Happy Valentines Day to Portland: LUBA just upheld Portland's land use violation levied against the landlord of the ICE building. He now has 31 days to get ICE to stop keeping people there overnight or be fined.

chart of median rent in austin showing it spiking from 1300 in 2020 to 1700 in 2022, then back down to 1300 in 2026

chart of portland asking rents showing three trend lines increasing from around 1500 in 2015 to 1600 in 2024

when you zoom out the trend line in austin, you see that high levels of homebuilding have "just" offset a recent spike in prices and returned rents to pre-pandemic levels. but that's still a pretty big deal -- in lots of cities including portland, rents went up and just never went down!

I really felt represented when we had a transit rider on the transportation committee too

I'm pretty proud of this one

Who's making the Seattle version? 😍

valentine's card: roses are red, the portland metro chamber is angered, one call from you would shiver my timbers

this one didn't make the initial cut because I couldn't figure the rhyme out

if your prior is that we're going to rerun 2018 I think it's not super worrying

this is actually a hard thing to model correctly but looking at other systems that perform better than ours and importing what they do is not necessarily that difficult

valentine's day card: you must be 100 million dollars in unspent portland housing bureau funds because I'm glad I found you

valentine's day card: I love you more than dan ryan loves storefronts

valentine's day card: are you a portland city council president vote? because I want to do it twelve times with you

valentine's day card: I just passed a resolution . . . asking the city administrator to report back on the feasibility of asking you out

valentine's day coming up tomorrow, please use these responsibly

Does anyone who follows me work at Smarsh, and if so, would you mind sending me a DM?

green is going to end up leading it when clark inevitably chickens out

short answer: no

long answer: ODOT has an interest in managing the state highway system, which includes some portland surface streets. with their priorities this has predictable effects

now that’s a great risk management strategy

Transit Costs Study Final Report Transit Costs Project Final Report Go to the PDF version 1. Introduction We have most recently updated this report on 02/11/2023. 1.1 The issue of infrastructure and transportation The idea of ...

background: see section 2.4 of the transit costs project report, which discusses the perverse incentives of how the US manages risk in transit projects transitcosts.com/transit-cost...

FTA project management watch: trimet staff mentioned in the 82nd avenue transit project policy and budget committee hearing that FTA contingency requirements might force them to cut from the project so they can put more money into contingency

yeah. trimet is a transit agency, not a complete streets agency. what are we doing here

Also: future budget problems could result in BAT being siloed and cut 1st, in this majority pavement project. After a historic mobilization and signal of community support. The message could not be clearer that transit riders do not matter.

also can't emphasize enough that we're doing an 82nd avenue project in the first place because of how badly ODOT mismanaged 82nd, and now we're talking about removing BAT lanes near SE powell because of how badly ODOT is mismanaging powell as well. a jurisdictional transfer can't come soon enough

actual leadership from sam desue and trimet on this project would have looked like a better initial design, better data that actually supported the implementation (like a bus reliability projection), and any attempt at all to anticipate ODOT trying to derail the project