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Founding Principal, Mobius Planning || Vice-Chair, CNU-California || Dad Working to build verdant cities that provide community, happiness, and prosperity for all residents.
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This is a lie. Running for office is fucking hard. One of the hardest things I’ve done in my life. The hardest part is that you have a numerical value of the number of people who don’t like you in your community. It took me years to recover. But it’s worth it & we better off if more people did it.

submitted 38 minutes ago • 2 comments

Here are my final Oscar predictions before next weekend's awards ceremony. Absolute blowouts for both supporting actor awards. Anora will be an amazing win if it gets Best Picture with no other Oscar wins (although it didn't win at the SAG, so maybe Conclave wins instead.)

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Tesho was one of the last folks from Twitter that I've missed since coming here. So glad to see him come over. Really enjoyed meeting him a couple of years ago at CNU. I really like his approach to city building. Focused and humble, searching for how he can best improve the lives of his neighbors.

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I got myself the tiniest little router plane. Look at how cute it is!

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

One of the discussion topics when making loans to affordable housing projects that have Project Based Vouchers is what happens if the Section 8 program goes away. I've always thought that was a crazy thing to worry about. Turns out, maybe it wasn't so far outside the realm of possibility.

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I introduced CEQA legislation (SB 607) to avoid CEQA being used to stop new housing & make other smart changes to aspects of CEQA that turn it into a process nightmare that doesn’t always help the environment. SB 607 will help create abundance of the things that make life better & more affordable:🧵

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

I’ve been championing this change for a few years. I even drafted a bill that would do just this & tried to get YIMBY CA behind it. I’m thrilled to see something similar proposed in actual legislation. I hope I had a small part to play in spreading the idea. Now we’ve just got to get it passed!

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It feels like we’re on the verge of bikes being cool again, like BMX in the ‘80s. The delinquents in middle school are all riding bikes these days. It seems they’ve figured out the freedom bikes provide. Next thing you know, we’ll see a remake Rad, the best bike movie in the history of cinema.

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I don’t get why we’re doing this separately from a housing bond. The issues are the same, the goals are the same, the bond measure should be the same. Lower the cost of living and save the environment by building denser housing in our cities and making it easier to move around. It’s all of a piece.

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I appreciate this post so much. I just started learning R because of the original post (and I'm really hitting the limit of what Excel and QGIS can do for me), but learning R is daunting. Posts like this, that walk through exactly how to do something are so incredibly useful as a starting point.

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I hate how housing policy people use “housing units” or just “units” when they’re talking about homes. Simply calling new apartments and houses “homes” resonates with regular people so much better.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Sometimes, it’s necessary to temporarily close a bike lane. However, when a bike & car lane is closed like this, it’s easy to shift the cones a few feet towards the curb to create an improvised bike lane. This provides people on bikes with a place to go that isn’t in front of a car doing 50 mph.

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I’m excited for Will’s new newsletter on how to make our devices work for us, instead of the other way around. I’ve read all of the posts so far & have already found good suggestions to implement. If you’ve found less & less enjoyment from the internet over the years, read Will’s new newsletter.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

This weekend was the BAFTAs and WGA Awards, which gave us a lot more information in the race for this year's Oscars. It's still a blowout by Adrien Brody, Kieran Culkin, and Zoe Saldaña, although the race for Lead Actress has really tightened up.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Thanks, Anaheim PD, for parking directly in front of the library book drop and blocking it for anyone trying to return their books. It really shows how thoughtful you are and how much you care about the residents of our community.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Got the first coat of oil onto my bench. I’m going to do one more each of the next two days. Then, this project that I started last June will be completely finished.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Terrible photo, important data shown at 211 day in #OrangeCounty Housing is the highest need in our community, with over half of everyone reaching out to #211OC in need of housing assistance. - MediCal 54% - Non Medical 48% Everyone needs a safe and affordable place to call home. 🏡 = Health

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

The biggest challenge to removing parking minimums is it doesn't actually reduce the need for parking by itself. Along with removing parking minimums, we need to provide transportation choices so people can get by without a car. Increasing transportation options and reducing parking go hand-in-hand.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

This weekend, I finished drilling all of my dog holes. The first two were a bit rough, and I wasn’t sure my holdfasts were going to work in them, but it mostly worked out ok. The dog hole closest to my leg vice half overlaps with the leg, so it’ll work for some things, but not holdfasts.

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This is absolutely what I mean when I say that there’s no way back, only through this disaster. We can’t go back to politics as usual. The only thing we can do is use the destruction of our government institutions to build them back so that they provide a greater quality of life for all Americans.

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

This is one of the things that makes me feel like we have a very small but meaningful shot at doing another Reconstruction on the other end of this.

submitted 15 days ago • 26 comments

While I agree with this, there are many people who do not. They simply don’t think they have any responsibility to anyone but themselves. These people are wrong and morally bankrupt, but they are many and they vote. It’s the biggest schism in American political life.

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments