timmy
@timczerwienski.bsky.social
Dorchester. Jersey. Housing. Bikes. Pies.
I think my brother is trying to wake a Soviet sleeper agent or something, because he’s stringing together words that no human would say in the course of normal conversation
November 28, 2025 at 2:08 AM
I think my brother is trying to wake a Soviet sleeper agent or something, because he’s stringing together words that no human would say in the course of normal conversation
Stop in on your way to the Rockwell Museum, which is a treat.
November 27, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Stop in on your way to the Rockwell Museum, which is a treat.
This was a potential crisis when they legalized casinos. Then instead of just simply allowing drink specials, they passed a bill that allowed them exclusively in the casinos. The pilgrims would be proud.
November 27, 2025 at 11:00 PM
This was a potential crisis when they legalized casinos. Then instead of just simply allowing drink specials, they passed a bill that allowed them exclusively in the casinos. The pilgrims would be proud.
Didn’t host this year, so I’m headed to the grocery store bright and early tomorrow morning to grab a soup bird
November 27, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Didn’t host this year, so I’m headed to the grocery store bright and early tomorrow morning to grab a soup bird
I don’t know if I totally disagree, but I’m just here to boost “Baffler Meal.” Is Willy Nelson on any floats?
November 27, 2025 at 3:53 PM
I don’t know if I totally disagree, but I’m just here to boost “Baffler Meal.” Is Willy Nelson on any floats?
I hope everyone has a song that hits the same as “Turnpike Divides” does to a kid from North Jersey.
November 27, 2025 at 12:29 AM
I hope everyone has a song that hits the same as “Turnpike Divides” does to a kid from North Jersey.
This was bananas to me. I’ve got another thread in me about the problem of using abutter testimony as a proxy for finding there’s no “substantial detriment to the public good” in a variance decision.
November 26, 2025 at 2:27 PM
This was bananas to me. I’ve got another thread in me about the problem of using abutter testimony as a proxy for finding there’s no “substantial detriment to the public good” in a variance decision.
We exist in an in-between space that’s the worst of all worlds: it’s difficult but not impossible to build, there are no rules that carry any weight, and nobody actually perceives there’s a problem.
November 26, 2025 at 3:23 AM
We exist in an in-between space that’s the worst of all worlds: it’s difficult but not impossible to build, there are no rules that carry any weight, and nobody actually perceives there’s a problem.
The obvious corollary to this is that if you, as a town, are inclined to want to approve buildings that encroach on the rear setback (as in, you’re always granting discretionary approvals), then you should change your rules to allow that sort of thing.
November 26, 2025 at 3:23 AM
The obvious corollary to this is that if you, as a town, are inclined to want to approve buildings that encroach on the rear setback (as in, you’re always granting discretionary approvals), then you should change your rules to allow that sort of thing.
If the rules say you can’t build in the rear setback, proposals that encroach on the rear setback should be denied. Ditto for density and height and whatever other dimensional requirements.
November 26, 2025 at 3:23 AM
If the rules say you can’t build in the rear setback, proposals that encroach on the rear setback should be denied. Ditto for density and height and whatever other dimensional requirements.
Ms. Witt accurately identifies the need for feedback (making “consequences of the Council’s legislative choices visible”). Feedback here doesn’t mean information or education; it means the things that are designed to happen actually happen.
November 26, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Ms. Witt accurately identifies the need for feedback (making “consequences of the Council’s legislative choices visible”). Feedback here doesn’t mean information or education; it means the things that are designed to happen actually happen.
Because some (sometimes even a lot of) development eventually gets approved, people assume the system is working the way it’s meant to. The real truth is confined to a handful of permitting attorneys, developers, and YIMBY activists
November 26, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Because some (sometimes even a lot of) development eventually gets approved, people assume the system is working the way it’s meant to. The real truth is confined to a handful of permitting attorneys, developers, and YIMBY activists
They also don’t know that the permitting regime they have is basically making ad hoc decisions based not on clearly articulated regulations, but on economic development needs, personal relationships, political pressure, straight corruption, or a host of other reasons of varying legitimacy.
November 26, 2025 at 3:23 AM
They also don’t know that the permitting regime they have is basically making ad hoc decisions based not on clearly articulated regulations, but on economic development needs, personal relationships, political pressure, straight corruption, or a host of other reasons of varying legitimacy.
What the outside world doesn’t know, unless they try to make an illegal improvement themselves, is that their town has a set of land use regulations that isn’t delivering what it promises, because it promises something that property owners don’t want to build and the town may not even want.
November 26, 2025 at 3:23 AM
What the outside world doesn’t know, unless they try to make an illegal improvement themselves, is that their town has a set of land use regulations that isn’t delivering what it promises, because it promises something that property owners don’t want to build and the town may not even want.
In a system that relies on variances, special permits, aldermanic privilege, and other discretionary approvals, development actually does happen. So the outside world sees cranes and construction crews out in the neighborhoods, and complaints about the system from savvy advocates ring hollow.
November 26, 2025 at 3:23 AM
In a system that relies on variances, special permits, aldermanic privilege, and other discretionary approvals, development actually does happen. So the outside world sees cranes and construction crews out in the neighborhoods, and complaints about the system from savvy advocates ring hollow.
Came here to say this. Don’t confuse Nollan and Dolan and you’re 3/4 of the way to a passing grade.
November 23, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Came here to say this. Don’t confuse Nollan and Dolan and you’re 3/4 of the way to a passing grade.
Crossing over the turnpike extension bridge from exit 14 to get back to Bayonne, you’d always smell whatever the Passaic Valley Sewerage Commissioners facility was giving off. Not sewage. Kind of inky? Anyway, smelled like home
November 21, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Crossing over the turnpike extension bridge from exit 14 to get back to Bayonne, you’d always smell whatever the Passaic Valley Sewerage Commissioners facility was giving off. Not sewage. Kind of inky? Anyway, smelled like home
“I’m not tired. I feel like I can stay up the whole entire night” - my kid, literally just now
November 15, 2025 at 1:44 AM
“I’m not tired. I feel like I can stay up the whole entire night” - my kid, literally just now
So glad this piece brought up Edith Zimmerman’s Chris Evans profile. Do you remember how much people freaked out about that one?
November 15, 2025 at 1:39 AM
So glad this piece brought up Edith Zimmerman’s Chris Evans profile. Do you remember how much people freaked out about that one?