Housing good, parking mandates bad, more at 11. It's interesting to see the precise results of these reforms though. Removing the mandates is really more pro-flexibility than anti-car. The example of the development that would have been illegal under the old code not because it didn't provide parking, but because the parking was next door and technically on a separate lot, was particularly illuminating. https://www.sightline.org/2023/04/13/parking-reform-legalized-most-of-the-new-homes-in-buffalo-and-seattle/ #yimby#housing#FuckCars
#Seattle today is the last open house for the comprehensive plan! The current draft plan is atrociously bad and will lead to increased rent, more homelessness, more pollution, and worse transit if adopted as-is. If you have a chance, I highly recommend coming out tonight to take advantage of the last opportunity we have to ask our representatives for more housing in person
They are resestablishing an old lake as close to my back yard as at all possible - some of it may actually end up IN my back yard. So this is to let you know I'm joining the YIMBY-movement.
Yes In My Back Yard
I want solar panels on every last house in the village.
A big communal battery in the rooms (plural!) where my wood pellets go now.
And many windmills in my pastoral landscape - they always give me hope.
YIMBY Melbourne have released a report on their recommended inner city housing targets to tackle the housing crisis. The report focuses on missing middle zoning, along with carrots and sticks for ensuring housing is delivered.
#Poland Konin town mayor election candidate Piotr Korytkowski made lobbying for a #nuclear power plant in the town one of his main postulates. He won the first round, there will be a second one.
Nuclear power enjoys significant support in Poland which is now mostly coal-based, as it offers a realistic scenario to transition to a stable, low-carbon source with little dependency on foreign supply chains.
This photo says so much. Often high density housing projects are opposed because some say it does not fit the aesthetic of the homes in the area. Clearly apartment buildings can co-exist with historic homes in SF. #PaintedLadies#SF#housing#YIMBY
I wish these pieces would say more about what we already have here. The most common house type here is already the 2-family, which is not typical for most of America. Next are the famous 3-deckahs, of course.
We have density built in and were still failing at it.
Years ago, @vmbrasseur gave a talk at OSCON/osbridge about the importance of failure, as a way to learn, as a key to innovation, about how failure needs to happen or you become averse to change. I haven't really thought about how using that wisdom in my software experience has shaped my opinion about how cities should do public works & planning, #transportation, #zoning, #tacticalUrbanism, etc until this #StrongTowns video. Prototype, test, measure, don't guess. #JFDI
Today our local daily carried #Providence Urbanist Networks' response to the #RhodeIsland Department of Transportation's revised Carbon Reduction Strategy.
tl;dr: While there are improvements, it's still nowhere near where it needs to be. Response by @shadow and I.
I'm sure many other states are going through the same thing right now.
#UrbanPlanning + #YIMBY friends: Can anyone point me to stats showing that converting to multifamily zoning disincentivizes car use by curbing sprawl and increasing #walkability / #bikeability rather than (as my NIMBY neighbor believes) increasing traffic? Thanks in advance for any boosts! #ActiveTransportation
#Consultation are starting for the next EHON initiative: Allowing townhouses and low-rise apartments as-of-right along all major streets.
This is an important step for solving the #HousingCrisis housing affordability in Toronto, since low rise apartments are often the cheapest per unit to build, yet they're currently illegal in all but a few places in the city.
I’m off to Brighton this evening for the Green Party Conference, at which myself and others will be making a serious attempt to change the party’s policy to support high speed rail (including HS2)
“Repeat after me: building any new homes reduces housing costs for all”
Article in Financial Times by John Burn-Murdoch addresses supply-side scepticism from multiple angles, including the impacts to Auckland and Minneapolis of zoning changes on rents.
[News] America is becoming a country of YIMBYs (www.cnn.com)
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Rents Are Falling in Some US Cities, Thanks to New Apartment Construction (www.bloomberg.com)
Austin, Phoenix and Atlanta rents drop with supply increase....