Michael Crenshaw

really feels like housing affordability is one of the most important political issues of our time, affecting nearly every aspect of our lives, and everyday our mainstream political discourse is about whether sour cream is woke or not

Cville, it's a good time to shut the thing down completely

the legend of zelda meme, "its dangerous to go alone take this" but the sword is replaced with Chanterelle mushroom, i think

Photo of my left hand holding an orange, trumpet-shaped mushroom, about the size of a baseball. It's a chanterelle. In the background there's a blue sky peeking through a scots pine forest. The undergrowth is short green and grey patches of plants and mosses.

It's dangerous to go alone, take this

Who was the one?

Photo of a sign on a building that says "Argo Baar"

Gonna continuously reconcile a couple martinis

There's of course Seattle, where progressives came out ahead in every single race. Katie Wilson is on track to shore up close to half the vote against Bruce Harrell. Dionne Foster & Eddie Lin are now favorites to win their races and join the Seattle City Council.

Being in the room and speaking to eliminate parking minimums was something else.
Congrats to Denver City council for repealing parking minimums! #copolitics

I wonder how much revenue Charlottesville has lost by failing to have a functional zoning code.

Yeah I mean it's all bad-faith bullshit and should be treated as such

Denver recently removed a bunch of flex posts because "makes it hard to see businesses"

New housing is a great way to preserve affordable housing

If you were to put bike racks in/around Crozet, where would you suggest?

- Bluebird
- Mudhouse/the Square

- Piedmont Place has one already
- Crozet Market has the worst-placed bike rack I've seen

What kind of bike rack?

ACAC, the one by Grit is far from the door and is in rough shape

Only going to name and shame one locality

But feel justified because I used to live there

Albemarle is large geographically and has over 100K residents

Could use early voting locations north of Route 250 and Crozet area

Currently only 1 location south of I-64

It’s staggering how many people should not be driving due to reduced physical or cognitive ability, but continue to drive because there are no viable alternatives.

Hearing other people's arguments also wasn't particularly enlightening, because when debating, you're in the mode of finding holes in the opponent's arguments.

The benefits came from learning how to make their argument yourself, ideally even better than they could.

My experience with competitive debate was that all the intellectual benefits came either from researching and advocating things you didn't know about or from hanging out and eating shitty food with people you otherwise wouldn't spend time with. Loudly saying stuff you already believe does nothing.

In a fully automated industrial economy, there will still be jobs for fixing and programming robots, which is somehow different from the economy we have today, where engineers make a lot of money and other types of workers don't.

Pardon the language, but fuck no

1) the people carrying luggage suck and should face civil penalties, and 2) some of these folks have mad swag coming off that slide

HOUSING IS HEALTHCARE

This shirt has sparked a lot of good conversations. Today it was with an employee at Food Lion, who said “you can’t be healthy if you don’t have a good home” and “the wealth distribution in this county is making life worse for everyone.”

The lamppost is a historical site

Hey mudhouse, when you gonna get a dang bike rack

Question for the bikers of Crozet. My route is basically just hill top, jarmans gap, and old trail.

Another bit of evidence that new housing supply helps with housing costs

Be like @nat4cville.bsky.social with the helmet on the desk at council meetings

Exactly. They try to call it "balance" but it's really just cowardice and lack of leadership

I didn't know they had sushi there, this is good news

For some tech we should try turning it off and leaving it off.