In Massachusetts, more than half of all single-family zoned land requires at least 40,000 square feet to build a single home, about the same size as an NFL field.
“There are people like us in every neighborhood and every downtown. All of these projects dance on a knife’s edge. All of them do. If you made it slightly easier, you might trip someone over into saying, ‘I’m doing this,’ versus not doing it.” @bow_market
Regular reminder that live artists using Ticketmaster are allowed to stop resale above face value. It's their choice, and was true of Taylor Swift (among others).
Very few do it (Noah Kahan, Billie Eilish notable exceptions)
Opposition to bike lanes rests on one or both of the following grievances:
🚘 Fast car traffic is more important than a safe street.
🚘 Car parking right in front of a destination is more important than a safe street.
People on here will really be like "you believe in Abundance? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, a Green New Deal" and then not think at all about the many legal and procedural constraints criticized in Abundance that would make a Green New Deal impossible to implement
Crossword mania is sweeping the nation and wrecking homes.
In Cleveland, women are leaving their husbands because men are spending all their time hunched over the puzzles.
@mbta driver of 455 bus 3109 drove out of wonderland while someone knocked on the door to board - multiple passengers told him someone was knocking, and someone even commented on how cold out it is but he callously said “there are plenty of busses” - the bus comes once an hour
Very confusing as a guy with my intersection of interests that zoning litigation for Milton the town and also Hurricane Milton are concurrently dominating my feed
@JonLeslieNH @LauraTelerski@KellyAyotte Many people in Greater Boston don’t have cars and can’t get to Nashua to spend their money without renting a car for the day. Give them a way and they will go. Check out the data on the $10 mbta weekend pass.
@DFS_KyleXY@OnlyInBOS This unit is in Cambridge, a city Wu has no political jurisdiction over. Both are politicians in their first term, curious how have they caused the decade long real estate trends in MA?