Jes In My Back Yard

Urban observer in LA | Grown in the San Joaquin Valley | @UCLA MURP | Staff @YIMBYAction | @Curling_LA | Opinions, musings, and mistakes are my own.

[Jes In My Back Yard @_jesmcbride]

@mnolangray Connect with our newest YIMBY Action chapter YIMBY Hawaii! https://t.co/FLpBHoiPRJ

[Jes In My Back Yard @_jesmcbride]

@stan_okl @mnolangray Absolutely! We can invite our Eastside Housing for All list if it's a more-the-merrier vibe

[Jes In My Back Yard @_jesmcbride]

@maxdubler I was on the Expo TNP team at LADCP as an intern. There was SO much pressure to not rezone the residential property around the Expo stations. The outreach meetings were awful, w homeowners enraged that anything was changing is their west LA enclaves. True leadership failure

[Jes In My Back Yard @_jesmcbride]

@maxdubler Design your wedding as a big party for your friends, throw out rituals that you don’t care about and invent new ones that resonate, ask friends/family to pitch in with tasks (it’s a joy to be included), have someone to run the show day-of

[Liam Dillon @dillonliam]

More apartments built at one time in Santa Monica than in the last decade? A 15-story high-rise? And the beachfront city might not be able to stop them?

Welcome to the "builder's remedy," a newly popular tactic for developers to bypass city councils https://t.co/GGhdjzkUZj

[Jes In My Back Yard @_jesmcbride]

This is great housing coverage @brittny_mejia @dillonliam Residential patterns are not accidental. We designed them in the past & we can redesign them to create a better future. Excited for the newly launched @YIMBYLatinx chapter to elevate their housing stories too @yimbyaction

[Los Angeles Times @latimes]

In Los Angeles, the overcrowding rate is 11%.

In Pico-Union, it is 40%.

Some 40,000 people live in its 1.33 square miles — a population density that surpasses New York City’s, without a skyscraper in sight. https://t.co/iBwPuwvY3k

[Jes In My Back Yard @_jesmcbride]

@maxdubler Very good news. Congratulations!!!

[Jes In My Back Yard @_jesmcbride]

@mnolangray The YIMBY deck is getting STACKED. Congratulations @mnolangray!

[Jes In My Back Yard @_jesmcbride]

@wafoli LA is totally jac-ed rn

[Jes In My Back Yard @_jesmcbride]

@maxdubler Lego Chic

[Jes In My Back Yard @_jesmcbride]

A real historic preservationist would require St. Francis Wood to rename itself. The OG St. Francis of Assisi taught humans to disregard their earthly possessions and to care for other people, especially those in need, as well as non-human species.

He would not approve.

[YIMBY Law @Yimby_Law]

We're following the California State Historical Resources Commission hearing happening right now, which could potentially protect infamous St Francis Wood neighborhood, a historic "Restrictive Park" from further development.

[Jes In My Back Yard @_jesmcbride]

@mhopson09 I dunno, sounds risky. Then people would be abandoning their cars en masse, not taking up roadway or parking spaces, and using public transportation ALL THE TIME. Wait a sec...🤔 @metrolosangeles

[Jes In My Back Yard @_jesmcbride]

NICE: 2000 South LA residents will receive $150 in monthly transit funds for one year: bus/train fares, on-demand shuttles, and scooter, bike and electric vehicle rentals.
https://t.co/uL9sIGD3kI

[Jes In My Back Yard @_jesmcbride]

What should @LA2050 fund this year? https://t.co/7ElWhJc8PW

[Los Angeles Times @latimes]

“He’s got this air of mystery to him. You never know when he’s going to show up,” said Michael McMahan, 58, who has the puma’s face tattooed on his left shoulder and is one of the mountain lion's most prolific chroniclers.

Read more about P-22:
https://t.co/93TLqLqqPM

[Jes In My Back Yard @_jesmcbride]

@bentonheimsath Manor Rd is so hot rn

[People for Housing OC @HousingOC]

#AB1910 is a grant incentive program for cities to redevelop public golf courses into housing & parks under Surplus Land Act. It goes to Asm Local Gov't Committee 4/27. Sign the petition to show the committee there is support from across CA for this idea! https://t.co/23yOcb7nI9

[Jes In My Back Yard @_jesmcbride]

Me when I started planning school: "I will be a part of designing cities so that everyone can thrive"
Me once I started working as a planner: "I am mostly serving as a tool to shield homeowners from the complications of living in a city"
Keep up the good work @JerusalemDemsas