Jane Fiegen Green

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Pro-people, Pro-housing, Pro-planet | Arlington, VA via St. Louis and St. Paul

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Excited to announce our endorsements for Alexandria! We know these 6 candidates as housing champions, whether through their work on Council or as advocates. If you care about our housing crisis, and all it’s implications for affordability, climate, and health - these are the candidates for you!

Learn how to be an advocate for housing! All attendees will get a free membership with YIMBY Action. actionnetwork.org/events/how-t...

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Ned Resnikoff

pretty sure you could pass "charge for parking permits and spend all the revenue on new public housing" with like a 90% majority among the Boston YIMBYs I know, and would be shot dead for proposing it in front of any neighborhood association

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DO NOT DESPAIR DO NOT GIVE IN We are a very big "we." We are the majority. And that matters. Now, we push forward. We organize -- locally. We scan the new horizon, and plan.

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Publicly announcing an intention to ban the pill is the sort of thing you do if you feel so confident that your guys have so thoroughly rigged the system that it doesn’t matter that it’s a profoundly unpopular idea. Overwhelming majorities can just eat shit.

Did the high heels write this??

Men and women who wore high heels became better, more efficient walkers afterward — not only in heels, but also in flats — a study found.

Could wearing high heels be good for you?wapo.st Men and women who wore high heels became better, more efficient walkers afterward — not only in heels, but also in flats — a study found.

I'm at the airport 2 hours early so I can hopefully register for Arlington summer camp before my 3pm flight 🤞

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2048: Taylor Swift, chopping wood in front of a remote mountain cabin. Black SUV drives up, three men in dark suits get out, scanning the treeline. A fourth man gets out, NFL commissioner Tony Romo. Romo: We need you for one more mission. Swift, holding her ax: You know I’m retired.

www.stripes.com/branches/arm... h/t @arlnow.bsky.social

2 Old Guard soldiers arrested on charges of stealing Pride flags from Virginia couple’s homewww.stripes.com Two soldiers — members of the 3rd Infantry Regiment, also known as The Old Guard — have been arrested on charges of stealing Pride flags from an Arlington, Va., couple’s home, according to local police.

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We're in TIME! YIMBYs of Northern Virginia President @janefgreen.bsky.social and lead @arlvagrace.bsky.social make an appearance (literally) in this article. Personally the article is meh, IMO, focusing on historic aspects that are irrelevant to the modern battle over housing going on today, but 🤷🏼‍♂️

NIMBYs and YIMBYs Have More in Common Than It Might Seemtime.com NIMBYs were citizen activists who set a model for participatory democracy that YIMBYs should follow.

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Today’s bake for brother’s 40th. I believe I have outdone myself.

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Christine Johnson

I can only speak for myself, but I do not live in a constant state of violence. I am not constantly "sizing up" things to kill. I am also very happily married to an amazing woman. That is not a coincidence.

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Goooood morning Alexandria! I’m so excited to share that I’m running for city council. I’ve volunteered and contributed to our community in different ways over the years, and this felt like the right moment to even more fully answer the call to service. Much more to come, I can’t wait. Join me:

Jesse O'Connell | Democrat | Candidate for Alexandria City Councilwww.jesseforalx.com Democrat Jesse O'Connell is running for the Alexandria City Council to improve education, quality of life, economic development, and affordability for all families. The Democratic Primary in Virginia ...

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I'm happy to report the BZA decided to uphold Arlington County's zoning decision to approve the two future #MissingMiddle/EHO 6-plexes in the Alcova Heights neighborhood. They will have a neat floorplan, each w/ 1 x1BR, 4x 2BR, and 1x 3BR units: arlington.granicus.com/MetaViewer.p...

In reviewing the anti #MissingMiddle application to the #ArlingtonVA Board of Zoning Appeals (BZA) that is attempting to stop a 6-plex in the Alcova Heights neighborhood, I see it is 177(‼️) pages. I ain't got time to read that.... So I used Microsoft CoPilot 🤖 to summarize it. Here's how it did 👇

Digital Civic Engagement for Government l Granicusgranicus.com Digital Civic Engagement for Government with the latest in cloud technology that connects 250 million people with 5,500+ government organizations.

