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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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AB 1070 has been introduced by @AsmChrisWard: 1) No payments to transit board members unless they use transit system at least 1 hour or 4 trips per month 2) Transit boards must add 2 non-voting members, 1 represents riders and 1 represents employees leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTe...

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BART's legacy elevators require service every two weeks whereas modern elevators require service every two months. bart.legistar.com/LegislationD...

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Oakland would have such a construction boom right now if building for-sale multifamily was legally possible right now. It would help with the city budget tremendously.

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I suspect studying replacement of mainline staff engineers with consultants would correlate with similar cost overruns and schedule delays.

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No action on a condo warranty program to address defect risk in California in 2025. Instead the legislature will consider a variety of demand subsidies for homeownership that will not expand supply.

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Throwback moto youtu.be/Kz17FpHULwA?...

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California's transit permitting timelines are out of control. LA Metro's North Hollywood BRT is six years behind schedule, escalating the project cost to over half a billion dollars. For a bus!! SB 445 will speed up this process and give transit agencies more authority over their own projects.

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Excellent new legislation. In Canada: - Quebec’s Bill 137 got Montreal’s REM from planning to revenue service in under 6 years. - Ontario’s Building Transit Faster Act took the Ontario Line from concept to construction in 2 years. Permitting reforms matter if you care about timelines + costs!

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> However, this requires abandoning the project-driven approach typical of the anglosphere and embracing a more old-fashioned but, I believe, more effective State-led approach made of plans, programs and long-term policy commitments.

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This Donovan/Maltman paper is a comprehensive exegesis of all the hackery by Cam Murray and Tim Helm in their critiques the Auckland Unitary Plan upzoning and its impacts on rents. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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From Clarence Stein’s “Towards New Towns for America”: Sunnyside Gardens 1/2 family homes and early single stair apartments all had a standard depth of 28’ 4” to maximize cross ventilation and control framing costs.

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Spain identified early in their High Speed program the need to expand their qualified engineering / contractor pool. They managed this by designing and procuring based on existing market capacities — creating many smaller packages to meet and grow market sustainably.

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Transit agencies across California are exposed to years of cost escalation and contractor delay damages because utilities and local governments are externalizing their disorganization in facility design and permitting onto taxpayers.

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