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Patrick Kennedy [Undo Damage]

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Cities for choice in housing, neighborhood, transpo; universal access, opportunity & upward mobility. Prof of Sustainable Development @SMU; Board of Directors Dallas Area Rapid Transit; Founder: THE.City & the American Dream

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Patrick Kennedy [Undo Damage] @humanecosystem.bsky.social · Nov 21

Read my interview for CNU's 25th anniversary compendium of Great Ideas (posting to pin basically). www.cnu.org/publicsquare...

Great Idea: Freeways Without Futures

Reducing state and federal infrastructure costs while boosting local economies by strengthening urban places is a win-win from in-city freeway transformation.

www.cnu.org

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Patrick Kennedy [Undo Damage] @humanecosystem.bsky.social · 2m

Around a similar time, Ohio caps taxes to 35% of appraised value. Along with all of their highway construction, they absolutely wiped out municipal finances forcing increases in local income taxes. Who would want to live there?

Patrick Kennedy [Undo Damage] @humanecosystem.bsky.social · 5m

California prop-13 discouraged redevelopment of existing property effectively freezing everything in Karate Kid time and limiting supply from meeting demand driving prices haywire.

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Patrick Kennedy [Undo Damage] @humanecosystem.bsky.social · 5m

When states mess around with property taxes, very bad things happen.

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Patrick Kennedy [Undo Damage] @humanecosystem.bsky.social · 10m

These were homes.

Patrick Kennedy [Undo Damage] @humanecosystem.bsky.social · 11m

Unlike with Cleveland, this one went right thru the heart of the black community:

Patrick Kennedy [Undo Damage] @humanecosystem.bsky.social · 14m

#58: I-75 through downtown Toledo. You can keep the rest. This one was a mistake.

Patrick Kennedy [Undo Damage] @humanecosystem.bsky.social · 18m

Current progress: 57/110.

Patrick Kennedy [Undo Damage] @humanecosystem.bsky.social · Aug 8

1 like = 1 highway that should be decommissioned and redeveloped.

Patrick Kennedy [Undo Damage] @humanecosystem.bsky.social · 18m

Cleveland's population is about 1/3rd what it was when the highways began construction. So 'unbuild' the highways by 2/3rds within the city to accommodate the current population.

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Patrick Kennedy [Undo Damage] @humanecosystem.bsky.social · 20m

#56 and 57: which to get rid of I71 or Ohio 76? We're doing both, which run through residential areas. Meanwhile, I-77 runs primarily thru industrial areas. Airport traffic can take that.

Patrick Kennedy [Undo Damage] @humanecosystem.bsky.social · 26m

#53-55: I-90, I-77, I-470. I would take out both of these and that horrible interchange. Get onto city streets, which I will diagram momentarily, and the 470 stub.

Patrick Kennedy [Undo Damage] @humanecosystem.bsky.social · 30m

The city is losing $14 million/year in property tax revenue which would be $40 million if not for the state's 35% assessment of market value (that which can be taxed). The law was enacted in 1976 after most of these freeways had wiped out a large portion of the city's tax rolls.

Patrick Kennedy [Undo Damage] @humanecosystem.bsky.social · 34m

Highway right-of-way comprises 164 acres within the 1-mile radius and worth a minimum of $718 million, which is based on recent comparables. It is probably much higher given the highways are devaluing both proximity and real estate in this area.

Patrick Kennedy [Undo Damage] @humanecosystem.bsky.social · 37m

What was there before? 1952 aerial shows homes and businesses. We need to right this wrong.

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Patrick Kennedy [Undo Damage] @humanecosystem.bsky.social · 43m

This intersection is a monument to misguided priorities. Or in other words, stupidity.

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Patrick Kennedy [Undo Damage] @humanecosystem.bsky.social · 45m

#52 Cleveland Memorial Shoreway - With the stadium going away, there is even less need for regional infrastructure. Assuming the lake isn't going to catch fire anytime soon, the stadium should become residential land. Take out this highway.

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Patrick Kennedy [Undo Damage] @humanecosystem.bsky.social · Aug 8

Current progress: 12/53

1. Pensacola 110
2. Louisville 65
3. San Fran 280
4. San Fran 101
5. Youngstown 193/422/62 semi-loop
6. Charlotte 74
7. Charlotte 277
8. Austin 35
9. Huntsville 231
10. Huntsville 431
11. Huntsville 565
12. Richmond - choose a diamond/clover interchange.

Patrick Kennedy [Undo Damage] @humanecosystem.bsky.social · Aug 8

1 like = 1 highway that should be decommissioned and redeveloped.

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Patrick Kennedy [Undo Damage] @humanecosystem.bsky.social · 50m

The impetus for the Cleveland focus is the eventual closing of the existing lakefront Browns football Stadium on old docklands separated from downtown by both rail and highway. The closing of this stadium is a real opportunity for the city IMO.

Patrick Kennedy [Undo Damage] @humanecosystem.bsky.social · 55m

Since I have no problems with the outer perimeter, let's zoom in a bit. One of these two circled in green is redundant, but both are outside of the 3-mile radius that is the primary focus of this effort. Maybe fixing the inner network will tell us which of these is needed less.

Patrick Kennedy [Undo Damage] @humanecosystem.bsky.social · 59m

To provide further context, here is the map of concentrations of African Americans. Unlike most cities, the area of highest concentration, the east side was largely left alone.

Patrick Kennedy [Undo Damage] @humanecosystem.bsky.social · 1h

and the original Yellow Book map, which isn't too dissimilar. Big difference from a network perspective is the completion of the semi-orbital (red line) which is a good thing.

Patrick Kennedy [Undo Damage] @humanecosystem.bsky.social · 1h

As promised last night, we are getting back on the highway removal train. Starting in Cleveland. Before figuring out which highways to remove, let's look at the regional network:

Patrick Kennedy [Undo Damage] @humanecosystem.bsky.social · 4h

well yeah, but also the fact that it's a shift from labour to reform is incomprehensible to me.

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Patrick Kennedy [Undo Damage] @humanecosystem.bsky.social · 8h

Aside from the particulars, these wild shifts in voter sentiment are not a great sign (british voter intention).

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Patrick Kennedy [Undo Damage] @humanecosystem.bsky.social · 18h

As should the next one to make up for it, paid for to some extent by redevelopment of inner-city highways.

Patrick Kennedy [Undo Damage] @humanecosystem.bsky.social · 18h

Best of luck to all of those attempting to build entire place-based economies from scratch. It always goes according to plan.

If I was an investor I would be pretty concerned about its viability given Cali's direction towards upzonings.

Louis Mirante @louismirante.bsky.social · 21h

Spent some time with the California Forever plans today and it's exciting. If they pull this off, I would absolutely consider moving. First off - they're really locking themselves into 30 du/acre, which is like triple San Francisco's (13 du/acre). That would be sick as hell.