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PE. Dengineer. Transportation and Engineering. Safe network builder for people walking, in wheelchairs, cycling & driving. Train lover. Selectboard member. Longer form here : https://bit.ly/4d0YNTj
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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 1d
SB 79 does not apply to Big Thunder Mountain Railroad at Disneyland. Please stop wasting my time with such foolish inquiries.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 1d
Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/
Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately
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City Engineer @cityengineer.bsky.social · 1d
#BackTo3 Sam!
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City Engineer @cityengineer.bsky.social · 1d
The Pay It Forward Housing Compact

Restoring Affordability, Protecting Recent Buyers, and Re-anchoring Housing as “Homes”

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Dan Murphy PE (@danmurphy672689)
The Pay It Forward Housing Compact Restoring Affordability, Protecting Recent Buyers, and Re-anchoring Housing as a Home Problem Statement Since 1970, the median home price–to–income multiplier in ...
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City Engineer @cityengineer.bsky.social · 1d
Obama
“I don’t care how much you love working people. They can’t afford a house because all the rules in your state make it prohibitive to build. and zoning prevents multifamily structures because of NIMBY. I don’t want to know your ideology because you can’t build anything. It does not matter.”
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City Engineer @cityengineer.bsky.social · 1d
Boomers need to lead the charge to pay it forward - incrementally
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Dan Murphy PE (@danmurphy672689)
The Pay It Forward Housing Compact Restoring Affordability, Protecting Recent Buyers, and Re-anchoring Housing as a Home Problem Statement Since 1970, the median home price–to–income multiplier in ...
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City Engineer @cityengineer.bsky.social · 3d
Any progressive not actively supporting slow steady housing supply growth across metros to incrementally lower housing prices is aiding and abetting the localigarchs and oligarchs they claim to oppose.
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City Engineer @cityengineer.bsky.social · 3d
You didn’t even endorse him in the primary. Neither did Emma I think because he said nice things about Abundance.
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City Engineer @cityengineer.bsky.social · 4d
If you are not actively supporting slow steady housing supply growth across metros to incrementally lower housing prices, you are actually aiding and abetting the localigarchs and oligarchs you claim to oppose.
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City Engineer @cityengineer.bsky.social · 4d
No major American politician currently frames high housing multipliers explicitly as a form of oppression.

Not @ZohranKMamdani
Not anybody
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City Engineer @cityengineer.bsky.social · 4d
The War on Land Use that Mandates Cars
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Jeff Speck @jeffspeck.bsky.social · 7d
Have you been taking my courses on @planetizen?
Try it, you'll like it!
Walkable City 6, The Interesting Walk just dropped today:
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Walkable City 6: The Interesting Walk
Nothing interests people more than other people. Humans will avoid walks that do not provide a sense of human habitation, human effort, and human scale. An interesting walk comes from urban design tha...
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City Engineer @cityengineer.bsky.social · 12d
Today I’d say “Park and Walk or Bike”
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Guest columnist Dan Murphy: The many benefits of parking — then walking  - Daily Hampshire Gazette
I remember my excited face smushed up against the car window eagerly taking in the big city of Boston. It was finally the day my family and I were going to see the Red Sox. I couldn’t wait! We drove p...
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City Engineer @cityengineer.bsky.social · 12d
Zoning vs no zoning
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City Engineer @cityengineer.bsky.social · 13d
We could also undo zoning and make it far easier for people to make most trips without being forced to use a car
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City Engineer @cityengineer.bsky.social · 13d
In places with high multipliers we need steady incremental growth so kids and grandkids can afford to live where they grew up or anywhere they want to.
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City Engineer @cityengineer.bsky.social · 13d
It’s zoning reform not deregulation. It’s states taking back some of the enabling power given to locals who overreached and force residents to pay much more than they should for housing making buying a house unachievable for far too many.
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City Engineer @cityengineer.bsky.social · 13d
Remember:

Allowing a single family homeowner to add an apartment or two to her home has nothing to do with oligarchies, much more to do with #localigarchies

It’s also free.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · Feb 16
“Beyond Skepticism: Data Confirms Auckland's Zoning Reforms Delivered on Housing Promises.

Three rigorous studies, 43,500 new homes, and a 28% drop in rents: The data is in on Auckland's great housing experiment.”
Beyond Skepticism: Data Confirms Auckland's Zoning Reforms Delivered on Housing Promises
Three rigorous studies, 43,500 new homes, and a 28% drop in rents: The data is in on Auckland's great housing experiment
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City Engineer @cityengineer.bsky.social · 14d
Excellent density, great topography and smart network segment choices made it possible
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City Engineer @cityengineer.bsky.social · 14d
Low density is deadly
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City Engineer @cityengineer.bsky.social · 16d
localigarchy (n.)
Powerful local interests that promote scarcity by controlling zoning, and planning to limit the growth of market housing supply and maintain oversized property appreciation.
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City Engineer @cityengineer.bsky.social · 16d
I think this definition better

localigarchy (n.)
Powerful local interests that promote scarcity by controlling zoning, and planning to limit the growth of market housing supply and maintain oversized property appreciation.
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City Engineer @cityengineer.bsky.social · 16d
These special housing islands you need to win a lottery to get into are dumb and ripe for corruption and are anti outsider. Just allow more housing until supply meets demand. Local builders would love to do sfh conversions at add an apt or 2 to add more supply.
#BackTo3
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City Engineer @cityengineer.bsky.social · 16d
The war on the middle class need state and city level zoning reform to allow sfh conversions to duplex and triplex BY RIGHT, to allow ADUs BY RIGHT, to allow duplex as base unit in more zones, BY RIGHT. Only through steady incrememtal growth will prices ever fall.
#BackTo3 #BoomersPayItForward