Charlie J. Nieto

San Diego Native 🏝 Pacific Beach Town Council President 🐬 PB Planning Group Vice Chair 🏘 SDSU Alum 🏛 Designer 💻 Community Activist 🌐

[Charlie J. Nieto @CharlieJNieto]

@GreenLeapFwd My first guess is that AI is responsible here. Overly enthusiastic sentences and the creative writing choices used in a document like this are key indicators of generative AI tools.

[Coby @Cobylefko]

Unbeatable city building and tourism strategy:

Create beautiful architecture, develop a strong cafe culture, and plant tree lined streets everywhere

[Jan Sramek 🇺🇲 🌁 ⛰️ @jansramek]

1/ 🇺🇸 Today, @CAForever submitted detailed plans for the next great American city, an hour north of Silicon Valley, including: Solano Foundry, America’s largest manufacturing park, Solano Shipyard, our largest shipyard, and walkable neighborhoods for 400,000 Californians.

[Rotimi Adeoye @_rotimia]

I refuse to accept that America cannot have this.

[Micah Springut @mspringut]

How the hell do you do this to a building?!

Not technically a crime against humanity, but it ought to be.

[The Aesthetic City @Aesthetic_City]

Solve the housing crisis? Build cities filled with these!

Step 1: Take some field somewhere
Step 2: Create a grid street plan, with parks integrated like in Savannah, GA
Step 3: Fill the grid with these buildings
Step 4: Profit

Left: Nils Freckeus
Right: Treese Architekten.

[Fumo_and_Transit San Diego @Fumo_Foamer_SD]

Purple line meeting last night. About rapid 688 and the Purple line, a thread.
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[Charlie J. Nieto @CharlieJNieto]

Pacific Beach Classic Car Show motoring back to Garnet Avenue on Aug. 10 hosted by the PB Town Council! https://t.co/0ZHrRBTnC0

[Charlie J. Nieto @CharlieJNieto]

@aripounaki As someone working to gather community input in the local CIP process, I think this definitely rings true. Even when community-driven projects make it through, they're often surpassed by something never heard of before and seemingly improvised to meet funding criterion.

[Charlie J. Nieto @CharlieJNieto]

The old California Theater building in the center of downtown San Diego. Has sat abandoned for nearly 40 years and we've spent nearly half that time arguing about what to do with it.

[Midwest Antiquarian @Eric_Erins]

We can just do this by the way. We can salvage old buildings

[kira 👾 @kirawontmiss]

we should start doing this in america

[Jacob Peters @ArchiJake]

The answer to your question of "why does that one side street have so much retail?" is always "it used to have a streetcar"

[City of San Diego @CityofSanDiego]

This is a look at the preferred design concept for the #OceanBeach Pier Renewal project. These renderings are the result of more than a year of community engagement and showcase key elements from that feedback. To learn more & provide your feedback, visit https://t.co/HoCyTnPVv7.

[RideSD @ride_sd]

We used to have a Trolley to Balboa Park

Park Blvd 1915 vs Today

[RideSD @ride_sd]

Trolley to the beach (green) and aerial gondola from fashion valley to Hillcrest (orange)!

Thoughts on this new draft SANDAG plan?

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

"If we revive the street grid and start to undo decades of arbitrary zoning rules, American city planning might finally get back on track," @mnolangray writes: https://t.co/CHebBRMKzd

[Charlie J. Nieto @CharlieJNieto]

@the_transit_guy San Diego!

[Urban Cycling Institute 🚲  @fietsprofessor]

'#Siri: please give me a visual metaphor for the status of cycling infrastructure in the United States'

Yes, that is an actual bike path.
Yes, those are actually 8 protected lanes for driving.
— Lakeshore Drive, #Chicago

[Fascinating @fasc1nate]

Elephants play in the rain at the San Diego Zoo.