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markdinan.bsky.social
East Palo Alto City Councilman & Vice Mayor
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Fun housing event last night in East Palo Alto with Jerusalem Demsas and Ben Metcalf of the Turner Center at Berkeley.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

“Inclusionary zoning” is one of those policies that sounds great at first but then when you look at the actual impact it ends up just being a massive tax on new apartments that exempts single family homes, accomplishing the exact opposite of the intended effect

submitted 31 days ago • 24 comments

www.eventbrite.com/e/lets-talk-... Jerusalem Demsas in East Palo Alto on May 29

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Googlers take Bike to Work Day seriously, as they should. East Palo Alto.

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

epasun.org/lets-open-up... East Palo Alto City Council has long prioritized community health as a goal of the city. As a Member of City Council, I will be proposing a pilot program where we spend ~$1M per year supporting East Palo Alto families by working with the YMCA to expand memberships.

submitted 58 days ago • 1 comment

www.eventbrite.com/e/lets-talk-... East Palo Alto May 29

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

FYI, East Palo Alto has a life expectancy between 75.8 - 81.3 years. I have recently seen people claiming that EPA has a life expectancy of 62 year, 20 years less than other cities in EPA. This data - which is on the city website - is not accurate.

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

Today, the House votes on whether to begin the process of gutting Medicaid, throwing millions off their health care & making it worse for those who remain. Trump says he doesn’t want to cut Medicaid, but he’s letting the GOP push this. As usual, he’s lying. All to pay for tax cuts for the rich.

submitted 113 days ago • 0 comments

Car crashes have been the leading cause of child traumatic injury and death—by far—for decades. The ratio of crash injuries* to gun injuries is ~33:1. Most crash injuries and deaths occur while doing an ordinary thing. * Trips to emergency room. Does not count non ED injuries.

submitted 120 days ago • 2 comments

Over @urbaninstitute.bsky.social, my new research on the financial feasibility of small-scale apartment buildings. Right now, high land costs & high debt costs combine to make duplexes & triplexes really difficult to build. Cities need to enable 5, 6, 7+ unit buildings if they want more housing.

submitted 126 days ago • 7 comments

Donald shoup literally started a movement that gave people the language, evidence, and motivation to push back against a half century of bad parking policy destroying our cities. RIP king. I’ll never stop fighting to eliminate parking mandates 🫡

submitted 130 days ago • 1 comment

RIP Donald Shoup

submitted 131 days ago • 0 comments

@theworldindex.bsky.social East Palo Alto this morning

submitted 131 days ago • 0 comments

Conor Dougherty's history of the YIMBY movement if it followed the same naming conventions as the Fast and the Furious movie franchise: Golden Gates 2 Golden 2 Gates Golden Gates: Tokyo Zoning Golden & Gates Golden Five Golden & Gates 6 Gates 7 The Fate of the Gates G9 Golden X

submitted 132 days ago • 4 comments