Communism is when your elderly mother can get to the supermarket on her own without needing to risk driving or rely on an adult child to drive her.

Doesn't anyone else think it's a problem that there's literally cars anywhere you look?

in 1923 Lubbock's first zoning code segregated by race, citing that people of color 'pollute the atmosphere' and prevented them from owning property in parts of the city. then they wrapped their neighborhoods with industrial zoning intentionally

US zoning was invented for this

When you have a terminal case of Car Brain.

This is something I think about a lot.

I spend FAR less time shuttling my kids around bc everything we need is very close to our home (daycare, school, groceries, library, doctor, etc).

As the kids get older, they’ll be able to walk, bike & take transit solo.

1/4

The fact that Redwood City did this before Telegraph Ave in 'progressive' Berkeley is just so pathetic. Another indictment of fake Bay Area progressives who are literally just NIMBYs who hate change. There's really nothing more to them than that.

Guy who thinks that houses are more environmentally friendly because they have backyards.

*buzzer sound* wrong

The lesson here: people absolutely love car-free streets, will utilize them in droves if you set them up right, and we should have more of them. Other cities, take note.

Cars were permanently banned from Broadway in downtown Redwood City this week, and it appears the entire town is out enjoying the open street tonight. Love to see it!

If you're an environmentalist and you're using 'raw numbers' instead of per-capita then you're not a good environmentalist.

NIMBYism usually boils down to density free-riding—wanting to live close to desirable amenities that are sustained by population density, but not wanting any of that density to be right next to you.

Narrator: 'He did not, in fact, pay to be away from the density.'

Boo

One of these homes has been modified in a way that is disallowed under San Francisco planning policy. Which one is it, and how has it been modified?

Vallco, 469 Stevenson, Brisbane Baylands, People's Park, and now HMB.

We have a broken system when individual housing projects need to get gargantuan amounts of public scrutiny in order to be approved.

Notice the word choice here. “Archipelago.”

San Francisco is not an archipelago. As much as Aaron Peskin has tried to fabricate his own private Telegraph Hill island, segregated from his perceived “riffraff,” we are a city that needs to unify around common values and goals.

Redistricter435 Housing Spock You literally invoked 'revealed preference' and then tried to say that we can't let revealed preference be unleashed because to do so would be like legalizing murder! Un. Hinged.

We can't support new housing only when it's dedicated to people whom we personally find sympathetic. I love artists. Artists are great. But we're doomed if we build housing only for poor artists and whomever else should pass our personal 'cool' tests.