TucsonWestSideWalks

[TucsonWestSideWalks @SideTucson]

@Tucson_DTM Perhaps more important, car drivers need to be reminded to look out for motorcycles and be aware how much more dangerous a crash is for a motorcyclist. Share the road!

[TucsonWestSideWalks @SideTucson]

Barely 1200 new units per year is not going to get the job done. Tucson leadership needs to get much more aggressive about making it easier for developers to build homes.

[Tucson Planning and Development Services @TucsonPDSD]

2025 was a successful year for development in Tucson. @TucsonPDSD issued 10,502 permits, including 599 new single-family homes, 695 multi-family units, and 101 new commercial buildings.

Read our full Year in Review: https://t.co/t5olpPnU5L

[Caleb Hammer @sircalebhammer]

We allowed developers to build. We didn’t virtue signal with failed “feel good” policies.

Now people can afford to live somewhere.

[TucsonWestSideWalks @SideTucson]

@troyrushton64 @StrongTowns The article notes that most of this activity is private, with no government money involved. Our free market system involves a lot of individual failure, but if it provides an increasing supply of a needed good (housing in this case), that's progress. Good for Detroit!

[TucsonWestSideWalks @SideTucson]

@afalkhatib I've been searching and can't find the actual text of the declaration. Do you have a link? Thanks

[TucsonWestSideWalks @SideTucson]

@TucsonTomorrow He is risen indeed!

[Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib]

If you genuinely care about the people of Gaza, then that means accepting them as a package, including when they say things that bust your narrative and challenge your narrow views. When Gazans tell you Hamas is leading them to hell on a suicidal mission, believe them. When Gazans regularly send out pleas to be saved from a nihilistic Islamist terror organization that is holding 2.3 million Palestinians hostage to a failed ideology and agenda, you should really listen to them.

When you see post after post, video after video, in Arabic of Palestinians telling you how much they despise Hamas and how it is serving them on a silver platter to the most extreme government in Israel’s history, you should adjust your understanding of how Gazans view Hamas and the consequences of the group’s armed resistance. When Hamas engages in a horrendous act of terrorism that unleashes a second Nakba upon Palestinians, even quantitively greater than in 1948, and is about to cause the full re-occupation of the Gaza Strip and the expulsion of large numbers of Palestinians, you really should consider Hamas an existential threat to the Palestinian people in Gaza.

When you observe the disconnect between the Palestinians in Gaza, who are enduring the worst suffering and horror due to Hamas’s control while Western imbeciles and ignorant Arab audiences are cheering on Hamas from the safety of their comfortable lives, you might want to consider amplifying what Palestinians in Gaza actually want and not cosplay or posture with empty slogans and useless forms of rage.

May all who continue to support Hamas’s terrorism and futile actions in Gaza experience the pain, hardship, loss of opportunity, and suffering associated with support for a violent, corrupt organization and ideology that is, in reality, more anti-Palestinian than any Israeli far-right political party could ever dream of being.

[Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib]

If you care about Gaza, grow a spine and address Hamas! Many are understandably reacting to the Israeli decision to halt the entry of all goods and supplies in the Gaza Strip over phase one extension disputes with anger, emotion, and concern for what this means to the fragile ceasefire agreement. There are numerous reasons to be rightfully revolted and repulsed by what amounts to a policy of collective punishment that will ultimately harm civilians, whom Hamas could care less about, as the group has proven it can’t be pressured by any harm or pain inflicted upon the population.

What isn’t understandable and is quite frustrating is that those are the same voices that haven’t said a word about Hamas remaining in power and jeopardizing the entire future of Palestinians in Gaza by its reckless criminality and vile disregard for the Strip. Those outraged don’t seem to understand the difference between humanitarian supplies and commercial goods that were being sold in Hamas-run enterprises to refinance the group’s empty coffers.

