BloodyHell Posted January 12, 2021 Share Posted January 12, 2021 4 hours ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said: This could be huge Da Whites (tm) gonna be mad! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uaarkson Posted January 12, 2021 Share Posted January 12, 2021 7 hours ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said: This could be huge Best news of the year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted January 14, 2021 Share Posted January 14, 2021 Biden no longer taking Amtrak to inauguration amid security concerns WWW.CNN.COM President-elect Joe Biden will no longer take the Amtrak to Washington next week to be sworn in as president, two officials familiar with the planning tell CNN, a sudden change that comes... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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b_m_b_m_b_m Posted January 18, 2021 Share Posted January 18, 2021 I'd have to pay 50% more per sqft to live in a neighborhood I'd prefer to be in because a lack of supply keeps housing prices up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fizzzzle Posted January 18, 2021 Share Posted January 18, 2021 What's the solution? Keep building up? There are things like historical preservation that keep that from happening. My house is historically preserved, you literally can't do anything to the outside of this lot without clearance from a bunch of different people. My dad's entire neighborhood is historically preserved, and it's in the city. Even before that you couldn't build a building taller than 3 stories. NIMBYism at its finest, but I don't know what you'd do about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Uaarkson Posted January 18, 2021 Share Posted January 18, 2021 1 hour ago, Fizzzzle said: What's the solution? Keep building up? Yep, across all segments of the built environment, not just the "hot" neighborhoods. When 90% of a city is zoned for SFH, the fire hose of gentrification gets blasted at a handful of "trendy" neighborhoods (which are usually the ones with intact, historic traditional built pattern). Every part of a community needs to be allowed to develop, incrementally, to the next level of intensity. You know, like how we used to do shit for thousands of years until the fucking automobile and suburban experiment. Most of what we have today is horrendously fragile and rigid, built to a finished state, with no hope for adaptation. This post consists mainly of Strong Towns jargon. I suggest you look them up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted January 18, 2021 Share Posted January 18, 2021 14 minutes ago, Uaarkson said: Yep, across all segments of the built environment, not just the "hot" neighborhoods. When 90% of a city is zoned for SFH, the fire hose of gentrification gets blasted at a handful of "trendy" neighborhoods (which are usually the ones with intact, historic traditional built pattern). Every part of a community needs to be allowed to develop, incrementally, to the next level of intensity. You know, like how we used to do shit for thousands of years until the fucking automobile and suburban experiment. Most of what we have today is horrendously fragile and rigid, built to a finished state, with no hope for adaptation. This post consists mainly of Strong Towns jargon. I suggest you look them up. The thing is you don't need skyscrapers everywhere. Paris is something like 50k people per square mile and that's just from basically the entire city being 5-6 story buildings, not from highrises. And since you mentioned Strong Towns, gotta love how people love to harp on about respecting homeowners but SFH owners are actually getting subsidized by apartment dwellers on the cost/person utilities, road maintenance, etc costs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted January 18, 2021 Share Posted January 18, 2021 1 hour ago, Fizzzzle said: What's the solution? Keep building up? There are things like historical preservation that keep that from happening. My house is historically preserved, you literally can't do anything to the outside of this lot without clearance from a bunch of different people. My dad's entire neighborhood is historically preserved, and it's in the city. Even before that you couldn't build a building taller than 3 stories. NIMBYism at its finest, but I don't know what you'd do about it. Reducing minimum lot width so to essentially legalize row homes in existing neighborhoods could more than double existing density with no noticable change to the neighborhood. Throw in legalized accessory dwelling units and permissive light commercial business zoning (think a coffee shop or small grocery in a neighborhood) and you've got the recipe for a good functional urban neighborhood Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fizzzzle Posted January 18, 2021 Share Posted January 18, 2021 1 minute ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said: Reducing minimum lot width so to essentially legalize row homes in existing neighborhoods could more than double existing density with no noticable change to the neighborhood. Throw in legalized accessory dwelling units and permissive light commercial business zoning (think a coffee shop or small grocery in a neighborhood) and you've got the recipe for a good functional urban neighborhood Sure, I just mean what do you do about historic preservation. A lot of laws need repealed to do anything about that. Repealing laws is a lot harder than enacting them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted January 18, 2021 Share Posted January 18, 2021 1 minute ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said: Reducing minimum lot width so to essentially legalize row homes in existing neighborhoods could more than double existing density with no noticable change to the neighborhood. Throw in legalized accessory dwelling units and permissive light commercial business zoning (think a coffee shop or small grocery in a neighborhood) and you've got the recipe for a good functional urban neighborhood NIMBYs think Tokyo is all Blade Runner but it also has lots of more residential areas with small detached houses where the neighborhoods are way denser than most of the US. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted January 18, 2021 Share Posted January 18, 2021 Urban kchoze: Japanese zoning URBANKCHOZE.BLOGSPOT.COM This articles is a follow-up of this one about standard zoning practices in North America. It is advised to read the previous article to b... