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Stop banning apartments. People who live in apartments are not “parasites” as the Supreme Court proclaimed in Euclid v. Ambler.
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Absolutely right. Many regulations are bad faith, antisocial regulations. For example, zoning exists because the Supreme Court thought that people who live in apartment buildings are “parasites” (their word) on communities.
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Sounds like you are reinforcing that. Do you trust the messengers? If not, why not?
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Sorry what? No it doesn’t.
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Incredible arrogance and callousness on the part of the officials. What is even their theory of how this serves and protects the public?
Thanks for sharing.
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Not a Somerville thing. The MA plumbing board disapproved of them in Oct 2023. Cambridge hasn't installed any new ones since then either.
www.mass.gov/doc/pl-minut...
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They provided zero explanation for what section of the code they think it violates? Did anyone ask?
I wonder if the Legislature knows that some random amendment they adopted to IBC is being used as justification to kill public toilets…
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The unfortunate problem with runnels is that they conflict with the needs of others who require support getting up and down stairs. The Europeans have better runnels because they deprioritize accessibility. 🤷♂️
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It could make plentiful transit much easier to run! Somebody needs to figure out how to recognize people waiting at the stop and how to tell if anybody wants that bus or the other one behind it, and then when to deploy the ramp and how to secure wheelchairs without an operator… It’s a lot.
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Genuine suggestion: Maybe talk to some not-for-profit developers.
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It has a Latin ‘N’?
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Generally supportive. Can we at least dare to dream of an accessible future though? Too ambitious?
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Increasingly hard to see daylight between the City of Boston and the current federal administration when it comes to transportation projects.
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Installation of a fake but very prominent telescope.
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Sorry, who is “they” in this example? The party ran a primary that Markey won easily. Are you against primaries?
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That’s right! Single family zoning defeats the Fair Housing Act’s accessibility requirements. It’s morally bankrupt.
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Zoning is not okay.
Zoning is not ethical.
Any society working towards justice needs to leave this barbaric practice behind.
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Did they or did they not slash federal funding for cancer research? Am I being lied to or are they monsters? It’s really one or the other.
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My father used to listen to Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh every day. My mother was an anti-choice Texan. Now they both vote reliably for the Democrats and often call their Republican reps to complain. Some people will have success.
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I listened to it and I did not hear the conversation the way you are portraying it and am genuinely baffled by your takeaways.
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NIMBYism — largely fueled by progressives in blue cities & states — is badly harming our country & its psyche. It reduces economic productivity, traps people in places with little to no opportunity, & fuels the cynicism & despair that’s led us to such toxic politics today.
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Could you butcher an entire currency?
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When we refuse to accommodate newcomers in high-opportunity Blue cities, we exile people to red states where their civil rights are endangered or nonexistent.
Forcing trans people to live in Texas and Florida because you don’t want to look at apartments is profoundly immoral.
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Driving is a choice for a lot of people in bigger cities, one that people continue to make even with alternatives. People do other risky things because they enjoy them like surfing or mountain climbing or having unprotected sex. Knowing the magnitude of risk is really important!
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It kind of seems less dangerous than driving a car though? The article only got into discussing the degree of risk at the very end and didn’t provide any reference points. I think people should have the information in a way that’s easy to weigh against other risky behaviors.
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They did not.
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Kind of looks like a sober cost/benefit analysis. How is that “antivax”?
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This was not a part of the conversation in the podcast. They’re trying to grapple with a number of issues and how to reach the public more effectively. I recommend reading or listening and then reacting to what was actually said.
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I read the whole thing. I don’t see how you came to your conclusion.
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I’ve talked with several people at agencies that are doing pilots of foreign BEBs. We may be at the tipping point where all the strings attached to federal money makes it too expensive to accept.