Sam

🏳️‍🌈Walkable Urbanism 🌳 Transit Nerd 🚈 Sustainability Sustains Jobs 👷‍♀️ Progressive Capitalist 🏙 Safe Streets 🚲

[Sam @samwell224]

Oh boy. @StrongTowns, Clermont FL says “suburban sprawl is making us RICH!”

[Sam @samwell224]

@FreeStackWriter @grok @acnewsitics It is fascinating to watch a MAGA read a tweet, use AI to fact check it, read that response, yet somehow alter that response inside their head to mean the complete opposite of what Grok stated.

[Sam @samwell224]

@Mr_Kustom How gullible could you possible be? You’re literally the guy believing anything he reads in the internet.

[Sam @samwell224]

@Reniec7 You’re awfully gullible and follow outright con artists, don’t you?

[Sam @samwell224]

I’m chock full of ideas for a new political party if @JohnMorganESQ wants to offer something better than tweaks to the Rs and Ds’ platforms

[Sam @samwell224]

FPTP→RCV
Campaign finance reform
Independent redistricting commissions
Ad valorem→LVT
Sales taxes→VAT
Corporate tax ↓
Highway congestion pricing
Complete streets
Gas tax→VMT tax
Euclidean zoning→Form-based codes
Universal healthcare

[John Morgan @JohnMorganESQ]

I am forming a new political party for those of us stuck in the middle.

Our two party system is broken due to Gerrymandering and divisive issues… both sides.

No labels is not an option. Everyone wants a team or tribe.

Ron Myers is my lawyer drafting the paperwork.

Stay tuned. #ForThePeople

[Sam @samwell224]

@CMXCinemas I’m guessing our CMX in Downtown Orlando is closed since the website has no showtimes and if you call they say “these are showtimes for today, February 24…”

[Sam @samwell224]

After more than a decade of advocating for safer streets in Orlando, I’ve stopped being shocked at people like ⁦@byRyanGillespie⁩ victim blaming and completely missing the true underlying cause of our dangerous roadways https://t.co/Dy9AEQS0SU

[Sam @samwell224]

For 10 years I’ve been arguing Central Florida’s leaders need to incentivize the development of as much housing as possible to keep prices affordable

Our local Democrats haven’t listened and just sat idly by while housing prices have jumped through the roof

[Nick Gerli @nickgerli1]

The Austin, TX rental market is collapsing before our eyes.

With the median apartment rent dropping 15% over the last 2+ years.

The vacancies have skyrocketed. Rental concessions are everywhere.

Rents are now only 9.8% higher than pre-pandemic. Meaning that many Austin landlords are losing money, as property taxes, insurance, and interest costs are way higher.

(This is a harsh lesson on the boom/bust cycle in real estate for many developers and investors who bought into Austin during the boom. Read more below to see how this happened.)

[Sam @samwell224]

@obiknoke Epcot seems like a clear pick, but I could hang out in Diagon Alley admiring the “buildings” all day

[Sam @samwell224]

@jewstein3000 So says the ostrich with its head in the sand. You’re an unserious person who doesn’t care about people or facts.

[Sam @samwell224]

Willing to bet most of these kiddos use a car as their primary mode of transportation

[Climate Defiance @ClimateDefiance]

UPDATE: We shut down the luncheon honoring fracking enthusiast @mattyglesias.

A third-rate "thought leader," this Harvard half-wit is ready and willing to incinerate his own child in the name of being "provocative."

🧵

[Sam @samwell224]

@nisfrome @Augustus__J @YIMBYLAND My argument is that you’re going to build intrinsic value in your home by diversifying and elevating the community you’re in. Adding new housing, especially of non-SFH types, is going to prevent a supply issue from creating a housing bubble (which, long term, isn’t good for you)

[Sam @samwell224]

@nisfrome @Augustus__J @YIMBYLAND It reality, a YIMBY utopia will never occur. It’s a counter to a pendulum that’s been pulled entirely in one direction

The practical reality is going to be scenarios like $400k townhouses and a handful of $1800 apartments in neighborhoods of otherwise only $800k houses

[Sam @samwell224]

@Supreme____Beef Over the course of nearly a century now, the federal and state and local governments social engineered Americans into car dependency

“They social engineered us so well we shouldn’t ever push back” is just an argument of the defeated

[Sam @samwell224]

@tylernewcomb_ Based on the min. wage for theme park workers here right now, it would be about 2.5% of your daily earnings to take public transportation to work and back

On average, Americans spend 16% of income on transportation. Free fares isn’t solving a real problem. It’s defunding transit

[Sam @samwell224]

@tylernewcomb_ Time is money — even when you’re poor. I cannot imagine the costs parents incur for childcare just to cover their travel times

In the Orlando area, some theme park workers spend HOURS commuting by bus. That’s a huge cost to them that has nothing to do with fares

[Sam @samwell224]

@tylernewcomb_ I would absolutely rather pay $2 for a frequent bus going quickly to my destination than ride a free bus that comes once an hour and sits in traffic

[Sam @samwell224]

@WSAZnews @wvdemocrats New to public records refusals? You’re going to need to file a lawsuit and you should already be in that process

It’s one of those expenses of running a newspaper that covers a shady government