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Interested in figuring out how to build better housing, transit and cities. Construction lawyer for CAHSR; advocate for East Bay for Everyone. Oakland.
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Total mismatch between: 1. The impending cuts to state capacity in California at state and local level & pending legislation to make it easier to build transit infrastructure 2. People having incredibly abstract debates about who does and does not support increasing state capacity

submitted 22 minutes ago • 1 comment

Hope everyone is excited for the week’s biggest housing news: Oakland Planning Commission considering objective design standards for 1-3 story multifamily and 1-4 family unit housing on Wednesday afternoon.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Feels like it should be kinda a scandal that due to local government dysfunction the federal government regularly pays for utility relocation that states are supposed to receive for free.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

I wonder what's driving this somewhat-larger-than-usual single bore diameter - it's clearly not the train envelope. Min. plenum area? Conservative/uninventive antenna/signal clearances? Excavation volume increases with the square of the radius, so it's odd from a team trying not to lose on price.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Important to remember that reforming specific aspects of housing, infrastructure and mobility is the actual work. Pundits on both sides who abstract housing et al, into an instrument for re-litigating the 2016 Dem primary are doing something else.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

If you talk to John Havrilesko about his experience with city planners, you'll get an idea of why most condos look the same. More than once he's wanted to do something completely within code and has been him no just because the one bureaucrat he was dealing with didn't like the look.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

All else being equal, do we think middle class people are more likely to take transit or have lower VMT if they live in new homes in Rockridge or Tracy Hills? Bc exurban locations like the latter are building >10x as many homes as inner suburban rail stations. calmatters.org/housing/2025...

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

76 degrees and car traffic to access Roberts Rec Pool in the Oakland Hills is backed up all the way to Joaquin Miller Road. East Bay Regional Parks District needs to invest in more pools in the Oakland flats where people live and can access without a car.

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

There’s no research that suggests rent control on older buildings prevents new housing construction.

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

Oakland Planning Staff has doubled down on their proposal to prohibit exterior access corridors for 1-3 story MFH streamlined approvals via Objective Design Standards ahead of 6/4 Planning Commission hearing. cao-94612.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/documents/It...

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

Fun Fact: the people who discovered that Marc Andreessen was personally emailing and organizing Atherton neighbors to oppose multi-family/low-income planning obligations in that city were grassroots YIMBY activists in San Mateo County.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Fun fact: Italy generally does not define residential typologies via planning regulations. Residential uses are very broadly defined, and there is no such thing as specific mandates for single family, plexes, townhouses, or apartments.

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments