Rory Stolzenberg
@rorystolzenberg.bsky.social
renewable energy tech by day. legalizing housing by night. sometimes vice versa.
planning commissioner in charlottesville
planning commissioner in charlottesville
It is illegal to bring artwork, plants, or silverware onto an Amtrak train.
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November 15, 2025 at 1:01 AM
It is illegal to bring artwork, plants, or silverware onto an Amtrak train.
www.amtrak.com/prohibited-i...
www.amtrak.com/prohibited-i...
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The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law passed 4 years ago. In new research @urbaninstitute.bsky.social we study its effects.
US transport spending increased by 30%, but:
—Funding for non-highway projects flatlined
—Construction cost increases resulted in no actual increase in infrastructure
US transport spending increased by 30%, but:
—Funding for non-highway projects flatlined
—Construction cost increases resulted in no actual increase in infrastructure
Federal Infrastructure Spending on Transportation, Four Years after the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is up for reauthorization in 2026. New analysis shows that the act increased spending on transportation infrastructure, but…
www.urban.org
November 12, 2025 at 5:32 PM
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law passed 4 years ago. In new research @urbaninstitute.bsky.social we study its effects.
US transport spending increased by 30%, but:
—Funding for non-highway projects flatlined
—Construction cost increases resulted in no actual increase in infrastructure
US transport spending increased by 30%, but:
—Funding for non-highway projects flatlined
—Construction cost increases resulted in no actual increase in infrastructure
Welcome to the club, Alexandria!
Zoning for Housing lawsuit dismissed!!
November 12, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Welcome to the club, Alexandria!
This article is horrifying. But on the bright side, this series from APM led to a wholesale rethinking of reading curricula in both Charlottesville and Albemarle school divisions in 2020:
dailyprogress.com/news/local/b...
dailyprogress.com/news/local/b...
November 11, 2025 at 11:15 PM
This article is horrifying. But on the bright side, this series from APM led to a wholesale rethinking of reading curricula in both Charlottesville and Albemarle school divisions in 2020:
dailyprogress.com/news/local/b...
dailyprogress.com/news/local/b...
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I think this is true (hopefully it's not) but if Charlottesville had set a goal last December of increasing the city's protected bike lanes by at least 1 foot in 2025, they would not be on track to meet that goal.
November 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM
I think this is true (hopefully it's not) but if Charlottesville had set a goal last December of increasing the city's protected bike lanes by at least 1 foot in 2025, they would not be on track to meet that goal.
Boarding in Moynihan for the first time in ages and... what happened to all the screens? Looking rough.
November 11, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Boarding in Moynihan for the first time in ages and... what happened to all the screens? Looking rough.
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Really interesting analysis from @zyudhishthu.bsky.social about how building housing, in general, benefits the ability of families to live in a city. pencillingout.substack.com/p/chicagos-d...
Chicago's downtown family boom
And what it can tell us about building family-friendly cities
pencillingout.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Really interesting analysis from @zyudhishthu.bsky.social about how building housing, in general, benefits the ability of families to live in a city. pencillingout.substack.com/p/chicagos-d...
he's running
if i were running for office i would absolutely call my volunteers “the wide awakes,” i would hand out wide awake pins and stickers and hats for people to wear and campaign events would have wide awake banners
THEY USED TO CALL US WOKE
NOW THEY CAN CALL US WIDE AWAKES
NOW THEY CAN CALL US WIDE AWAKES
November 5, 2025 at 6:55 PM
he's running
honestly wild that coyner in a harris+6 district thought it was a good idea to insert herself in the middle of a statewide race on the side of letting jackbooted thugs run rampant across the commonwealth. rip bozo
November 5, 2025 at 4:21 AM
honestly wild that coyner in a harris+6 district thought it was a good idea to insert herself in the middle of a statewide race on the side of letting jackbooted thugs run rampant across the commonwealth. rip bozo
folks,,, get ready to pass some vanvalkenburg housing bills
Democrats are on track for a double-digit number of flips in the Virginia state House. The chamber will be unrecognizable come January.
November 5, 2025 at 2:28 AM
folks,,, get ready to pass some vanvalkenburg housing bills
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went over to the other site for the first time in ages to check the local registrar's turnout charts and what the fuck is going on over there man
November 4, 2025 at 7:41 PM
went over to the other site for the first time in ages to check the local registrar's turnout charts and what the fuck is going on over there man
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Still need more baseball?
We found a CD in our archives containing dozens of unused voice lines from MLB Slugfest 20-03 rejected by the MLB. Here's some of our favorites.
We found a CD in our archives containing dozens of unused voice lines from MLB Slugfest 20-03 rejected by the MLB. Here's some of our favorites.
November 3, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Still need more baseball?
We found a CD in our archives containing dozens of unused voice lines from MLB Slugfest 20-03 rejected by the MLB. Here's some of our favorites.
We found a CD in our archives containing dozens of unused voice lines from MLB Slugfest 20-03 rejected by the MLB. Here's some of our favorites.
