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East Bay for Everyone @eastbayforeveryone.bsky.social · 1d

It's slow going but it is happening, here's an article from yesterday

Many CA cities wanted to build more housing by eliminating stair requirements. Only Culver City got it done

What do stairs have to do with California’s housing crisis? More than you might think, says this Culver City councilmember.

laist.com

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East Bay for Everyone @eastbayforeveryone.bsky.social · 1d

Upzoning plus the large lots of uptown Oakland worked amazingly. Highlights both the promise of zoning reform from efforts like SB79, and also the need to make apartment construction on smaller lots easier (single stair reform) if we want to replicate this success.

DJ Crimson @djcrimson.bsky.social · 1d

Every so often I look up the rents for the Nook on Valdez, a micro-unit project in downtown Oakland built about 10 years ago. They are currently renting units affordable to people at 45% of AMI. This is a market-rate project that pays property taxes.

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East Bay for Everyone @eastbayforeveryone.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you for giving us a chance to highlight our platform and advocacy work eastbayforeveryone.org/about-2/plat...

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East Bay for Everyone @eastbayforeveryone.bsky.social · 1d

Every new multifamily apartment in California has an affordable component. Many cities rezoned by SB 79 have not built any multifamily housing - the cheapest housing type - for decades.

And the parcels rezoned by SB 79 can be used by nonprofit developers to do 100% affordable on more sites in CA.

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cecilia lunaparra @cecilialunaparra.bsky.social · 2d

please join me in keeping these two victims of traffic violence in our thoughts.

it is so heartbreaking to repeatedly see our residents and visitors, especially the most vulnerable, be subject to such violence on our streets.

The Berkeley Scanner @berkeleyscanner.com · 2d

BREAKING: A driver struck two pedestrians, including a pregnant woman, near UC Berkeley on Friday, sending both to Highland Hospital.

'Major windshield damage': 2 people struck near UC Berkeley

Both pedestrians, one of whom is pregnant, were rushed to Highland Hospital, according to early reports.

www.berkeleyscanner.com

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East Bay for Everyone @eastbayforeveryone.bsky.social · 2d

great news - if no one wants to live in them, we’ll get a lot of new property tax revenue for our schools and parks with zero additional traffic or students in classrooms

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East Bay for Everyone @eastbayforeveryone.bsky.social · 2d

join us for an emergency transit-oriented victory celebration at Temescal Brewing in Oakland at 3pm on Saturday the 11th. (Temescal is one of the neighborhoods that really needed this upzoning!)

SB 79 Celebration!

7 stories of housing near quality transit is now the law of California! Gov Newsom signed SB 79, the land use law that YIMBYs have been fighting for for 8 years, into law on Friday. Let's celebrate to...

actionnetwork.org

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East Bay for Everyone @eastbayforeveryone.bsky.social · 2d

Today, like every other day, was a good day to upzone Rockridge. Thank you @governor.ca.gov and @scottwiener.bsky.social for finally making it happen. #SB79

Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀 @aceckhouse.bsky.social · 2d

current mood 😎

www.youtube.com/watch?v=inXC...

Stevie Wonder- Signed, Sealed, Delivered, I'm Yours

YouTube video by faithk123

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East Bay for Everyone @eastbayforeveryone.bsky.social · 4d

Hey Berkeley - you got a couple days left to tell @berkeleyca.gov that you support an ambitious corridor upzoning.

Berkeley Corridors Zoning Update Survey

Take this survey powered by surveymonkey.com. Create your own surveys for free.

www.surveymonkey.com

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East Bay for Everyone @eastbayforeveryone.bsky.social · 5d

Ultimately the crowd was a lot less hostile than they would have been in previous years because there's nothing they can do to stop the proposal

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East Bay for Everyone @eastbayforeveryone.bsky.social · 5d

What could have been

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East Bay for Everyone @eastbayforeveryone.bsky.social · 5d

In Alamo at application hearing for the first multifamily housing application in this CDP in 40 years.

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East Bay for Everyone @eastbayforeveryone.bsky.social · 10d

@jwbee.bsky.social you can’t fool us Jeff. we know who you are.

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triumus.bsky.social @triumus.bsky.social · 12d

Unfassbar... in related news: In der Bay Area kam grad raus, dass dort die Wasserstoffflotte je nach Modell nur zu 43% oder 64% der Zeit einsatzbereit war. Wäre spannend mal Zahlen der SASA zu kriegen.

East Bay for Everyone @eastbayforeveryone.bsky.social · 18d

In 2024, AC Transit's hydrogen bus fleet achieved an availability rate of 43% (for the 2018 variety) and 64% (for the 2022 variety). Essentially you need twice as many hydrogen buses as service you want to run actransit.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=...

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East Bay for Everyone @eastbayforeveryone.bsky.social · 12d

Front and rear car each make half the stops

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East Bay for Everyone @eastbayforeveryone.bsky.social · 13d

California is one of the only states to widely deploy sound barriers around highways and we’ve also largely stopped doing that www.nber.org/papers/w34298

The Traffic Noise Externality: Costs, Incidence and Policy Implications

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

www.nber.org

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East Bay for Everyone @eastbayforeveryone.bsky.social · 13d

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East Bay for Everyone @eastbayforeveryone.bsky.social · 16d

We need to get real about where much needed transit operation funds is going to come from.

From @adinalevin.bsky.social:

State Task Force - Big gaps in funding and capital projects; improvement needed in coordination — Seamless Bay Area

On September 30, California’s State Transit Transformation Task Force has opportunities to advance policies for more coordinated transit and more timely and cost-effective capital projects. However, t...

www.seamlessbayarea.org

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East Bay for Everyone @eastbayforeveryone.bsky.social · 17d

Our comment to @cityofoakland.bsky.social Planning Commission on the General Plan update eastbayforeveryone.org/wp-content/u...

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East Bay for Everyone @eastbayforeveryone.bsky.social · 18d

You can replace a diesel engine for $35,000 and then run the bus for six more years, about eleven years of revenue service for twelve years of useful life by AC Transit's estimates.

These hydrogen buses cost $1.6 million each and you get three years of useful service out of them.

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East Bay for Everyone @eastbayforeveryone.bsky.social · 18d

A six year old bus is “near EOL”? At 43% reliability this means you are procuring a total of 2.5 years of revenue service when you buy a bus.

Why should transit agencies pursue this

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East Bay for Everyone @eastbayforeveryone.bsky.social · 18d

Right on cue bsky.app/profile/news...

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East Bay for Everyone @eastbayforeveryone.bsky.social · 18d

This is in part due to state and federal rule making that treats hydrogen as "zero emission" despite the fact that most hydrogen is made from natural gas (which is partly why Chevron is supporting hydrogen so much)

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East Bay for Everyone @eastbayforeveryone.bsky.social · 18d

Those are abysmal numbers.

Despite this, at today's board meeting AC Transit is going to discuss a plan to purchase 47 more hydrogen buses actransit.legistar.com/LegislationD...

ALAMEDA-CONTRA COSTA TRANSIT DISTRICT - Report ID: 25-436

Title: Consider authorizing the General Manager, or his designee, to execute documents through the State of Washington Transit Bus Cooperative Contract, to purchase up to forty-seven (47) forty-foot h...

actransit.legistar.com

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East Bay for Everyone @eastbayforeveryone.bsky.social · 18d

In 2024, AC Transit's hydrogen bus fleet achieved an availability rate of 43% (for the 2018 variety) and 64% (for the 2022 variety). Essentially you need twice as many hydrogen buses as service you want to run actransit.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=...

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