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The civil rights fight of our time! Please donate [to the million dollar homeowners] as CLA bravely defends the civil rights of people [who own million dollar homes] to ensure their quality of life [by excluding non-millionaires from their neighborhoods] Solidarity with these freedom fighters!!!

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Don't miss this upcoming event to support ending parking minimums in Minnesota. St. Paul and Minneapolis have led the way in eliminating parking minimums, getting more housing built more affordably, with less reliance on cars. It's time for the rest of the state to join the fun!

Support eliminating parking minimums to help allow abundant housing for all! TUESDAY AT 10:00 AM. Join Neighbors for More Neighbors, and partnering organizations, in welcoming the Minnesota People Over Parking Act. actionnetwork.org/events/the-i...

My 2024 parenting goal is to make sure my son realizes how lucky he is that is school serves papusas for lunch.

Wow. What a completely anti-democratic and anti-renter provisions.

And reminder that the project needed every single one of those 6 votes, thanks to a provision in our code that forces a supermajority votes if owners of 30% of land near a project oppose it Not residents, just the owners of that much land. Absurdly anti democratic provision that should be reviewed

Density is magic!

@janefgreen.bsky.social spoke up for housing at the Red Lion Inn redevelopment as AHS rep & nearby resident. She highlighted the Special Affordable Housing Protection District program being to preserve units in an existing affordable market rate building. 👏

Arlington County Board Regular Meeting | January 20, 2024www.youtube.com

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NIMBYs love to act all pious about local democracy, but look at how they behave when duly elected representatives respond to the majority's desire for more housing.

charlottesville nimbys lost the battle over the new zoning code so naturally they are suing to block it drive.google.com/file/d/1-Tej...

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🚨 Everyone in Virginia: Please help push our #YIMBY bills through the State Senate committee tomorrow (Wednesday). SB 233 "Faith in Housing for the Commonwealth" (also called "Yes in God's Backyard") is up for a vote at 1pm. Submit a quick and easy letter through this tool:

Contact the VA General Laws and Technology Committee Today!actionnetwork.org One of YIMBY Action's key bills, Faith in Housing for the Commonwealth (VA's version of Yes In God's Back Yard or YIGBY), will be heard by the VA Senate's General Laws and Technology Committee tomorro...

I just bought a sled, so I'm either prepared or I jinxed the snow day.

Hats off to all of the WMATA staff who made the shuttles around the closed Arlington stations a breeze!

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Taking bets. This week will we get more inches of: A) Rain Or B) Times columns blaming floods on zoning for housing

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I very much want this along Arlington's R-B corridor. We're starting some of it around the Courthouse metro station, but it can & should extend all the way down to Rosslyn & Ballston.

How To Build a Bike Lane that Breaks Records: youtu.be/C16SDtppKBg

How To Build a Bike Lane that Breaks Recordsyoutu.be It sounds funny to say, but this bike lane was a big influence on this channel. When we first moved to Montreal in 2019 we lived nearby and saw the city take...

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My first Transportation Camp #TCampDC24 was awesome! As usual I forgot to take many pictures, but it was a packed turnout with a full slate of panels across ~12 rooms and 5 sessions. I helped a fellow YIMBY of NOVA on his session giving advice on grassroots advocacy & coalition-building. #urbanism

For sale in Arlington: 780sf detached house built in 1938, for $825,000. Let's hope we get a quadplex here instead. www.zillow.com/homedetails/...

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The main difference between illegal immigrants today and the 14-year-old, unaccompanied migrant that founded my family 159 years ago: You didn't need a permission slip from the feds to get a job back then. We should let immigrants get jobs to provide for themselves.

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Just walked further to get from grocery store to parking spot here in my hometown than I do to get from grocery store to my couch at home 🫣

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Use this one weird trick to avoid being removed from state ballots for violating Section 3 of the 14th Amendment: 👏👏 Don't attempt to commit insurrection against the government 👏👏

Motion filed to remove Trump from Virginia ballotswww.wric.com “Mr. Trump has declared his candidacy for president again in 2024,” reads the motion. “However, under the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, Mr. Trump is constitutiona…