Dave Warren

Strategic research @IJ. Alum of @IUONeill, @BrookingsInst, @OhioState, and @UWGB. Hater of bad laws. Also at dave.c.warren on the zuck site. All views my own.

[Dave Warren @davecwarren]

Our starter home was a 1,000 square foot attached townhouse. Which is mostly illegal to build in the city we bought it in. And definitely less than the 2,000 sq ft *minimum* house size required in this Utah jurisdiction!

[Daryl James @RealDarylJames]

My starter home was 1,250 square feet. It was the most I could afford. I would have been a criminal in Utah for being so poor. @Bob_Belden_ @ij

[Dave Warren @davecwarren]

@TwuSamuelsen @arthurdutra @dmtrubman Always the response from those who benefit from protectionism and regulatory capture.

[Dave Warren @davecwarren]

@TwuSamuelsen @arthurdutra @dmtrubman Arthur: “A better way is possible for everyone.”

John: “No thanks.”

[Dave Warren @davecwarren]

@VT_Ben What was the deal with refs blowing those last plays dead before Mendoza took a knee?

[Dave Warren @davecwarren]

@crimsonquarry The Friday night taeks about IU were v bad!

[Dave Warren @davecwarren]

@jmhorp Our kids also attend public school in Arlington , VA at the annual taxpayer funded cost of over $20,000 per kid. We could never afford that on our own.

[Andrew Wimer @andrewwimer]

Flyers all over the country are harassed into having their bags searched. And when DEA agents see large amounts of cash, they seize it without alleging any real crimes. Now, we have extensive footage of an agent at work. You should watch this: https://t.co/awAgsWbYYl

[Dave Warren @davecwarren]

@mvjohnsonpvd @mnolangray I hadn't heard about Portland, so this sent me to google. $178k per unit in-lieu fee!

[Dave Warren @davecwarren]

@mnolangray Tiburon applies IZ to everything 3 units or greater and has a per-unit in-lieu IZ fee of $405,000. And I imagine most builders--if anything is ever built there--go with the fee given the median value of housing there (even attached housing is somewhere around $1.2 million).

[M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray]

A unanimous Supreme Court agrees: the Nollan-Dolan test applies to impact fees/exactions whether they are imposed via legislation or ad hoc project reviews. This isn't as strong of a decision as I would have liked, but a step in the right direction. 🧵 https://t.co/MQ4UPz85Oh

[Kenneth Stahl 🌇 @kookie13]

Not sure I agree with Chris on this one. Sheetz could be huge. 3 justice concurrence by Kavanaugh, including 2 liberals, appears to say that impact fee schedules will survive if they are "reasonable formulas." That would eliminate like...most of them.

[Dave Warren @davecwarren]

@codykirkpatrick Stuff like that must be fun to teach about the next day

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

The NYT covered the jobs report from four different angles, none of which involved the possible benefits of more people getting jobs

[Dan Alban @DanAlban]

WATCH: @CNN covers @IJ cases about #innocent property owners whose property was destroyed by SWAT team raids but weren't repaid for the damage.

Even when police raids are justified, the #TakingsClause requires the gov't pay "just compensation" when it destroys #PrivateProperty.

[CNN @CNN]

If a SWAT team destroys a person's property while responding to a crime they aren't involved with, who pays to cover the damage? As CNN's @jaketapper reports on @TheLeadCNN, the answer might surprise you. Watch:

[Dave Warren @davecwarren]

@GregAlexander8 The land trust, for instance. What a wasted opportunity. Why do something like that if you’re still only going to allow the most expensive types of houses to be built there? I swear people think the only home people can own is a detached single family house.

[Dave Warren @davecwarren]

@GregAlexander8 That whole project makes me so sad. And several other projects!

[Emily Hamilton @ebwhamilton]

Where do we go from here on the bounds of the First Amendment?

Design review is unconstitutional. Vinyl siding is speech.

[Dave Warren @davecwarren]

@crimsonquarry It’s very D*kich-like!

[Gary Winslett 🌐🇺🇸 @GaryWinslett]

Here we have a blighted Pizza Hut in South Burlington. A developer wants to turn it into 30 housing units, commercial space, and a bank. The local review board is saying no. Mind blowing. It’s a perfect encapsulation of this area’s counterproductive politics on development. 1/12

[Dave Warren @davecwarren]

@timgill924 *clip