Councilman Ryan Dorsey
@electryandorsey.bsky.social
I used to hang TVs over rich people’s fireplaces and went to school for music. Now I’m a 3rd-term city councilman in my hometown, Baltimore.
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"The density regulations roughly matched the existing density of each neighborhood, sort of, more or less. That was it. No science. No public health data. Just numbers written into a chart decades ago with the sole goal of preserving the status quo."
"Why I lost faith in zoning." tinyurl.com/5n8sh428 Baltimore’s former zoning board executive director, on why she supports @mayorbmscott.bsky.social bills to promote more density and multi-family housing in the city. [OP-ED]
Baltimore’s former zoning board director explains why she lost faith in zoning | Baltimore Brew
The mayor’s “Housing Options and Opportunity” legislation – including Bill 25-0066 – will go a long way toward fixing an unfair system. [OP-ED]
tinyurl.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:00 PM
"The density regulations roughly matched the existing density of each neighborhood, sort of, more or less. That was it. No science. No public health data. Just numbers written into a chart decades ago with the sole goal of preserving the status quo."
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this gets at the core of what's wrong with all the arguments I've seen against bill 25-0066
"I find it troubling when neighborhood leaders look enviously at private exclusionary restrictions borne of racism and ask the city to impose similarly exclusionary barriers through public laws."
"I find it troubling when neighborhood leaders look enviously at private exclusionary restrictions borne of racism and ask the city to impose similarly exclusionary barriers through public laws."
"Why I lost faith in zoning." tinyurl.com/5n8sh428 Baltimore’s former zoning board executive director, on why she supports @mayorbmscott.bsky.social bills to promote more density and multi-family housing in the city. [OP-ED]
Baltimore’s former zoning board director explains why she lost faith in zoning | Baltimore Brew
The mayor’s “Housing Options and Opportunity” legislation – including Bill 25-0066 – will go a long way toward fixing an unfair system. [OP-ED]
tinyurl.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:21 PM
this gets at the core of what's wrong with all the arguments I've seen against bill 25-0066
"I find it troubling when neighborhood leaders look enviously at private exclusionary restrictions borne of racism and ask the city to impose similarly exclusionary barriers through public laws."
"I find it troubling when neighborhood leaders look enviously at private exclusionary restrictions borne of racism and ask the city to impose similarly exclusionary barriers through public laws."
Reposted by Councilman Ryan Dorsey
The "health and safety" pretext for zoning is nonsensical today because it was never more than a Jim Crow assertion of Black neighbors as unsafe and unhealthful.
It's how zoning was legitimated as a police power after antecedants—segregation ordinances, racial covenants—proved legally ineffectual.
It's how zoning was legitimated as a police power after antecedants—segregation ordinances, racial covenants—proved legally ineffectual.
November 24, 2025 at 4:29 PM
The "health and safety" pretext for zoning is nonsensical today because it was never more than a Jim Crow assertion of Black neighbors as unsafe and unhealthful.
It's how zoning was legitimated as a police power after antecedants—segregation ordinances, racial covenants—proved legally ineffectual.
It's how zoning was legitimated as a police power after antecedants—segregation ordinances, racial covenants—proved legally ineffectual.
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Great piece on how density restrictions in zoning are essentially BS.
November 24, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Great piece on how density restrictions in zoning are essentially BS.
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the idea of a neighborhood character is every bit as reactionary as the idea of a national character, and is motivated by the same thing: "I deserve to be here and others don't"
Great piece on how density restrictions in zoning are essentially BS.
November 24, 2025 at 4:55 PM
the idea of a neighborhood character is every bit as reactionary as the idea of a national character, and is motivated by the same thing: "I deserve to be here and others don't"
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nothing will radicalize you against zoning quite like engaging with zoning
November 24, 2025 at 4:52 PM
nothing will radicalize you against zoning quite like engaging with zoning
A 58-year-old man on a bike died on Friday evening after being hit by a driver on Ensor Street along Latrobe Homes
A man died last night after crashing his car in the 2500 block of Hawkins Point Road.
A 76-year-old woman was killed in a two-car crash at Northern Pkwy & Pimlico this afternoon.
