@hlward Thank you for Part 2, Mr Mayor. I look forward to Part 3. As we plan, we should focus on resilience, dense walkable neighborhoods, infill, a protected bike *network*, and not Big Box drive-to projects like Butler, Celebration.
@StrongTowns#15minutecity
@hlward Thank you for this thread, Mr. Mayor. As we think about climate resilience in our community, I hope we’ll consider some of the ideas generated by an org. called Strong Towns. Things like “road diets,” roundabouts instead of traffic lights, bulb outs, and more.
@StrongTowns
The City of Gainesville should be able to walk and chew gum at the same time. Vegetative trash pick up from hurricane Helene should’ve been a priority and should already have been picked up. All that yard trash is going to become projectiles during the current storm.
@hlward
An update on #HurricaneMilton has been posted. It includes debris management from Hurricane Helene, sandbag availability, special needs registry and more.
https://t.co/o6ZJ9jrrSQ
@GainesvilleGov@hlward Great job team. But little solace to those who are harmed by flying debris still stacked in front yards from Helene. Next year, budget for high-priority fast pick-up post-storms. We live in Florida. This is not a fluke. Be prepared.
Gainesville FL should encourage building infill market-rate condos in the downtown core surface parking lots that sit empty most of the day. Those surface lots resulted from tearing down historic houses and structures. Let new housing take their place now.
@hlward#gainesville
When talking about neighbourhoods, certain people often complain about all the new "condos" replacing historic buildings. In reality, those historic buildings were torn down for parking lots. The new buildings replaced parking lots, not historic ones.
this was my entire masters thesis at berkeley, “the supply and demand of human-scale neighborhoods in america”
the data absolutely supports this. if we don’t build more walkable neighborhoods, the few that we have become luxury items—not because they are any more expensive to build or maintain (the opposite, in fact) but because they are artificially scarce and highly desirable
@hlward Thank you for following up on this storm for us Mr Mayor! 👍Hopefully we will be spared the worst of this one. But I feel terrible for Tallahassee and other areas that will be receiving a more direct hit.
Former UF president Ben Sasse spent over $1.3 million on private catering for lavish dinners, football tailgates, and extravagant social functions in his first year on the job, according to a report from a student news service.
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The University of Florida’s then-president, Ben Sasse, dished out over $1.3 million on private catering for lavish dinners, football tailgates and extravagant social functions — including a holiday party featuring a $38,610 sushi bar.
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Lavish catering under ex-@UF President @BenSasse: $38,610 sushi bar, holiday party that cost nearly $900 per person
Reporting by @GarrettShanley of @FreshTakeFla
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