East Bay for Everyone and HAC will celebrate the Single Stair Design Competition winners and entrants TONIGHT at 6pm at Einwiller Kuehl's offices near 19th Street BART in Oakland.

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For the Portland category: winner Inner Garden maximizes cross-ventilation and access to sunlight via a modular, mass timber frame.

For the San Francisco category: David Baker Architects' Steplight gracefully fits six floors of living space on a mid-block 25x110 parcel that is ubiquitous in San Francisco's Western and recently upzoned neighborhoods.

For the Austin category the winner is Cadravre Exuis. With 21 homes on 60% lot coverage this submission balances livability that provides generous open space and a density of 150 dwelling units per acre.

Tons of cities have this requirement... Walnut Creek does also

Now to take a big cup of coffee and figure out when most of the homes in Contra Costa County were built

In practice this would probably mean giving Antioch and Concord residents a say in land use decisions on the Peninsula and SF but for some reason it never really seems to work this way. Even the “equity communities” heavily prioritize local groups with 2-3x AMI

To be clear these specific buses are some of the oldest in the country and I wouldn't want to generalize from County Connection's experience.

The specific issue is that $3 million in AHSC grant funding is about to be wasted on 2-3 buses at a time idling at Walnut Creek BART.

The reliability/availability level (2-25% per coach) and mean time between failures (500 miles) are both well within FTA early retirement range

*As a group,* the four BEB's purchased in 2018 have 35% availability - at least one bus ran on this route on 35% of service days.
The four BEB's purchased in 2016 have 42% availability

Availability levels for the individual buses ranges from 2-25%

The reason this staff report mentions purchasing two battery packs, instead of eight, is that only two of the eight battery electric buses *work,* currently. The rest are out of service, some of them for multiple years countyconnection.com/wp-content/u...

Another deficiency of policy analysis is the ability to consider counterfactuals.

How many additional kids will be exposed to lead paint or live in 80 year buildings that don’t have sprinklers at all because we make new construction so expensive and so hard to put on small sites.

What are tilt and turn windows? Does anyone even sell these in the US?

can you explain the issue with double hung windows in modular construction?