July 7, 2025 at 4:56 PM
A 58-year-old man on a bike died on Friday evening after being hit by a driver on Ensor Street along Latrobe Homes
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Consistently ranked as one of the best downtowns in New England, attracting tourists from around the world, none of the buildings depicted in this image could be constructed today under our overly restrictive modern zoning regulations.
📍 Salem, MA
📍 Salem, MA
June 12, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Consistently ranked as one of the best downtowns in New England, attracting tourists from around the world, none of the buildings depicted in this image could be constructed today under our overly restrictive modern zoning regulations.
📍 Salem, MA
📍 Salem, MA
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In a functional housing market this would have been redeveloped as a small apartment building 30 years ago.
A hearty congratulations to the home buyer who picked up this fantastic 2 bedroom, 1 bathroom, 1085 sqft starter home in Palo Alto!
June 11, 2025 at 10:08 PM
In a functional housing market this would have been redeveloped as a small apartment building 30 years ago.
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this is true - but pales in comparison to resources required for cars tho
We should talk more about resource efficiency & the circular economy in transport.
“The e-bike sector is one with great potential to improve both environmental and public health. But to realise these benefits, we need to focus on making them last longer and use less resources.”
“The e-bike sector is one with great potential to improve both environmental and public health. But to realise these benefits, we need to focus on making them last longer and use less resources.”
E-bikes are becoming e-waste – here’s how to reduce the environmental cost
Electric bike batteries can be particularly dangerous and tricky to dispose of.
theconversation.com
June 12, 2025 at 5:52 AM
this is true - but pales in comparison to resources required for cars tho
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We’re fixing Atlantic Avenue! This is what a comprehensive community-led rezoning looks like 🏠
May 29, 2025 at 9:52 PM
We’re fixing Atlantic Avenue! This is what a comprehensive community-led rezoning looks like 🏠
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the embodied carbon potential of point access blocks v. status quo development is quite massive
better homes. higher quality of life. better outcomes related to climate, too.
better homes. higher quality of life. better outcomes related to climate, too.
that's a 28% reduction just in the number of constructed square feet per bedroom...
but the swiss project by ADP is also mostly family sized homes - 2 and 3 bedroom units. every unit is corner aspect (light on 2 sides) or triple aspect (daylight on 3 sides)
www.archdaily.com/900543/apart...
but the swiss project by ADP is also mostly family sized homes - 2 and 3 bedroom units. every unit is corner aspect (light on 2 sides) or triple aspect (daylight on 3 sides)
www.archdaily.com/900543/apart...
Apartment Building Tödistrasse Zürich / ADP Architektur Design Planung AG
Completed in 2016 in Zürich, Switzerland. Images by Jürg Zimmermann. The existing old house was demolished. In its place was built a new building with 16 apartments. The detached apartment building in...
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May 18, 2025 at 7:21 PM
the embodied carbon potential of point access blocks v. status quo development is quite massive
better homes. higher quality of life. better outcomes related to climate, too.
better homes. higher quality of life. better outcomes related to climate, too.
Excited to be jurying this event today. Hope to see you there.
May 17, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Excited to be jurying this event today. Hope to see you there.
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Amazing and historic council agenda in Baltimore!
Big things on the agenda for introduction in Baltimore on Monday:
•Plex Reform
•Single-Stair Reform
•Parking Reform
•Plex Reform
•Single-Stair Reform
•Parking Reform
May 13, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Amazing and historic council agenda in Baltimore!
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I was thrilled to see @electryandorsey.bsky.social cut to the point about the pernicious social function of restrictive housing laws, especially here in Baltimore
May 13, 2025 at 3:04 PM
I was thrilled to see @electryandorsey.bsky.social cut to the point about the pernicious social function of restrictive housing laws, especially here in Baltimore
Reposted by Councilman Ryan Dorsey
Back now with some more big ones, starting with one from @electryandorsey.bsky.social for Land Use & Transportation. That's right, we're doing single-stair reform!
May 12, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Back now with some more big ones, starting with one from @electryandorsey.bsky.social for Land Use & Transportation. That's right, we're doing single-stair reform!