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted January 18, 2021 Share Posted January 18, 2021 2 minutes ago, Fizzzzle said: Sure, I just mean what do you do about historic preservation. A lot of laws need repealed to do anything about that. Repealing laws is a lot harder than enacting them. What about historic preservation? There's a lot of buildings with that designation that just aren't historical or even noteworthy. I live in Richmond VA and there's a lot of historical districts and overlays that just are not much of note other than the buildings are old. Even still, expanding the urban form from suburban to urban is a greater get, in terms of housing and land, than retrofitting historical districts Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fizzzzle Posted January 18, 2021 Share Posted January 18, 2021 5 minutes ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said: What about historic preservation? There's a lot of buildings with that designation that just aren't historical or even noteworthy. I live in Richmond VA and there's a lot of historical districts and overlays that just are not much of note other than the buildings are old. Even still, expanding the urban form from suburban to urban is a greater get, in terms of housing and land, than retrofitting historical districts I agree, I just mean how do you expand when historic preservation has become a NIMBY tool. If I'm making sense. In Portland, we have entire districts that are historically preserved. I remember the catalyst for my dad's neighborhood was a 3 story building that got built next to an old bed and breakfast, the whole area basically within a couple square miles got historically preserved within a year, now you literally can't build anything by law. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Uaarkson Posted January 20, 2021 Share Posted January 20, 2021 27 minutes ago, Jason said: San Francisco is beyond parody. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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thewhyteboar Posted January 21, 2021 Author Share Posted January 21, 2021 I don't know who here has a Defector membership, but Burneko's take-downs of Elon Musk's dumbassery have been priceless: No Points For Guessing That Elon Musk's Miami Traffic Solution Is Dumber Than Shit | Defector DEFECTOR.COM It’s not necessarily newsy or valuable to note that Elon Musk had a dumb idea online, but it’s important to note what, exactly, is dumb about the following idea, from very dumb idiot Elon Musk:... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted January 21, 2021 Share Posted January 21, 2021 Just now, thewhyteboar said: I don't know who here has a Defector membership, but Burneko's take-downs of Elon Musk's dumbassery have been priceless: No Points For Guessing That Elon Musk's Miami Traffic Solution Is Dumber Than Shit | Defector DEFECTOR.COM It’s not necessarily newsy or valuable to note that Elon Musk had a dumb idea online, but it’s important to note what, exactly, is dumb about the following idea, from very dumb idiot Elon Musk:... They can use the pedo submarines in the tunnels. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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b_m_b_m_b_m Posted January 22, 2021 Share Posted January 22, 2021 AV tech isn't going anywhere Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Jason Posted January 29, 2021 Share Posted January 29, 2021 This is absurdly overdue. You only need to try to walk the Brooklyn Bridge upper deck once to know this is true. Car Lanes to Become Bike Lanes on 2 Major New York City Bridges - The New York Times WWW.NYTIMES.COM Mayor Bill de Blasio wants to add bike lanes on the Brooklyn and the Queensboro Bridges to encourage cycling as the city recovers from the pandemic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted January 29, 2021 Share Posted January 29, 2021 21 minutes ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said: lol posted before I saw you'd already done it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Guest Posted February 8, 2021 Share Posted February 8, 2021 In Houston they have started adding in the green marked bike paths, but the physical barriers are these relatively small road humps (I'd guess 6-8") tall. Enough to grab the attention of a distracted driver that veers into the bike lane, but not enough if they straight up lose control. They have built out some bike paths along the bayous where there are no cars at all. Pretty neat to see how much it's changed in just the last 2-3 years in the city. Our new drive in is being surrounded by 3-4 story multi family and row style housing, replacing a lot of traditional single family homes in the area. Only downside is that it's definitely forcing out folks who grew up in the area as it is mostly young white collar workers moving into these new developments. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted February 10, 2021 Share Posted February 10, 2021 On 2/8/2021 at 6:34 PM, sblfilms said: In Houston they have started adding in the green marked bike paths, but the physical barriers are these relatively small road humps (I'd guess 6-8") tall. Enough to grab the attention of a distracted driver that veers into the bike lane, but not enough if they straight up lose control. They have built out some bike paths along the bayous where there are no cars at all. Pretty neat to see how much it's changed in just the last 2-3 years in the city. Our new drive in is being surrounded by 3-4 story multi family and row style housing, replacing a lot of traditional single family homes in the area. Only downside is that it's definitely forcing out folks who grew up in the area as it is mostly young white collar workers moving into these new developments. Without forcing developers to make below market housing, this is what will happen. (There still may be below market housing, just in SFH/townhome format) The alternative is these older homes stay and the current/traditional residents leave anyway. Gotta keep building, though. Houston is doing far better on home affordability than most other big cities, though it still has issues of its own like the displacement you mentioned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Jason Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 6 minutes ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said: That's an extremely hyper-local account for our feeds to be THAT similar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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