Transportation planner trying to do a little good in a rapidly warming world. 🇺🇲🇮🇹
Long Beach, California
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This is fantastic news! Homes for thousands of people!
So far 12 builder's remedy projects have been submitted in Santa Monica since the Housing Element fell out of compliance. These essentially get rubber stamp approval through the state (I'll have more info in my story tomorrow). One of them is 15 stories & 2,400 units.
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An absolutely insane day for @cayimby. The California legislature passed: (1) AB 2011, legalizing mixed-income multifamily in nearly all commercial areas; (2) AB 2097, effectively ending parking mandates near transit; and (3) AB 2221, which further streamlines ADU permitting.
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This was a parking lot less than 10 years ago in the heart of a major American city.
Now, it's a beautiful apartment building with more than 300 homes, a grocery store, small retail spaces, & bike share, in a neighborhood that desperately needed it. We can still do great things!
This vehicle is so damn cool. I thought the company that was developing these (@aptera_motors) was dead, but apparently they're alive and taking preorders.
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Where will climate migrants go in the US? Maps by @PLACEInitiativ attempt to answer that question. cnu.org/publicsquare/2022/04…
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There was a lot of handwringing over whether SB 9 would work with all its rules and exceptions, but a mere four months into it being law, folks are already making it work. This could soon be the standard path to homeownership in California. – at Los Angeles, CA
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America doesn't have a shortage of gas.
We have a shortage of bike lanes, five minute cities, and safe pedestrian infrastructure.
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I need like a big sign to shove at politicians that just says "When normal people talk about 'Affordable housing' they mean affordable market rate housing, not subsidized housing" They want buying a place to be achievable, not an apartment subsidized by government or neighbours.
This is extremely good design. Bring this to every New England city.
Housing can be affordable, beautiful, fun, sustainable, & diverse. It might take a bit more thoughtfulness, but more people around the country are proving it can be done very well!
22 affordable homes (&retail) replaced a vacant lot, designed by Union Studio, developed by SWAP
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Relative road wear is exponentially correlated with vehicle weight. Taxing large SUVs at 2-4 times that of a small car (like the gas tax does) doesn't make up for the damage they do.
Currently, small vehicle owners subsidize the wear and tear caused by larger vehicles.
So sad. Trackless trolleys are better than battery electric buses, especially for a cold climate like Boston's.
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Bizarre indeed. Fascinating thread about the Charleroi Metro.
Recently it was announced that, after decades of neglect, the Charleroi Metro is getting its 5th line built and trams renovated.
A breeze of fresh air for a "metro" that seems frozen in the 80s.
Let me show you some pics of Belgium's most bizarre public transport network 🚋🚇🇧🇪
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It’s becoming clear as the science gets better every year: if no action (or even acting too slowly) is taken to immediately, drastically #ReduceEmissions, it’s likely by 2100 our society -possibly humanity itself, will collapse. What will this graph look like in even 10 yrs? 😳
"There is no new normal coming. We are going to experience a sort of standing wave of discontinuity...We’re going to have to keep relearning, over and over again. That is simply one of the costs of having destabilized the planet." alexsteffen.substack.com/p/d…
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