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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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this one is percent decline in population density w/in 1-mile radius of center of downtown or 2000 density / 1960 density.
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My acceptance of on-street vehicle size is on a U-shaped curve.
Bicycles are perfect, compact cars are marginally acceptable, SUVs and emotional support trucks should be phased out, but buses, streetcars, and trams are wonderful.
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at least theyre less likely to run you over in a bus
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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