Ryan Johnson, AICP

Austinite, cyclist, urban designer, former planning commissioner. opinions my own

[Decision Desk HQ @DecisionDeskHQ]

Decision Desk HQ projects Zohran Mamdani to win the New York City Mayor election.

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@mwmoedinger LOL! We’re celebrating down in Austin this weekend too 🥶

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@DgafKITTY @KUTnathan The second paragraph of the story explains "The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) is paying for the boardwalk as compensation for taking several slices of parkland," not the city of austin.

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@katbeee SMART

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@TheATX1 Nice

[The Nation @thenation]

Charlie Kirk was an unrepentant racist, transphobe, homophobe, and misogynist who often wrapped his bigotry in Bible verses because there was no other way to pretend that it was morally correct.
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[🌽🌽 Erica, The White Trash Socialist 🌽🌽™️ @herosnvrdie69]

Hey guys calm down. Don’t politicize the death of the guy who routinely politicized every single death.

[Jorts (and Jean) @JortsTheCat]

“I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational.” -Charlie Kirk
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@KUTnathan Nothing says "reconnecting a community!" quite like building a 21-foot tall wall with a several-hundred-foot wide demilitarized zone adjacent to it.

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@mwmoedinger How do you feel about mirrors/medicine cabinets with integrated lighting in the glass? I often see them at more modern hotels, and they sometimes look great, but sometimes look weird/too tech-y.

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@mwmoedinger Absolutely!

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@mwmoedinger To that end, know your deed restrictions too - the last thing you want is to be ordered to tear a project down right when you’re wrapping construction, because a pesky neighbor sued.

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@timbishop4000 @jamesrambin Hack! Real Austinites™️ still call it Town River.

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@berkie1 Looks great - they struck a nice balance between form and function.

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@TheATX1 Ah, right.. because it would be crazy to have tall buildings downtown, right @austintexasgov !? 🫠

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@mwmoedinger "Hi Bryan!"

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@Dvolni @alexisxrivas @salingergregor @coverbuild Not necessarily comparing, just pointing out that factors other than floor area alone make a big difference. Yeah, open space is one of them for sure - whether its private on your lot/complex, or public nearby.

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@alexisxrivas @salingergregor @Dvolni @coverbuild My 62-year-old ranch house in Austin is 870 sq ft and comfortably fits three bedrooms. An efficient layout goes a long way in making what might seem to be smaller space usable.

[John Thorsson @thorsson_john]

The government was never meant to be run like a company. Its bottom line isn’t profit margins, it’s people.

The notion that the government should be run like a business is an absurd one.