Reposted by Councilman Ryan Dorsey
More on this package here at a press conference organized earlier today by @mayorbmscott.bsky.social & featuring remarks from himself & the other legislators involved in the package: www.youtube.com/watch?v=11pT...
Housing Options and Opportunity Act; May 12, 2025
YouTube video by CharmTV Citizens' Hub
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May 12, 2025 at 9:23 PM
More on this package here at a press conference organized earlier today by @mayorbmscott.bsky.social & featuring remarks from himself & the other legislators involved in the package: www.youtube.com/watch?v=11pT...
Reposted by Councilman Ryan Dorsey
This is how you grow the city.
Big things on the agenda for introduction in Baltimore on Monday:
•Plex Reform
•Single-Stair Reform
•Parking Reform
•Plex Reform
•Single-Stair Reform
•Parking Reform
May 10, 2025 at 4:21 PM
This is how you grow the city.
Reposted by Councilman Ryan Dorsey
You really love to see it. 😎
Big things on the agenda for introduction in Baltimore on Monday:
•Plex Reform
•Single-Stair Reform
•Parking Reform
•Plex Reform
•Single-Stair Reform
•Parking Reform
May 9, 2025 at 10:16 PM
You really love to see it. 😎
Big things on the agenda for introduction in Baltimore on Monday:
•Plex Reform
•Single-Stair Reform
•Parking Reform
•Plex Reform
•Single-Stair Reform
•Parking Reform
May 9, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Big things on the agenda for introduction in Baltimore on Monday:
•Plex Reform
•Single-Stair Reform
•Parking Reform
•Plex Reform
•Single-Stair Reform
•Parking Reform
Today, either @mayorbmscott.bsky.social signed my bill to establish a Department of Consumer Protection and Business Licensing, or we’re hit-makers, depending on who you ask.
May 1, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Today, either @mayorbmscott.bsky.social signed my bill to establish a Department of Consumer Protection and Business Licensing, or we’re hit-makers, depending on who you ask.
“The word he’d used for ‘world’ was the word for ‘city’, the one that derived from the verb for ‘correct action’.”
-A Memory Called Empire, Arkady Martine
-A Memory Called Empire, Arkady Martine
April 28, 2025 at 11:36 AM
“The word he’d used for ‘world’ was the word for ‘city’, the one that derived from the verb for ‘correct action’.”
-A Memory Called Empire, Arkady Martine
-A Memory Called Empire, Arkady Martine
Every Tuesday I have open office hours.
And every Tuesday somebody comes to tell me that their neighborhood is diverse (by their definition) and they just love it, but that they don’t want those people moving to their neighborhood.
The neighborhood is not theirs. It’s the city’s.
And every Tuesday somebody comes to tell me that their neighborhood is diverse (by their definition) and they just love it, but that they don’t want those people moving to their neighborhood.
The neighborhood is not theirs. It’s the city’s.
April 27, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Every Tuesday I have open office hours.
And every Tuesday somebody comes to tell me that their neighborhood is diverse (by their definition) and they just love it, but that they don’t want those people moving to their neighborhood.
The neighborhood is not theirs. It’s the city’s.
And every Tuesday somebody comes to tell me that their neighborhood is diverse (by their definition) and they just love it, but that they don’t want those people moving to their neighborhood.
The neighborhood is not theirs. It’s the city’s.
DOT has no contract with its principal streetlight maintenance vendor (BGE), no coherent reporting system, and no discernible system of asset management.
Gee, I wonder why there are still streetlights missing that got knocked down a decade ago.
www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/tr...
Gee, I wonder why there are still streetlights missing that got knocked down a decade ago.
www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/tr...
Why does Baltimore struggle to fix downed streetlights?
A Baltimore City Council committee on Thursday delved into the question of why it's so difficult to get toppled street lights repaired?
www.thebaltimorebanner.com
April 11, 2025 at 10:15 PM
DOT has no contract with its principal streetlight maintenance vendor (BGE), no coherent reporting system, and no discernible system of asset management.
Gee, I wonder why there are still streetlights missing that got knocked down a decade ago.
www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/tr...
Gee, I wonder why there are still streetlights missing that got knocked down a decade ago.
www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/tr...