Ted Lott

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[Ted Lott @TedLott]

I disapprove of the form you make, but I will fight to the death your right to make it... #citybuilding

[Ted Lott @TedLott]

LOLCARS

[Goofies Of Chicago @Chicago_Goofies]

Serious question: What happens when an ambulance or fire truck can’t get through because the street has been narrowed down to a single lane for bike infrastructure?

Look at this mess.

Who thought this was a good idea?

[Ted Lott @TedLott]

#LOLTESTSTOPBEARS

[Walter @culturecanceler]

hear me out--what if we moved the bears stadium DIRECTLY next to halas hall on state owned land

[Ted Lott @TedLott]

Supply matters…

[California YIMBY @cayimby]

San Diego built more apartments per person than any CA metro last year—and rents fell 2.2%, dropping the city from 5th to 12th priciest nationally.

[Ted Lott @TedLott]

This RT is an endorsement...

[Lemmings 2: The Tribes @lemmingstribes]

Municipal consolidation is like a #1 civil reform issue in the United States. It Has To Happen.

[Pizza @number_pizza111]

Just ate ice cream from a land grant university and I Get It Now. This is literally the entire point of America. No clue why we do all that other stuff.

[Ted Lott @TedLott]

this RT is an endorsement...

[Geoff Manaugh @geoffmanaugh]

Build a Bigger Manhattan: “There is a way to help tackle both [housing and climate change] in one bold policy stroke: expand Manhattan Island into the harbor... New York was once a city of big projects...” https://t.co/TmVtdzMatg

[Ted Lott @TedLott]

Every day of my life...

[Honolulu Blues @HonoluluBlues_]

It seems there is a hot debate afoot

Have you ever called the Pistons ‘The Stones’

[Ted Lott @TedLott]

This is a critical historical document. God bless you, Stanley Tigerman.

[Lynn Becker @LynnBecker]

Falling down a rabbit hole researching a big empty building on Michigan Avenue, I stumbled across this absolutely fabulous 1994 Reader piece by Cate Plys where she asks Chicago architects which building they would blow up.

A fantastic read. Check it out.
https://t.co/xeGjadoTA6

[Ted Lott @TedLott]

Same

[Gritty @GrittyNHL]

i fear i have become more powerful

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This RT is an endorsement

[Allison @ear2thepavement]

We should create a 21st-century civilian conservation corps to build these green medians down the middle of every American stroad. We should then run streetcars down them, densify the surrounding commercial offerings, and add social housing with courtyards.

[Wally Nowinski @Nowooski]

Detroit used to have a municipal civics curriculum in the public schools. Here’s the 1968 textbook.

[Michael Harriot @michaelharriot]

This program is based on the "white genocide" conspiracy that Black South Africans are planning to rise up and kill white property owners

It's impossible to explain how infuriating this story is without telling 1 of the greatest stories in all of Black history.

A thread

[Ted Lott @TedLott]

This RT is an endorsement

[Trevor Acorn 🔰🌹🇺🇸🌎 @trevoracorn]

If we raised the property tax bill on the blue lot to match the others on a $/SF basis, the overall tax bill for the houses/businesses would go down.

People who want to see lower property taxes should be all over this!

[YIMBYLAND @YIMBYLAND]

If you can't build this by-right, on any lot in your city, you still have work to do.

[Danny Deraney @DannyDeraney]

Happy 420 Day.

As always, we celebrate the 53rd anniversary of when Gail & Dale sang "One Toke Over the Line,” on Lawrence Welk.

Neither knew what the song was about. Welk thought the song was a “modern spiritual.”

[Ted Lott @TedLott]

Ride on, #Patriots!

[The Minnesota Star Tribune @StarTribune]

As ridership swells, bill to study expanding passenger rail service out of Twin Cities revived https://t.co/QeFRGMQ6Xx

[Ted Lott @TedLott]

They're hot...

[Streetsblog New York City @StreetsblogNYC]

🚨 72nd Street bike and bus lanes 🚨

Story from @SophLebo coming soon

[Ted Lott @TedLott]

#Detroit needs to stop tearing itself down…

[Alex Alsup @ZugIslander]

Pre-Covid demolitions may have eliminated ~40% of Detroit's rehab-able housing stock:
11,000 of the 20,000 Detroit homes demolished between 2014 - 2019 were in the same exterior condition as 16,500 homes that were vacant in 2019, rehabbed & reoccupied by 2024.

[Ted Lott @TedLott]

This is why we have a #housing problem…

[Trevor Acorn 🔰🌹🇺🇸🌎 @trevoracorn]

Brutal. Code writers need to understand the basics of a cost-benefit analysis.

[Ted Lott @TedLott]

How's that get solved?

#housing #citybuilding

[Ted Lott @TedLott]

Detroit to get innovative in goal for new housing https://t.co/wOfcdIkHg1

"Costs have to go down, and the timelines have to come down, as well, for this to be feasible, and we're all laser-focused on that, per the mayor's directive,"

This is supply & wages not costs...

[Ted Lott @TedLott]

Then if you truly, earnestly want to innovate in a #housing affordability environment: figure out how to raise wages so everyone can afford housing that is brought market to at cost. People need more money to afford the housing we are able to build without subsidies.