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CBIA (whose members mostly build detached SFHs and a small amount of condos in urban brownfields) stated that current construction defect law is working for their members and didn't want to rock the boat. For context, 3% of new MFH in California is owner-occupied.
Housing shortages are actually housing spillovers. Everyone needs a home. So when we don't build, demand doesn't evaporate—it floods into other neighborhoods, other cities, other metro areas or even whole regions. 🧵
The “Kosciusko Stub” is bad & illustrative of low-hanging fruit in DTLA. This exists to allow motorists to avoid a couple turns; it isolates a transit stop near DTLA’s Cultural Mecca & instead of a welcoming tourist/ped plaza w/ coffee carts, food trucks & seating we get… this.
There's a strange dichotomy in tweets like this, and the perspective more generally. In the world envisioned, rich people are highly mobile, but no one else moves at all. Rich people therefore can't move into middle- and lower-tier homes when other people move out of them.
Photo of the "unique character" that must be "protected," which is somehow always the same as the unique character seen in every other city
Photo of the "unique character" that must be "protected," which is somehow always the same as the unique character seen in every other city https://t.co/VFsKLvgpze
It's incredible watching leadership in high-cost, low-supply cities continue opposing state housing reforms on the argument that local governments are best suited to solving the problem. You've been saying the same thing for 10+ years! Show me the evidence! We're done waiting.
It's incredible watching leadership in high-cost, low-supply cities continue opposing state housing reforms on the argument that local governments are best suited to solving the problem. You've been saying the same thing for 10+ years! Show me the evidence! We're done waiting.
Less than 1,400 units of housing were permitted in the San Francisco metro area last quarter, the lowest amount since Q1 2012. Total disaster For context, metro Austin permitted 8,400 units and metro DC permitted 5,600 over the same time period. Even metro Omaha permitted 1,900.
I was in Osaka only a few days, but saw a lot more bicyclists than in Tokyo. My intuition about this is that it's because Tokyo a) has a better transit network, and b) is denser, such that even bicycles take up too much space. Am I on the right track? And what are other reasons?
I'm hoping to do a podcast episode summarizing some interesting urbanism-related facts and policies in Tokyo (and to a lesser extent Japan as a whole), as well as some of my own insights from this trip. Please share anything you think is worth digging into, positive or negative!
I'm hoping to do a podcast episode summarizing some interesting urbanism-related facts and policies in Tokyo (and to a lesser extent Japan as a whole), as well as some of my own insights from this trip. Please share anything you think is worth digging into, positive or negative!
With Brightline West breaking ground, I want to go over why the nation’s first operational HSR (250+ km/h) will include two stops in the relatively unpopulated desert & not quite make it all the way to LA, as it’s a good lesson about building in the US today🧵
With Brightline West breaking ground, I want to go over why the nation’s first operational HSR (250+ km/h) will include two stops in the relatively unpopulated desert & not quite make it all the way to LA, as it’s a good lesson about building in the US today🧵
Yesterday in a committee of the Legislature, the California Coastal Commission defended its decision to block a new small apartment in this area because it is "a naturally affordable community." RT if you cannot afford this.
2) Parking Reform 🤝 Georgism Little-used or unused parking lots are often a vehicle for speculators to sit on urban land long-term. Property tax reform (split-rate or land value tax) can deter speculation and get this land back into productive uses, like housing.
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6K Followers 1K Following point access blocks. cost rentals. orinda is a policy failure. lawyer. union. price parking and roads.
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@holz_bau @ShaneDPhillips I'm not aware of any 4-story single-exit buildings that have actually been built there, though if Burlington is now zoning for them, maybe we'll get some soon
@holz_bau @ShaneDPhillips Here's the code history. They currently allow 4 stories by deleting Chapter 10 of the IBC and deferring to NFPA 101 instead, so that's what you'd want to look at historically (and then make sure that NFPA 101 was allowing 4 stories back then) firesafety.vermont.gov/buildingcode/c…
With large parts of the city zoned for single family zoning and remaining parking minimums, I think you could make the case that Philly's land-use regulations are more suburban that Burlington, VT. And sure you can argue with me, but pretty embarrassing that it's even debatable!
