mark vallianatos

‘spread avenging light over the stradone (avenue) the gardens, amid the old buildings and the new.’

[mark vallianatos @markvalli]

@SustainableTall It’s for buildings where the party wall is in a ‘permanent provisional state’ because the adjacent lot was downzoned or the city built a park there etc. https://t.co/dEk6MJE4Qm

[mark vallianatos @markvalli]

@JMGregorchuk @CohenSite Like this 1920s koreatown block with hundreds of apartments and 300 parking spots in the bottom left garage building ( now self storage however).

[Sam D'Amico @sdamico]

In any event since this blew up, plugging my new site https://t.co/tRFlATtCjP

[mark vallianatos @markvalli]

@UrbanCourtyard Since evidence from (rare) high demand lowrise neighborhoods in North America up zoned to mid-rise show that almost all lots sell and are redeveloped to mid-rise, it wouldn’t take eminent domain. Just upzone + a good form code. (The latter is what has been missing)

[mark vallianatos @markvalli]

@yimbylosangeles 5 - multiple single stair buildings should be allowed to be attached in a line or L shape as long as they front a street.

[mark vallianatos @markvalli]

@mnolangray

[Joe Cohen @CohenSite]

Really great single stair policy recommendations from LCI and AHLA.

Notably, they ask to allow it up to the high-rise height limit due to LA's fire fighting capabilities & ask that safety equivalency be made to double-duplex buildings and large appts

https://t.co/vvSnhn4HFf

[Ben Furnas @bfurnas]

Amazing findings - traffic down not up in the Bronx, Staten Island, and NJ.

“Far from being a policy to benefit Manhattan at the expense of the region, [congestion pricing] has resulted in less traffic overall, even in some places that models predicted it could increase.”

[mark vallianatos @markvalli]

@ChrisByBike Looks like it but not sure what the different variations for boarding were were

[Josh Barro @jbarro]

DC Metro has achieved an 82-85% reduction in subway fare evasion through a combination of taller fare gates and enhanced enforcement. Crime on the system has also fallen to its lowest level in seven years. https://t.co/pi3XwANYcY

[Adam Villani 🇺🇸🇹🇼🇺🇦🇮🇪🇦🇲🇻🇦🇬🇱 @adamnvillani]

I’m at a 99 Ranch Chinese supermarket in Arcadia and there’s a contractor’s office here inside the store, and they specialize in building ADUs.

[mark vallianatos @markvalli]

@ArmandDoma Part of the logic was that regulations would partly expropriate property values and then housing would be bought and controlled by the govt, tenants or co-ops. Ironically this toolkit also said that after community ownership, zoning can be abolished. https://t.co/pevmiBd2wz

[SPUR @SPUR_Urbanist]

One law. 92 projects. Zero cost to the state. Our new brief explores how a CEQA exemption accelerated sustainable transportation projects in California—and what’s next for streamlining safe, affordable, climate-friendly mobility. Read more. https://t.co/KhMV6JOPua

[Rafael H. M. Pereira 🚡 Urban Demographics @UrbanDemog]

New preprint where we propose "Rethinking Congestion as Lost Access"
📑 https://t.co/nmsKC4TAmW Short 🧵!

[California YIMBY @cayimby]

The City of Los Angeles could largely solve its $1 billion budget shortfall by allowing more homes to be built near its transit stations, according to a new report out today from Streets For All, an LA-based safe streets and land use advocacy organization.

[Gersh Kuntzman @GershKuntzman]

Here's a great piece by the @nytimes Upshot desk about the many many ways congestion pricing is improving our city. It should be required reading in the offices of @VickieforNYC, @BobHoldenNYC and others: https://t.co/OAgnkuz2Hs