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I like big buildings and I cannot lie.

[average urbanism enjoyer 🏙🚎🚇🚲🆒 @A_p_walker]

@mattyglesias Maybe they got comfortable after he showed them his "not involved in human trafficking" t-shirt.

[average urbanism enjoyer 🏙🚎🚇🚲🆒 @A_p_walker]

@HowardKushlan Palo Alto in a nutshell

[average urbanism enjoyer 🏙🚎🚇🚲🆒 @A_p_walker]

@realEstateTrent Earthquakes. https://t.co/GJGQNkEOes

[average urbanism enjoyer 🏙🚎🚇🚲🆒 @A_p_walker]

Just called Newsom’s office and left a message encouraging him to sign AB 1633, SB 423, and the other housing bills supported by @cayimby. You should too!

[California YIMBY @cayimby]

Today is a great day to call up the governor and ask him to sign AB 1633, which will end the inappropriate abuse of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) by cities that attempt to block new housing!

[average urbanism enjoyer 🏙🚎🚇🚲🆒 @A_p_walker]

Smoke plume visible to the NW from Byxbee Park in Palo Alto—must be prescribed burn by @CALFIRECZU.

[average urbanism enjoyer 🏙🚎🚇🚲🆒 @A_p_walker]

Thank you to @JoshBeckerSV for voting yes on this!

[average urbanism enjoyer 🏙🚎🚇🚲🆒 @A_p_walker]

@mnolangray The general point is true, but there was actually one case where a project was appealed for being too short (8 stories instead of 38): https://t.co/slngda3Beu

[average urbanism enjoyer 🏙🚎🚇🚲🆒 @A_p_walker]

This is such a depressing microcosm of politics in this era: everyone wants to be the outsider activist “speaking truth to power” and no one wants to actually wield political power and deal with its dilemmas and difficult tradeoffs. Here an SF supervisor actually says it.

[Zach Klein @zachklein]

She went on to say that SF’s political system is broken and after office she intends to pursue reform as an activist on the outside.

[average urbanism enjoyer 🏙🚎🚇🚲🆒 @A_p_walker]

@UrbanLandRent Fair enough. Maybe I am too cynical.

[average urbanism enjoyer 🏙🚎🚇🚲🆒 @A_p_walker]

@CSElmendorf Thank you so much for all of your threads on CA housing law decisions! Really interesting stuff.

[average urbanism enjoyer 🏙🚎🚇🚲🆒 @A_p_walker]

@HowardKushlan Hate to say it, but it is actually really good. Been back there a number of times. Wait can be pretty crazy, though.

[average urbanism enjoyer 🏙🚎🚇🚲🆒 @A_p_walker]

https://t.co/O2WIftOgTK

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@upzone_CA @mnolangray Seattle seems to be an urbanist success story to me (tons of new housing and less crazy housing prices, lots of new transit ridership and construction), but I don’t see many people making that argument. Most urbanists in Seattle seem fairly critical of it.

[average urbanism enjoyer 🏙🚎🚇🚲🆒 @A_p_walker]

Love to see this proposal for a big new housing development in Palo Alto. Hope they are able to get the waivers they need. I will miss the Fish Market a little if this happens, but building new housing is way more important. https://t.co/hzrTXno6AI

[average urbanism enjoyer 🏙🚎🚇🚲🆒 @A_p_walker]

@eean Looking forward to seeing builder’s remedy projects in Atherton.

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@meelar Congrats Dan!

[average urbanism enjoyer 🏙🚎🚇🚲🆒 @A_p_walker]

@nextdoorsv I think there is still work going on, based on walking past it recently. Has been under construction for a long time.

[average urbanism enjoyer 🏙🚎🚇🚲🆒 @A_p_walker]

This is so true. If you don’t build enough new “luxury” housing, you instead get old crummy housing (which should be affordable) at luxury prices. I’ve lived in it in NYC and SF.

[New Liberals @CNLiberalism]

People treat 'affordable' like it's a fixed feature of each apartment or home. Will these new apartments be 'affordable'???

Stop. Affordability is determined by the overall market for housing. You fix the housing crisis by building enormous amounts of housing everywhere.

[average urbanism enjoyer 🏙🚎🚇🚲🆒 @A_p_walker]

@adamjohnsonNYC @dmtrubman It seems very myopic to me to insist that CLEARLY the best thing we can do for transit is eliminate fares and police. I don’t think that’s what actual transit riders want, including POC and low-income people. When you poll them, they want better service! https://t.co/AZh60vukba

[Colin Parent @ColinParent]

Every survey shows that American transit riders prioritize more frequent service over lower or free fares.

You don't even have to follow the lead of European or Asian transit systems, you can just listen to American transit riders themselves. https://t.co/aoAVSAvsPq