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dereksagehorn.bsky.social @dereksagehorn.bsky.social · 12m

That funded conceptual planning and preliminary design might not result in a project moving forward to final design, procurement and construction.

That's okay.

It's certainly preferable to burn a few Million than lock in to an indeterminate multiple of a Billion via a ballot measure.

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dereksagehorn.bsky.social @dereksagehorn.bsky.social · 19m

Planners and designers are especially cheap compared to digging a tunnel or building a viaduct.

Regions, states and Congress need to get comfortable investing resources in transit planning and design prior to committing to constructing lines on a map.
www.theurbanist.org/2025/10/10/h...

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dereksagehorn.bsky.social @dereksagehorn.bsky.social · 1d

115’ single stair structure at Pigeon Point

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alex block @alexblock.bsky.social · 1d

Worth noting that not only did the funding change, but the structure of the funding completely shifted to the more discretionary system we have today; it discouraged the system-wide planning and investment.

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dereksagehorn.bsky.social @dereksagehorn.bsky.social · 1d

Not seeing the basis for this comparison tbh

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dereksagehorn.bsky.social @dereksagehorn.bsky.social · 1d

Really nasty dynamic for their coalition that the lead painters are 1) the most visible part of their coalition and 2) get more deranged as they engage more.

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dereksagehorn.bsky.social @dereksagehorn.bsky.social · 2d

[victory alert]

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dereksagehorn.bsky.social @dereksagehorn.bsky.social · 2d

Did those 4+1s cluster in higher rent areas? (You may have covered this in the book but I don’t remember.)

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dereksagehorn.bsky.social @dereksagehorn.bsky.social · 2d

There’s one right behind E&Js and Degrees Plato.

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dereksagehorn.bsky.social @dereksagehorn.bsky.social · 2d

“The new ordinance contains a nom, broader selection of zones which have been carefully tailored to the variety of specialized living, shopping, and working areas noeded in our complex city.”

cc @aceckhouse.bsky.social

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dereksagehorn.bsky.social @dereksagehorn.bsky.social · 2d

R-60 zone

“To provide areas for medium density
apartment development. Conditional use permits required for all developments with more than six dwelling units in order to ensure harmony with existing neighborhood character.”

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dereksagehorn.bsky.social @dereksagehorn.bsky.social · 2d

“Why Oakland Needs a New [Zoning] Ordinance?”

Oakland Planning Department 1963

babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc...

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dereksagehorn.bsky.social @dereksagehorn.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, see this brochure from 1963

babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc...

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George Spies @georgespies.bsky.social · 2d

More focus on service-led planning can bear cost-effective improvements! Let’s put riders first!

Jeffrey Tumlin 🏳️‍🌈 🌁 @jeffreytumlin.bsky.social · 2d

Like many agencies today, Muni is rightly focused on ensuring its core system is fast, frequent, reliable, clean and safe. I am grateful that CalSTA State Rail Plan and, increasingly, state funding, is focused less on exurban expansion and more on cost-effective, rider-focused improvement

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dereksagehorn.bsky.social @dereksagehorn.bsky.social · 2d

I lectured at the Housing Crisis DeCal tonight and specifically mentioned dentists using rental depreciation to build low rise speculative apartments lol

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dereksagehorn.bsky.social @dereksagehorn.bsky.social · 2d

Oakland citywide downzoning occurred in 1962 but there were vested rights that continued to be built afterwards.

The post-downzoning entitlements and buildings were typically 3-4 stories, off-street parking ground floor and clustered near Lake Merritt in Adams Point, Grand Lake, Cleveland Heights.

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dereksagehorn.bsky.social @dereksagehorn.bsky.social · 2d

There’s a clear mandate for highest benefit, highest impact and longest timeline project.

(I really like this question!)

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dereksagehorn.bsky.social @dereksagehorn.bsky.social · 2d

There’s strong support for affordable and mixed-income housing as well as parks in the land reclaimed from freeway use — across the board for West Oaklanders and Oaklanders generally.

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dereksagehorn.bsky.social @dereksagehorn.bsky.social · 2d

West Oaklanders support 980 removal at super majority levels

Oaklanders writ large express plurality support (49%) for 980 removal.

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dereksagehorn.bsky.social @dereksagehorn.bsky.social · 2d

Caltrans is presenting on their preliminary findings for Vision 980 at the 10/16 BPAC.

The initial findings show that both the technical and community feedback planning processes support removal of 980 for a complete street, housing and parks.

www.oaklandca.gov/files/assets...

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Joe Fish @sadbusdriver.bsky.social · 3d

The "I'm a small bean" energy by San Francisco is incredibly insulting. Of major cities, San Francisco has the second-highest percentage of rich nhoods and the fourth-lowest percentage of low/middle income nhoods.

How can we talk about gentrification when there's like two places left to gentrify?

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dereksagehorn.bsky.social @dereksagehorn.bsky.social · 3d

Personally I would not use Q3 2019 to Q2 2021 as my data set for vacancy rates for a number of reasons.

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dereksagehorn.bsky.social @dereksagehorn.bsky.social · 3d

A lot to chew on

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dereksagehorn.bsky.social @dereksagehorn.bsky.social · 3d

The rest of the paper has similar sleights of hands and methodological flaws that undergird sweeping topline claims.

You get the sense that the authors don't respect their readers -- even ideologically aligned ones very much.

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dereksagehorn.bsky.social @dereksagehorn.bsky.social · 3d

This matters because PPM has clearly timed the release of the report to coincide with the Family Zoning plan, which concentrates zoned capacity in the West and North side neighborhoods of SF.

Someone reading Key Finding 3 in the exec summary could easily infer that West SF is building apartments.

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