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samalcorn.bsky.social
Housing. Urbanism. Zoning abolitionist. Accessibility Compliance expert. YIMBY. #OverturnEuclid
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If your upzoning excludes the wealthiest parts of your city, you know you’re doing it wrong. Upzoning only shitty places to live (e.g. high-traffic arterial stroads) is a totally unserious way to go about addressing our housing crisis.

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

Listening to the S.F. Board of Supervisors play building code plan checkers right now. It’s truly maddening. What you’re saying there is that as an amateur plan checker, you don’t trust the judgement of the professional plan checkers employed by your municipality. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Wow, Arizona must've had a lot of mentally ill and drug users move to their states during those years: "In Arizona, as rents climbed, homelessness increased by 51.5% statewide from 2017 to 2022, compared with a nationwide increase of 5.7%." www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-...

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

How much has Elon ransacking the FAA depressed air travel? I imagine it wouldn’t be negligible.

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

Colorado's Smart Stair legislation will be appearing before House Transportation and Local Government Committee on March 11. Let's go. leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb25-1...

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

American cities were not built for cars. They were bulldozed for cars.

submitted 26 days ago • 7 comments

Why do people keep using the word “exponential” to describe the difference between two numbers? It’s completely nonsensical.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Building for automobiles rather than humans destroyed our cities.

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

@alanthefisher.bsky.social , this is excellent: youtu.be/a7zS5-NwQOg?...

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

How do we rebuild faster? Barger: Well, you know all those state laws that have passed over the years to make building housing easier and quicker? How about we make sure those don’t apply to the homeowners of Altadena! What a clown.

submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments

Very cool way to go about this! I spoke w Scott Wiener about « rolling upzoning » several years ago but Contextual Upzoning is a much better name for it!

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

How is the continued existence of zoning at all compatible with obligation to affirmatively further fair housing found in the Fair Housing Act?

submitted 29 days ago • 2 comments

CEQA is the law that swallowed CA. A developer who criticized CEQA for adding endless red tape then uses it to challenge a neighboring project. When you give people a leverage tool, they’ll use it — unless you take it away. Let’s take it away & focus CEQA on actual climate action, not NIMBYism.

submitted 31 days ago • 4 comments

Dr. George E. Alcorn, Ph.D. (1940-2024) invented the x-ray spectrometer. He graduated with an bachelor’s degree in physics from Occidental College in 1962, studied atomic and molecular physics at Howard Univ., where he received his master’s degree in 1963 & doctorate in 1967. #BlackHistoryMonth

submitted 33 days ago • 17 comments

Listening again to this War on Cars episode with an interview of Donald Shoup. Rest in peace, Shoup Dogg. Your legacy is strong. thewaroncars.org

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

This is the energy we need right now from the U.S. free press regarding the current administration.

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