Last month the city council of Burlington, VT (pop. 45,000) unanimously approved major zoning reforms. Now allowed on all resi parcels: fourplexes or more, 3-4 stories, better setbacks and lot coverage, no unit limits for denser zones. They also eliminated parking reqs last year.
@ShaneDPhillips i don't know the history here but at least since 2015. @MarketUrbanism knows more
vermont's building code also allows 4 story point access blocks.
Last month the city council of Burlington, VT (pop. 45,000) unanimously approved major zoning reforms. Now allowed on all resi parcels: fourplexes or more, 3-4 stories, better setbacks and lot coverage, no unit limits for denser zones. They also eliminated parking reqs last year.
My SIL offered to drive me to Trader Joe's because of the lengthy shopping list. I told her it would fit. TJ Checkers were impressed, one accompanied me to bike to take pictures to send his manager to show why they need better bike racks. Eggs sitting on bubble wrap under purse
It's called the while west because it happened a while ago
Indeed. If Will Stancil had a spine, he would adopt brave positions like "Biden should simply activate the brain implant that makes Bibi do his bidding" and "all new housing should be affordable, but also nobody's taxes should go up"
“My position on the war in Gaza is its horrible and I want it to end as soon as possible” is not actually a position anymore than saying your position on housing is “it’s good and there should be more of it”
Earlier today, @GovWesMoore signed the Housing Expansion and Affordability Act into law. I had the chance to shake his hand afterwards. He said "This is a big first step. But we're not done." And now I need to see about getting a pen framed.
Austin's min lot size reform is great but remember: Never accept the claim that a city has "run out of land" The roof of every apartment building is land. The roof of every library is land. The roof of every school is land. Get building.
Austin: Let's reduce the minimum lot size to 2k sqf... NYC: Let's build 20k sqf on top of an existing building with a cantilever..
I love how much negative attention @TheCACoast is getting for the Del Mar ADU they rejected. Posting to policy pipeline remains alive and well.
“But amid the state’s housing crisis, some legislators and housing advocates are increasingly fed up with this status quo, arguing that the 12-member commission’s powers have expanded too far.” sfgate.com/la/article/cal…
Former Housing Poster Turned Serious Lawyer Who Doesn’t Post Anymore @AlexFischCC making an appearance in Sacramento!
People will really moan about the aesthetics of new housing and then want to preserve the ugliest buildings from the past
This came up at the ICC hearing on our single-stair change – “We haven’t heard developers say they want this, could you get them to write a white paper?” The thing is, YIMBYs are not developer shills, and we often have divergent interests from established developer trade groups.
CBIA (whose members mostly build detached SFHs and a small amount of condos in urban brownfields) stated that current construction defect law is working for their members and didn't want to rock the boat. For context, 3% of new MFH in California is owner-occupied.
LA Metro rail ridership is only back to 70% of pre-covid, while bus ridership is back to 85%. I would hypothesize that the rail ridership was somewhat more 9-5 office worker oriented than the bus ridership, and there's still a lot of WFH happening in downtown LA.
Metro transit ridership keeps growing steadily - as of March 2024 total monthly riders increased for 16 straight months - comparing same month year-to-year. Bus ridership getting near pre-COVID levels. Rail ridership also growing/recovering.
"Do stuff and then blog about it" remains one of the most underrated pieces of career advice
An absolutely fantastic way to increase this is to start a blog. Almost all the cool fun stuff in my professional life for me has come from doing stuff then blogging about it. henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/search-query
Please look at what has happened in California before we go down this path
Who is going to introduce legislation to allow the citizens of Chicago to vote on public funding requests over $1B? $500M? What petition do we need to sign to make this happen? It’s not the Bears proposal alone. We need better citizen led mechanisms for finances in our city.
Still deranged for CAR to oppose a vehicle to finance condo construction, which will result in some product they can help sale in the future.
Given that condo developments can do direct presales without a realtor I suspect this is less about consumer protection for CAR than limiting product that doesn't require a middle man realtor.
But it's embarrassing that legislators are preparing to drain billions in public money for down payment assistance (with non-existent targeting) that could go elsewhere when there are serious kinks in the system for supplying attainable infill condos that could be fixed for $0.
CBIA (whose members mostly build detached SFHs and a small amount of condos in urban brownfields) stated that current construction defect law is working for their members and didn't want to rock the boat. For context, 3% of new MFH in California is owner-occupied.
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