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One misconception about IZ is that the market-rate homes in an IZ building cross-subsidize the non-market homes. But this isn't how tax incidence works. Developers cannot set above-market rents, because renters would simply find cheaper rents elsewhere.
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October 30, 2025 at 5:52 PM
One misconception about IZ is that the market-rate homes in an IZ building cross-subsidize the non-market homes. But this isn't how tax incidence works. Developers cannot set above-market rents, because renters would simply find cheaper rents elsewhere.
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THE FOUNDATION FOR THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC
lol new anonymized landed gentry political front just dropped
October 28, 2025 at 8:06 PM
THE FOUNDATION FOR THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC
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lol new anonymized landed gentry political front just dropped
October 28, 2025 at 8:04 PM
lol new anonymized landed gentry political front just dropped
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NIMBYing green energy infrastructure is quickly going to become (already is?) the main climate policy fight. Almost all the fossil fuel infrastructure that has ever been built already exists, so they and their Republican allies can just keep throwing up barriers and stand to profit.
BREAKING from @jael.bsky.social: New York's largest battery project has been canceled.
Swiftsure, a planned 650-megawatt development on Staten Island, was quietly sunset in August, after facing opposition from, among others, Republican NYC mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa.
The story:
Swiftsure, a planned 650-megawatt development on Staten Island, was quietly sunset in August, after facing opposition from, among others, Republican NYC mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa.
The story:
New York’s Largest Battery Project Has Been Canceled
Fullmark Energy quietly shuttered Swiftsure, a planned 650-megawatt energy storage system on Staten Island.
heatmap.news
October 28, 2025 at 1:10 PM
NIMBYing green energy infrastructure is quickly going to become (already is?) the main climate policy fight. Almost all the fossil fuel infrastructure that has ever been built already exists, so they and their Republican allies can just keep throwing up barriers and stand to profit.
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The pictures from this coal train derailment outside Richmond are bonkers.
Note: Siri initially heard “Coltrane” and I approve
www.reddit.com/r/rva/s/g6j3...
Note: Siri initially heard “Coltrane” and I approve
www.reddit.com/r/rva/s/g6j3...
From the rva community on Reddit: CSX coal train derails just outside of Richmond
Explore this post and more from the rva community
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October 26, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Congratulations to Congressman @mike-pruitt.bsky.social (R-Blacksburg)
:)
October 25, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Congratulations to Congressman @mike-pruitt.bsky.social (R-Blacksburg)
ICC committee votes to ban the types of apartments the IBC forces developers to build.
Soon the IBC will reach its final intended form and outlaw apartments entirely!
Soon the IBC will reach its final intended form and outlaw apartments entirely!
IBC-G committee just voted to approve G143-25, which will – if ultimately approved (and most things are) – ban windowless bedrooms in apartment in the 2027 IBC. It was a close one and the chair had to break the tie. As written, it would apply to rehabs of existing buildings, not just new ones.
October 24, 2025 at 9:24 PM
ICC committee votes to ban the types of apartments the IBC forces developers to build.
Soon the IBC will reach its final intended form and outlaw apartments entirely!
Soon the IBC will reach its final intended form and outlaw apartments entirely!
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Fun fact: the "purpose" section of the IRC includes "affordability," while the same for the IBC does not!
October 24, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Fun fact: the "purpose" section of the IRC includes "affordability," while the same for the IBC does not!
Signs of life at the long-stalled K-Mart shopping center refresh project:
October 23, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Signs of life at the long-stalled K-Mart shopping center refresh project:
There's a regionwide (multistate?) PBR outage projected to last for at least another month and not a single broke journalist has gotten to the bottom of it. What kind of society do we even live in anymore?
Local news is definitely dying/dead because I haven’t seen any reporting on the draft PBR shortage in Charlottesville. Ten years ago my colleagues would’ve been on that! No happy meals at millers ☹️
October 21, 2025 at 5:59 AM
There's a regionwide (multistate?) PBR outage projected to last for at least another month and not a single broke journalist has gotten to the bottom of it. What kind of society do we even live in anymore?
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This is very sad news. Eugene was a Charlottesville icon. Civil rights organizer. (He led he fight to desegregate the schools.) Affordable-housing innovator. Exceedingly generous to all with his time and, to the poor, his money. Successful businessman. A kind, loving man. We'll miss him terribly.
Eugene Williams, the local civil rights leader and affordable housing advocate, has died at 97. One of the last cover stories in The Hook was about Eugene Williams and his experience growing up in Jim Crow Charlottesville.
Read more: web.archive.org/web/20200815...
Read more: web.archive.org/web/20200815...
October 20, 2025 at 10:52 PM
This is very sad news. Eugene was a Charlottesville icon. Civil rights organizer. (He led he fight to desegregate the schools.) Affordable-housing innovator. Exceedingly generous to all with his time and, to the poor, his money. Successful businessman. A kind, loving man. We'll miss him terribly.
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“A six-plex could be coming to a neighborhood near you.”
Scary!!!!
Scary!!!!
October 19, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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