Many don’t know how the terror group has imposed taxes on commercial goods, stolen supposedly free humanitarian items and resold them, and siphoned off vast quantities of the fuel going into the coastal enclave. Many are ignorant of how Hamas used supplies coming in for the past two months to stockpile for the next round of war while leaving Palestinian civilians on their own to deal with high prices and no access to resources. Most of the people in Gaza either don’t get the aid or can’t afford to buy the incoming goods.

Those outraged didn’t say a word to condemn Hamas’s goons having the equivalent of a Super Bowl party over the coffins of dead children and their mother, not to mention all the despicable displays of inhumanity that were inevitably going to lead us here and to the likelihood of the war resuming in the near future. Overnight, those complaining seem to have de-activated the Gaza “won” narrative we saw emerging after the ceasefire, and are back to talking about starvation and genocide, with no fundamental understanding of why we’re still stuck in this loop/cycle with no way out.

Understand something: call Netanyahu a war criminal all you want; cry out loud about Israeli actions to the moon and back – but until you have a spine and start doing what you should have done right after October 7, calling out Hamas, the people of Gaza will be stuck in a vicious cycle to which you are a contributor. Want to see the end of the siege on Gaza, the end of the war, the end of violence, and a chance for the Strip to recover, stabilize, and be rejuvenated and reconstructed? Demand that Hamas steps down, de-militarizes, leaves Gaza, and let the Strip fall under transitional Arab and Muslim custodianship until a new, capable Palestinian leadership emerges.

Hamas refused to extend the first phase of the ceasefire agreement, something that would have freed more hostages and Palestinian prisoners, allowed for more negotiations over phase two, permitted possible plans for the Strip’s reconstruction to be finalized, and kept aid and supplies going in during Ramadan.

Otherwise, all you’re doing is collecting likes and shares on social media by talking about Israel’s actions in isolation of Hamas’s role in the unfolding disaster. Give the Palestinians respect and afford them some agency and responsibility. If you care about Gaza, grow a spine and address, call out, condemn, critique, and criticize Hamas.

[Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler]

Requiring establishments that serve alcohol to have on-site parking is pro-DUI policy.

[Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib]

Hamas is an existential threat to the very survival of the Palestinian people in Gaza. One cannot be pro-Palestine without being unequivocally anti-Hamas. Hamas terrorists & supporters anywhere are the enemy of the Palestinian people & prevent progress, freedom, dignity & peace.

[TucsonWestSideWalks @SideTucson]

Over two years later, visited Rocco's Pizzeria new location and there is hope that I was wrong. Rocco's itself was packed with an hour+ wait, and the rest of the building appears to be more than half occupied. Hope for #sunshinemile ? Maybe!

[TucsonWestSideWalks @SideTucson]

Pessimistic about the prospects for #sunshinemile. Story notes slower traffic during construction seemed to help one business. Now with traffic super fast and six lanes separating the two sides of the street, unlikely that a coherent business area will form. Hope I'm wrong

[TucsonWestSideWalks @SideTucson]

Happy Thanksgiving! I am thankful for Tucson and the chance to love in this beautiful place

[TucsonWestSideWalks @SideTucson]

#RIHLive who was the first NIMBY (not in my backyard)?

[TucsonWestSideWalks @SideTucson]

@TucsonTomorrow So many choices. But I would go with La Indita.

[Jenny Schuetz @jenny_schuetz]

Why does NYC (and the US) have a housing shortage? Because neighbors want the rents to be lower AND have more offstreet parking AND 5 layers of discretionary review process with veto points. Um, good luck with that.
https://t.co/aXQ28ZyaoA

[TucsonWestSideWalks @SideTucson]

@kmanguward

[TucsonWestSideWalks @SideTucson]

@TucsonTomorrow I suppose you don't think Die Hard is a Christmas movie either

[Papa Woof und Krampus und Bleaken @woofknight]

Busy, cold night at Stonehenge as we move the stones backwards an hour...

[Strong Towns @StrongTowns]

Parking mandates force businesses to purchase and maintain additional land for car storage. This not only makes it harder for small businesses to open, but also reduces the walkability and pleasantness of a place.