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Chris @chrisbybikes.bsky.social · 21h

I have this thing when I think about new housing in my 'hood, instead of demonizing the new occupants (traffic! parking!) I think what if a kid moves in who becomes my kid's best friend. The other day it happened! We were playing at the park. Turns out, they lived blocks from us in a new duplex.

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Chris @chrisbybikes.bsky.social · 3d

I appreciate the NIMBYs who say the quiet part out loud.

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Jane Natoli 🥑🚲🍍 @wafoli.bsky.social · 5d

It’s funny how people see the the most drastic change to our planning code as the upzoning we are currently discussing when in reality was the *original* 1978 downzoning

A screen shot from PAR with the laziest attempt to show towers (literally just black outlines of rectangles with no bearing on anything) with the following text:

PAR for the Richmonton
for the Richmond
PETITION TO OPPOSE
UPZONING
We oppose Mayor Daniel Lurie's "Family
Zoning" Plan, the most drastic changes ever made to San Francisco's Planning Code and to the Richmond District.

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Chris @chrisbybikes.bsky.social · 5d

Here you go

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Chris @chrisbybikes.bsky.social · 6d

Republicans believe letting the market build housing is “social engineering“ 🤦

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[email protected] @estupi.do · 6d

it's so crazy that the 1986 tax law that created the Low Income Housing Tax Credit also eliminated accelerated depreciation on rental housing and the results were predictably terrible taxfoundation.org/blog/1986-ta...

Did 1986 Tax Reform Hurt Affordable Housing?

The increase in investment costs brought by 1986 tax reform changes to rental housing investment contributed to reduced construction of new multifamily homes. While other factors, such as high rates o...

taxfoundation.org

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Sean Jursnick @seanjurs.bsky.social · 7d

AIA Tennessee Single-Stair Design Competition Finalist:

SEED BLOCK (a prototype for block-scale growth)

proposing a repeatable, flexible, six-story mixed-use protype tailored to grow within Knoxville's typical 50'x100' lot dimensions.

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Chris @chrisbybikes.bsky.social · 8d

Classic car-brained society moments.

Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 9d

I've been on two calls today with fire safety professionals where the topic was the safety of single-stair buildings. On both calls, somebody was driving while on the call – one a firefighter, the other a fire protection engineer.

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 9d

An adult driver angry at a child they hit with their car.

Our car culture summed up in one video.

Robson Fletcher @robsonfletcher.com · 9d

Police in Airdrie, Alberta (just north of Calgary) say this driver hit a 17-year-old girl in a marked crosswalk, got out of the vehicle, and appeared to get upset at the teenager before driving away.

They released this video and are now trying to identify the driver.

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Chris @chrisbybikes.bsky.social · 9d

The problem is the powers that be are so car brained.
Scooter kills person on sidewalk… ban scooters.
kid gets killed on e-bike riding to school (legally) on 50mph road, ban kids on ebikes (actual example from LA Times).
Meanwhile cars just keep on killing.

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Chris @chrisbybikes.bsky.social · 9d

The infrastructure does a good job of limiting that for the most part. But it still can happen. We had a couple on scooters kill an elderly man in one of the only dense walkable neighborhoods in LA. Of course all the focus was on the escooters and non on the lack of safe micromobility infrastructure

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Chris @chrisbybikes.bsky.social · 9d

As someone who rides frequently with an e-bike on the sidewalk because of our infrastructure in LA, I can tell you 20mph is insanely fast for sidewalks that have huge bumps and driveways. it’s pretty hard to do that. The thing is, the worse the infrastructure the less likely there are pedestrians.

Chris' RacCoons @chrisraccoons.bsky.social · 9d

We are absolutely supporters of bikes (e- or otherwise), but we do believe that sidewalks are not an appropriate place for motorized vehicles (bikes, scooters, etc) traveling at 20 mph and wish those (already sufficient) rules were enforced.

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Chris @chrisbybikes.bsky.social · 10d

hahaha

Chris @chrisbybikes.bsky.social · 10d

Big!(if true)

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Miser @misernyc.bsky.social · 10d

A law in the way gravity is:

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Chris @chrisbybikes.bsky.social · 12d

Total coincidence but I was also rocking my Rovelo apparel

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Chris @chrisbybikes.bsky.social · 12d

"Bicycles Deliver the Freedom That Auto Ads Promise" @tomflood.bsky.social

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Alfred Twu @alfredtwu.com · 12d

What can mid-rise housing look like on side streets where lots are redeveloped one at a time? This example is a good one.
- All homes have windows in at least two directions.
- Elevator building.
- Entry door from a balcony for fresh air.
50x122 is a common lot size in much of western North America.

Bryn Davidson - Lanefab @lanefab.com · 13d

The New Vancouver Special - 50' lot edition.

Accessible single stair flats on a 50x122 lot.
12 family size homes (or) 24 small units.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13d

some people told dave chappelle his jokes weren’t funny and this ego maniac has been having a meltdown over it for ten years

The Hollywood Reporter @thr.com · 14d

Dave Chappelle criticized the status of free speech in the United States while on stage at the Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia.

Dave Chappelle Criticizes Free Speech in America at Saudi Arabia Comedy Festival

Dave Chappelle criticized the status of free speech in the United States while on stage at the Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 14d

There is a gulf in America. I submit it is the gulf between good and evil, or at least not-evil and evil.

The gulf is not just between people who oppose this and people who are indifferent to it or reluctantly accept it in support of immigration policy or see it as collateral damage.
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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 14d

This raid is disgusting, abominable behavior, traumatizing children and families in their homes.
abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

"They was terrified. The kids was crying. People was screaming. They looked very distraught. I was out there crying when I seen the little girl come around the corner, because they was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other," Watson said. "That's all I kept asking. What is the morality? Where's the human? One of them literally laughed. He was standing right here. He said, 'f*** them kids.'"

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Chris @chrisbybikes.bsky.social · 13d

Costs go up and down, but you can control for zoning. You can control permitting speeds. Are you familiar with LA’s ED1 affordable housing, it was immediately successful so our mayor quickly changed the zoning to stop it. It showed how much Zoning and permitting are a faucet you can turn on/off.

Chris @chrisbybikes.bsky.social · 14d

That makes me the elder gifted kid statesman (52)

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Chris @chrisbybikes.bsky.social · 14d

For sure. I don’t think anyone would argue against that. Also interest rates. But the zoning has to come first. the only reason to keep it is segregation.

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Chris @chrisbybikes.bsky.social · 14d

Of course it’s not the whole thing. But if it’s illegal to build it as it is in much LA or any other California city, then it doesn’t matter how much the other costs are, right?

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Chris @chrisbybikes.bsky.social · 14d

NIMBYs Rule Everything Around Me

Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 15d

Confirmed: SDOT will be removing the bus only lane on E Union Street this weekend, ceding this part of the $130 million RapidRide G project back to general purpose traffic in response to requests from nearby property owners.

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