I love fir plantations on clearcut
"we plant a tree for every product sold" gotta be one of my favorite greenwashings
(commiserating with sarcasm tone)
crazy that they can build all those towers in mountain lion habitat
dissolve all cities and counties, manage combined planning from Jerry Brown's ranch.
Democrats can do arithmetic.
They could have subtracted the number of "uncommitted" primary voters from the expected Democratic voters and saw that they would lose if they didn't let a Palestinian-American give one (1) speech.
They just preferred locking out the speaker to beating Donald Trump.
it would also be incredible for carbrain cityhating nimbys to stop calling sidewalk gap closure and complete streets "ableist"
an able person can step over broken concrete or off a curb; the massive investment in perfectly-drained 0.5% grades is for people using mobility devices
for fuck sake
I would be happy if it were even possible to make an ideological choice to not drive
it's rural people online seeing people who live in cities talk about how congestion pricing works in London and NYC and thinking about how to get it for themselves, or how to close sidewalk gaps, and then doing what rural people do best:
demanding to have a say in it.
How to be a housing pundit.
cities in america are huge agglomerations of sprawl with arbitrary municipal corporation boundaries within them; every job of every color collar--white, blue, pink--is sprawled throughout them; even government jobs are barely polynodal anymore.
pricing reveals a preference for walkability.
ice cream sales on x-axis / murders on y-axis graph
"Portland built bike lanes at the same time that white flight ended; therefore bike lanes caused gentrification."
That's literally it.
"I don't live in a place where there's anything within walking distance; therefore, people who use the internet to agitate for their city, where I do not live, to build more things within walking distance of each other is classist."
All the more proof that walkable neighborhoods are undersupplied, if the Tech Bus Bros are paying that much to commute that far so that they can walk to a restaurant on their day off!
...the tech bus jobs are in the sprawl. Everything I'm saying hinges on my assumption that you knew that. Sorry :(
There's the glibness of people who just want to drive everywhere and always have a big parking lot
who use the idea of people who have money and the precise disability that they can drive but not to walk
to say that sidewalks and buses are ableist, forgetting all the people who cannot drive.
What about the glibness of people who don't believe that work within a family is gendered and falls upon mom, so building walkable, bikeable, transit-served cities where kids can get places on their own is literally womens liberation
you're right that the regional home prices are based on how well the region's jobs pay
it's the choices people make within the region and the price of those choices that reveal the preference, not Alabama SFR vs Duboce Park bedroom
bruh employment sprawled too
"google bus tech bros" are not taking the google bus to FiDi
they could live a lot closer to work and have a lot more space in santa clara county
In honor of the most famous Maryland-East Bay connection:
vanbuckengland.com/en-us/produc...
(it's john waters. he is the mc at mosswood every year.)
stunt on the garish rich with homegrown californian elegance
www.roberttalbottofficial.com/collections/...
Hear me out: Prop 13 Reporting: the boomers have to justify the savings by cataloging how they reinvested all the savings back into the home to make it habitable to the people they expect to buy it from them for 20x their purchase price
landlord greed and avocado toast
You will choose to:
Experience the world through Ring camera porch pirate compilations
Fear everything
Burn gasoline
Buy a boomer's house for 40x what he paid
Yell at barista
Go to megachurch
Vacation at drought-racked Lake Mudflat
Resent imaginary people who you're told want to take it all from you
This is my crackpot hypothesis about why right-wingers hate that commoners go to college and do foreign travel:
Living in college towns and experiencing cities that are better than ours makes us not want to live in the kind of places that produce consent for right-wing governments
IF
PEOPLE
DID
NOT
WANT
TO
LIVE
IN
WALKABLE
NEIGHBORHOODS
THE
GOVERNMENT
WOULD
NOT
HAVE
HAD
TO
BAN
THEM
the proof is in the pricing
places that allow car-free access to jobs and social opportunities cost so much more than places without car-free access to the same opportunities
the market reveals all preferences except for that; that's just landlord greed and avocado toast
it's not the studies:
it's that we let amateurs sue over them
it's that politicians cut funding so work stops; we start work before the thing is fully funded
it's that we let politicians change the scope mid-project
it's that public works cannot just "send it" and see if it works; it's not software.
Human Shield Planning in the city with the most progressive mayor in the country.
Sad.
Is it a last stab by right-wingers before she comes into office?
"We need to pile poor people along the pollution arterials so they breathe up all the soot before it gets to the rich people behind them."
lmao 496 hours to become a cop in louisiana
96 hours to become a prison guard
You can actually do the thing where you make speakers tell you when they bought their house, for how much, and what their tax bill is.
"how much work it would take"
You would be the first planning commissioner to ever do any work.
"The young are trying to save the old, as well as themselves; the old are trying to kill the young, as well as themselves."
