Theo Gordon, Berkeley In My Back Yard

Lead of East Bay YIMBY because it's so much less work than SF YIMBY. Bad opinions are my own, good ones were probably workshopped on YIMBY Slack.

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This weekend got a bit wild.

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@RigelRobinson

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@rrileycooke That was me!

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@WarrenJWells It's almost like meetings at 3:30 on a Tuesday is not accessible to people who have day jobs

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@WarrenJWells Please tell me you heard the 🥥 🌴 comment

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@eean @Kate4Berkeley cHaNgE!!!!!

I subbed in on the rec and parks committee for one of their meetings about this. People were acting like hotels are these evil things. I politely brought up that my family is on the east coast and our lack of hotels makes it harder for families to come visit.

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@eean @Kate4Berkeley Possibly adding hotel space and amenities like coffee shops, etc. Notice that Kate is calling this 'privatization' instead of what it really is, 'opening businesses that will provide nice things for people to come to the marina.'

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@RigelRobinson Congrats! I'm so happy for you!!

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@chrsdcook @I_Heart_Frisco @HeyJoeMaier San Francisco was never 'manhattanized.' it's a meaningless word that you're using because what you're actually advocating for - banning apartments in a city - would sound ridiculous if you actually came out and said it.

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@quendergeer Only off by 4 years and 450km

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@abetterbayarea @sfchronicle @JohnKingSFChron Whoever wrote this tweet should update themselves on the Sierra Club's actual policies for infill housing and GHG reductions.

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@abetterbayarea "The Sierra Club works to reduce greenhouse gas emissions" as long as it doesn't block the fancy views of Telegraph hill dwellers.

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@themapbackwards I definitely know people who think that upstate is even further north than your cropping

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@Sr_Lazarus I used to chair SF YIMBY, I'm currently a lead of East Bay YIMBY. I've worked with coalition partners ranging from tenants rights groups, advocates for the homeless, unions, homeowners, law & order types, etc. Your post is detrimental to our coalition work.

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@WarrenJWells The fire chief is trying to get funding for a Street Trauma Prevention program which would apply the same approach that FDs take to preventing fires to preventing street trauma.

Here's a petition to advocate for that funding: https://t.co/x6vqTmfvGr

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@sf_angry @DannySauter Tourists famously hate car free streets

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@davidshere Same, apparently. I don't think I've ever interacted with them.

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@LeoniaBatlan @Sightline @mercatus @salimfurth @mnolangray @UCLALuskin @cayimby @ShaneDPhillips @NiskanenCenter @aarmlovi @SFyimby @NeverSassyLaura @SonjaTrauss @SFBARFbot @yimbyaction @MarketUrbanism @anniefryman Sure there were white papers and such talking about the benefits of agglomeration but those white papers weren't showing up to council meetings to make public comment and there weren't people knocking on doors to elect pro housing politicians until BARF and then YIMBY came along.

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@LeoniaBatlan @Sightline @mercatus @salimfurth @mnolangray @UCLALuskin @cayimby @ShaneDPhillips @NiskanenCenter @aarmlovi @SFyimby @NeverSassyLaura @SonjaTrauss @SFBARFbot @yimbyaction @MarketUrbanism I'm not familiar with Market Urbanism's history, but the idea of building more in cities has been around since there were cities. What Laura and Sonja and @anniefryman did that was revolutionary was create a *political* movement that became YIMBY.