The San Francisco Planning Commission must be nuked from orbit. --- The 1960 Comprehensive Plan and its consequences have been a disaster for Philadelphians
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People were leaving cities before the crime wave happened. Cities were crappy places to live in during the mid century. Those with means to commute into the city via cars left. What was left were hollow cities with the middle and upper income people needed to make cities thrive.
The reason why economists today aren't Marxists is largely due to the fall of the Soviet Union. Soviet economists tried quite hard to do central planning and failed. The whole project fell apart, like many other projects in econ have ended.
MV=PY is an accounting identity. Demand side recessions are caused by fluctuations in V - call it animal spirits - so the Fed can smooth PY by changing M.
HK has a fixed change rate with USD, so changed in monetary policy impacts inflation there and subsequently the real economy
Sutro Baths should be rebuilt in the same location and be built exactly the same as it was.
Decline and decay is a choice.
Connie Chan was the sole "No" vote on this legislation btw.
The SHADE Act has been passed into law today by Mayor Lurie!
Over the past 10 years, over 2000 units of housing have been blocked or delayed because NIMBYs said the housing would cast a "shadow".
So we're done letting red tape cast shade over our housing future. The SHADE Act will no longer allow shadows be used as a basis for environmental appeals. It will save between 3-9 months on some environmental reviews and up to $25,000 per project in reduced staff, consultant, and administrative costs.
We can protect our parks, respect our environment, and welcome more neighbors. We don’t have to choose. It’s time to let housing projects see the light of day.
Thank you to all those who helped turn this into law. My cosponsors Matt Dorsey, Danny Sauter, and Myrna Melgar. My legislative aide Raynell Cooper, all the incredible members of the Planning Department including Lisa Gibson, Lisa Gluckstein, Ryan Shum,Kei Zushi, Tania Sheyer, Debra Dwyer, members of the Mayors Office including Ned Segal and Adam Thongsavat, and our drafting attorney Andrea Ruiz-Esquide.
The main YIMBY argument is that the housing crisis is caused by restrictive zoning in *high income areas* of cities, and that displacement is due to it being illegal to build in those neighborhoods.
The ur purpose of zoning in America is making income restricted neighborhoods.
Simpler times
It's summer break and the family computer is finally free. You're chopping willows in Draynor and praying nobody picks up the phone and kills your dial-up. Someone in Varrock has been typing "buying gf" for three hours straight. You've got 80K gp in the bank and you're pretty sure you're rich.
ALT Players are gathered in the game RuneScape near a stone building, with several lined up by bushes and others near a body of water. Some characters have speech bubbles, and the area includes items like logs and agricultural plots.
Cory in San Francisco retweeted
This is the note you find in an Umbrella lab before you’re attacked by a zombie dog.
JUST IN: Palmer Luckey's genetically modified military dog startup, Warhound, comes out of stealth, aiming to create enhanced canines for the U.S. military.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
This is NOT Palmer's company at all, his company Anduril is only supplying the tech for the dogs, and this is a wholly owed Collosal entiity
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This guy is trying to justify reopening 2 miles of road that abuts the Pacific Ocean because plumbers and locksmiths need it to do their job.
Vital Professions that rely on driving: Plumbers, electricians, locksmiths, appliance repair technicians, gardeners, house cleaners, delivery people, first responders, garbage collection, and countless others.
So if you're one of these YIMBY Urbanist Abundance bros trying to do away with roads, you're forgetting that even if you don't drive, your entire cushy lifestyle relies on people who drive.
Without these working-class drivers, your life would totally suck!
Coming from Philadelphia, I saw how useful the Center City Commuter tunnel was. The idea that San Francisco, the best city on the West Coast, shouldn't have something similar where Caltrain goes directly into FiDi, is asinine.
I see my criticism of the $8.25 billion tunnel between Caltrain and Salesforce triggered some folks.
Here's an interesting idea from 10 years ago: Make alterations so that Caltrain vehicles can run on Muni tracks. sf.streetsblog.org/2017/06/1…
