kent rasmussen

city council member of the best little city on Earth

[kent rasmussen @kentIDGC]

@UrbanCourtyard @BradN_Utd @erikfinman Ok cool. Thank you for the detailed response. Some tradeoffs (maybe more evident for smallish cities) to consider it seems but definitely some benefits to this approach.

[kent rasmussen @kentIDGC]

@UrbanCourtyard @BradN_Utd @erikfinman What/who is the “master entity?”
What stops a developer from buying multiple parcels?

If the zoning is in place from the outset (driving up initial parcel value), how does a “master entity” maximize return by just building infrastructure?

[kent rasmussen @kentIDGC]

@jasonc_nc Gotta be an abnormal day there with all that sun and blue sky. 👍

[kent rasmussen @kentIDGC]

@xwanyex So is free parking.

[kent rasmussen @kentIDGC]

@jasonc_nc @UrbanCourtyard Thank you for the lengthy, helpful response. One can still learn on X when you can weed out trash. Really good perspective.

[kent rasmussen @kentIDGC]

@UrbanCourtyard @jasonc_nc Very cool. 🍻

[kent rasmussen @kentIDGC]

@jasonc_nc @UrbanCourtyard Just a small town muni pol here, and I think I get your point. I’m likely wrong here so correct me if so: does your approach lower flexibility/density in terms how smallish parcels can be developed? 👍 to your point, but curious about how it may impact economics to developers.

[kent rasmussen @kentIDGC]

@xwanyex As if density is the ONLY determinant of financial health. It is a rather key ingredient, but plenty of other things can outweigh. C’mon man

[kent rasmussen @kentIDGC]

@jbarro @johnarnold More importantly, generally lots less wine is being consumed overall.

[kent rasmussen @kentIDGC]

@jbarro @johnarnold 👍
In the biz on retail side…. Things have changed. Oaked chards still big, but shrinking as preferences shift to unoaked, but much bigger shift to Sauvignon Blanc.

[kent rasmussen @kentIDGC]

@moralesforboise @tucker_id Showing my age…..friend had original Mac and spent hours on this thing

[kent rasmussen @kentIDGC]

@rustneversleepz @matthewgburgess @ryankatzrosene If scicomm had been cleaned up in the first place, I don’t think we’d be here.

[kent rasmussen @kentIDGC]

@rustneversleepz @matthewgburgess @ryankatzrosene Yes, and we should continue to expect better in scicomm. It was far too easy this week for skeptics to celebrate 8.5 retirement because the emissions trajectory was bogus. So now we have a new problem which is basically “see! CC is a hoax!” which ofc is not the correct read.

[Danny Deraney @DannyDeraney]

Every year, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring.

They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died.

France also gave us this land as American soil. #MemorialDayWeekend

[kent rasmussen @kentIDGC]

@CColose @mattyglesias Scicomm is not for people paying attention, it’s for people *not* paying attention.

[kent rasmussen @kentIDGC]

@CColose @mattyglesias Yes I read his post and think both of you are glossing over the scicomm failure. You yourself may not have misinformed, but journalism did, and very few stood up to say “this piece is flawed in its depiction of what RCP 8.5 is & needs to be corrected.”

[kent rasmussen @kentIDGC]

@CColose @mattyglesias “For people paying attention.” That is no excuse to misinform the public via mass media.

I think it’s a really bad scicomm failure supported by many scientists unwilling to clear the air for the masses.

[kent rasmussen @kentIDGC]

@Weather_West @joeszaka As a person holding an elected position (albeit a very small position), I would hope this failure is taken more seriously as a learning to help restore confidence in political & scientific leadership.

[kent rasmussen @kentIDGC]

@Weather_West @joeszaka Yet there never should have been confusion, but years later, here we are.  I blame prominent scientists that almost never corrected scicomm about the implausibility of 8.5 as study after study was presented in media that it was a realistic possibility