#Zoning

1/ It's Election Day.Polls are open from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m., but about 25% of the state's 2.3 million voters already had voted by midday Monday. State officials expect
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Instead of criticizing something you know nothing about, why not take the time to learn? So, story time.... When I worked at The Tidewater News in Virginia a few years
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A week ago my shitty hands hand slipped while soldering a mesh radio board, irrecoverably ruining it, and I'm STILL fucking beating myself up about it and thinking about how
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A few thoughts on the House Republican arguing that the Fed shouldn’t incorporate climate into stress tests. /1 Industry sees the writing on the wall. It’s obvious that "safety and
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.@cayimby is having a zoom talk with @Jason_Elliott who is Gavin Newsom's top advisor on housing and homelessness. They are talking about the budget followed by a Q and A.
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1/ The elephant in the room, as it were, with National's flawed plan to make councils "free up land" is that it does nothing to control land-banking. 2/ Land-bankers own
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The Governors Highway Safety Association doesn’t like being unmasked as an organization that accepts a lot of money from the automakers and auto insurance industry, then questioned as to why
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Hypothesis: late-modernist progressivish neoliberalism a la Obama is actually the best philosophy of governance possible today. Anything better for the population will be rejected, anything more popular will be worse.
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so I did a TikTok about this recently but not a thread. Are y'all familiar with the machinations of the Default Mode Network (DMN) and the Task Positive Network (TPN)
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This article is atrocious.https://slate.com/business/2020/12/cities-luxury-apartments-condos-pandemic.html It contains a lot of broad statements with no actual support. There's no evidence that people are leaving cities en masse. Vacanc
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After the 9-11 terror attacks, Muslims have spent 20 years condemning violent acts done by extremists they've never met. It's never enough. Our loyalty and patriotism is still held as
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Cities evolve over time. And it’s not just random. A city’s evolution is guided by its DNA, made up of its policies, bylaws, regs, standards, etc. It takes time, but
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Thread coming. 1/18https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/barricades-let-urban-inequality-fester/613312/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share There have been quite a few conservatives lately saying they
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Even before the the pandemic, renter households were already struggling. #harvardhousingreport Homeowners of color have been disproportionately impacted by the negative impacts of the pandemic. #harvardhousingreport Home sales surged after
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The first draft for @CvilleCityHall 's new Affordable Housing Plan from @CvillePlans is posted here https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cOMYb4UiWgh1xexpcQ_EfduP3sDS5nDp/view (133 pages) There's a change here. This will not serve as the
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A major reason that a lot of people are unhappy (that people don't talk about enough) is that our society has made housing about 6 times more expensive than it
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