Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀

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Dingbat enthusiast. Redwood irredentist. Lake Merritt booster. Formerly Prince of Prosciutto.

Cities are for people not cars. California is not full.

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$350 co pay for an x ray really puts the “out of pocket” in “out of pocket costs”

new name for this type of weird excess requirement in the zoning code: junk zoning (in this case literally zoning for junk)

Mountain View's R3 zone also requires 500 sq ft(!) of bulk storage per unit that's a generous sized studio apartment just for your extra stuff!

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Broadway Valdez is all large lots (former car dealerships etc), we still don't know how to do something like this with normal sized parcels. They require help in zoning, building codes and financing. But if we ever cracked that nut we could imagine a thousand Broadway Valdezes.

the @cayimby.bsky.social team took a tour of the Broadway Valdez neighborhood in Oakland, one of the most successful specific plan areas in the state which has produced 4500 new homes in the past decade planning focused on public realm improvements instead of micromanaging the new buildings

I enjoyed seeing the different public art developers provided (in lieu of a 1% arts fee) the first photo is a fairly drab facade, but as the trees grow that plaza (former slip lane!) will become an incredible public space I think #urbanism

Lake Merritt… hi

I’ve been reading Indigenous Continent, which is very interesting but also it feels sometimes like he doesn’t have a great handle on American geography? anybody else read the book/seen that?

this is why we need to reform egress requirements in the US building code #singlestairwouldsolvethis

No it’s not built like that. I have only one opening to the outside. Was set up for AC, not air flow

today's #urbanism policy game: how many pages into this Specific Plan document will I have to scroll before I find a map of the covered area?

I finally restocked on lard last week and it is so good to have available again perfect for making quesadillas btw

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Not delighted by the "continued into Biden's presidency" framing when the actual thing the Biden administration did, according to the article, was ordered it shut down immediately after finding out that it was happening

Reuters: The U.S. military launched a clandestine program amid the COVID crisis to discredit China’s Sinovac inoculation – payback for Beijing’s efforts to blame Washington for the pandemic. One target: the Filipino public.

Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to incite fear of China vaccineswww.reuters.com The covert effort began under Trump and continued into Biden’s presidency, Reuters found. Health experts say it endangered lives for possible geopolitical gain.

Bluesky

the thing gmail does where they leave attachments off forwarded emails: why?

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Is there any urban police force in the US that's plausibly under civic control?

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the place, the artist, her process, the art

made this with farro in place of the rice tonight couldn’t get my gf to try it with yogurt, but she said the mole farrotto was “really good” VINDICATION.gif

a current point of contention in my household: last night for dinner I cooked up some leftover rice in mole, and topped it with (extra fat) plain yogurt my girlfriend was, and remains, appalled at this mistreatment of rice I think it was fuckin bomb

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Cities can be easy/fast to drive cars through or they can be safe/pleasant to be in but they absolutely cannot be both at the same time

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In 2022 I did a couple pride dragon sketches in watercolor. I don't have the originals anymore but still wanted to share 🏳️‍🌈

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Sea of Light - Commission for @arukanoda.bsky.social featuring the wonderful Lavi in a cloudscape. Thank your for commissioning me!

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There's a low-lying zone from the University Village creeks to the Bay north of the fields that I think will see a strong push for wetland restoration. I crayon housing on the site like this:

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Phone >>> Email >>> Posts Do it all but make sure to call

NY state senator Brad Hoylman-Sigal: I’ve gotten more telephone calls, emails, texts & voicemails in support of congestion pricing than any other other issue - ever - during my decade in the NYS Senate (that even includes hatred from anti-vaxxers )

need a Lake Merritt Sunday Stroll, where each month one of the three sides of the Lake gets closed to car traffic and people can just come out & walk/bike/vibe

#urbanism is being able to go from a beautiful walk in the park to a communal volunteer experience to retail therapy and snacks all without walking even 1 mile at a time it’s nice!

followed up by treating myself to some pastries, spices, and books naptime now

this morning: helped clean up Lake Merritt with the Trash Falcons, got complimented on my hat by a guy walking by

dinner tonight: black sesame & cardamom oatmeal with berries & extra fat yogurt & maple syrup

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the magic trick of democracy (and the reason i think it is romantic, in its own way) is precisely that you can leverage narcissism and self-interest and even selfishness to do great things for ordinary people