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dereksagehorn.bsky.social
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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I appreciate that my comrades don't willfully misread and steelman my bad tweets, but instead dunk on them

submitted 2 hours ago • 2 comments

Social movements can and do change but it is strange that the modern Anti-Monopoly nonprofit eco-system is pro-tariff when late 19th C./early 20th C. anti monopolists were adamantly opposed to tariffs.

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

Finished Richard White’s “The Republic for Which It Stands” this morning. For Riis “[r]ace determined people’s attributes…” and thus ranking of races Riis (himself a Danish immigrant) “[t]he one thing you shall vainly ask for… in the chief city of America [NYC] is a distinctly American community.”

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Currently reading: The Secret Boss of California: The Life and High Times of Art Samish, Art Samish and Bob Thomas 1971.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Was just talking to a rugby buddy this afternoon about how the Bay Area State of Mind account on X spread a false rumor about Fenton’s Creamery closing on Election Day in 2024. Turns out the owner of that account, Hugo Garcia, has been a contractor for a pro-Loren Taylor’s PAC in the mayors race.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Moving utilities for what is essentially a colored bus lane is a pretty absurd things to do, IMO. We don't do it for regular bus lanes, why should we do it for a BRT? If some utility works need to be performed on the bus lanes, the bus will be diverted for a block as we do for every kind of traffic

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

TIL that the people who have filed the most (dozens) of discretionary review requests appealing planning entitlements and building permits for new construction, remodels and additions in San Francisco over the past 15 years are a retired Chevron general counsel and his wife who live in Noe Valley.

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

I'm in the @sfchronicle.com today with @muhammadspeaks.bsky.social on how homeowners could profit from abundance instead of scarcity

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

KQED segment on West/Northside housing element rezonings this AM. The report featured the S.F. Planning lead and 3 interviews from “community.” All community members say S.F. needs housing and “smart growth” but have concerns with rezonings.

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

The entirety of US land use, regulatory, environmental review, finance, building code, material, labor, transportation, and infrastructure policy regimes are structured to optimize for detached greenfield SFH development and the NYT is treating this status quo as a bold new policy direction.

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

Really enjoyed Derek Thompson’s statement that we need a lot more “bottleneck detectives” trying to figure why infrastructure, housing, welfare programs and other public services cost more and take longer to deliver than peer jurisdictions.

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments