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mottsmith.bsky.social
Co-Founder of Amped Kitchens (http://ampedkitchens.com). Board Chair, Council of Infill Builders. Vice Chair, LA City Small Business Comm. Adjunct prof of Real Estate Dev, USC's Price School. Personal account. Posts are solely mine. Follow ≠ endorsement.
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What will it to take to rebuild after the #wildfires? Money, yes, but also a new City Hall approach to permits. Important, says @mottsmith.bsky.social, is to "consciously change our city culture from a culture of ‘no’ to a culture of ‘yes.'” More for @lamag.bsky.social. lamag.com/news/build-b...

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Want to streamline building permits in fire-ravaged L.A.? If we do nothing else, we should do this. Offer architect/engineer self-certification for single family and small commercial building permits

submitted 47 days ago • 1 comment

Someone on Bluesky is impersonating me. Please report this to the moderators if you have a moment.

submitted 70 days ago • 1 comment

I'm good at a lot of stuff. But one thing I am not good at is scheduling meetings using my phone calendar while flying over new time zones.

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

Is Google trying to tell me something?

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

WTF: There is higher frequency of bullet trains between Tokyo and Kyoto than on any Metro subway or light rail line in Los Angeles

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

Who's done the best writing and research on California's dearth of condos near jobs? I'm looking for articles by reasonably neutral parties, like journalists or academics without financial ties to either side of the debates between builders & attorneys.

submitted 87 days ago • 3 comments

California Asm. Ward has introduced a bill to ask the state to study allowing buildings up to 10 units in the IRC (these keep getting more ambitious…), and also to study cost drivers in multifamily codes and standards generally leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNa...

submitted 87 days ago • 1 comment

Something that you find among a lot of building code reformers and few code insiders: foreign language skills and a lot of interest and experience in other countries

submitted 88 days ago • 6 comments

The UPS person made my day today.

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

ULA is poorly designed - just what you’d expect from performative activists who think trying to understand policy makes you a neoliberal tool. A knock-on effect is reduction of assessment resets which only happen upon sales under Prop 13, so it’s possible the net revenue effect of ULA is negative.

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

New Measure ULA data drop! Just got all LA County transactions above $1 million, back to 1/1/2020 -- about 160,000 data points. It lets us compare what happened in LA under Measure ULA to Culver City under its Measure RE transfer tax. The difference is staggering.

submitted 95 days ago • 5 comments

I just learned about something called polyvagal theory. It posits that our level of physiological arousal as regulated by the vagus nerve -- calm, fight-or-flight, etc. --drives how we feel, perceive events and relate to others. In other words, what happens in the vagus doesn't stay in the vagus.

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

Holy sh*t. Why isn't Mountain View building housing? Maybe because they tried to charge $295,000 PER UNIT with this builder's remedy project. And because the final settlement was $34,000 per unit -- still outrageous.

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