humanecosystem.bsky.social
Cities for choice in housing, neighborhood, transpo; abundant access, opportunity & upward mobility. Formerly WalkableDFW
Prof of Sustainable Development @SMU; Board of Directors Dallas Area Rapid Transit; Founder: THE.City & the American Dream
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oh yeah? make the experience worse is your solution?
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she made her bed(s)
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or I'm just hopelessly oblivious
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no doubt. the ensemble matters.
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bad data from 2002-2010
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zeroing in on Chicago specifically
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looking at the opposite end of the downtown/metro ratio where the cities have a much lower proportion of regional jobs, here are the cities with strong CBD job growth: Asheville, Austin, Portland ME, Huntsville AL:
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I need to add 3-mile historic job data, but there might be some interesting takeaways; mashing up 2002-22 CBD job growth (x-axis) vs. sorted column of proportion of jobs w/in 3-mile radius compared to metro-wide jobs (y):
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This is for 1-mile radius 2002-2022. There is some noise in onthemap data b/c it uses tax data for location of the jobs that may be remote or may use the school district hq rather than the school location. Also, Massachusetts and a few others have no job data from 2002.
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Let me see what data I have. I pulled changes in job # for 1- and 3-mile radii around downtowns for over 140 cities. the question then becomes whats the ratio of central area job growth vs regional job growth.
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had this been a marketing effort, they would have had her using the app rather than buying a paper ticket.
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City Planning Commission meetings run 12 hours and have a horrible backlog because they are effectively writing a new code for every single project.
In a perfect world CPC would only be dealing with SUPs and Variances.
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Grok, is it business-friendly to have such a glaringly awful zoning code that you have to negotiate your own code for two years and develop elaborate shared parking formulae to reduce parking # when you could just have a decent and predictable code that let's people build good things in the city?
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based on your posts I am not sure what can be done with Seattle planning staff besides early retirement packages.
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sure but lets give everybody more space within more density and let everyone live in luxury
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my wife would strangle you to death over this.
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Jeff, what's next for you?
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also, crime tracks with highway proximity. they are used as getaways.
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because the higher order levels of govt have refused to do their job or prioritize wasting money on negative ROI investments rather rhan the best investments which is into human capital...another word for people.
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a few years back I went to Barcelona's expo center. Know where it was? Two trains and a thirty minute ride from the city center.
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If the goal was and truly is economic development, any rationale would point to getting it out of downtown entirely. Use the HOT taxes to rebuild it where it can aid revitalization on a DART stop from downtown like Cedars or Fair Park.