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Bike parking should be provided all around busy commercial areas especially on side street corner areas where available. Victoria BC has a volunteer run bike Valet!

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Trump’s net worth has nearly tripled in his second term, reaching $6.5 billion. His administration is the most brazenly self-enriching in American history. My @morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social Chart.

Very interesting. They are worried about prices rising more slowly and maybe eventually the widespread affordability we once had. Are they “home builders” or “investing developers”?

It’s going to be a great time to be in the trades.

Bill McKibben on the solar energy boom: “Sunlight has to travel 93 million miles to reach the Earth, but none of those miles go through the Strait of Hormuz."

Until metro homeowners are willing to support home appreciations that slow in relation to wages through sustained market supply growth through out metros esp inner cores with incorporation of new mixed use the number of cars on our roads and needed lane miles will only continue to grow.

Land use law brings this. The biggest shares are new residential subdivision streets, collectors feeding those neighborhoods and roads for strip retail / big box / office parks @bethosborne.bsky.social

Any state can do TOD reform at all bus stops

Urbanists: If you own scarce urban land and oppose abundant housing, you’re not just commenting on the crisis , you’re invested in it.

Per mile travelled rail more dangerous especially to people outside of vehicles. Compared to UK/EU US has much worse safety outcomes though. Never hear about passenger rail and vulnerables. Suicides excluded.

America still condemns greed in theory. But in housing, we legalized it, localized it, tax-advantaged it, and renamed it “protecting neighborhood character.”

Again and again I will say that great regional density and mixed use is what makes all of it possible. It is the foundation.

Housing Multipliers by state

Local zoning laws created an artificial housing shortage that has transferred trillions of dollars from younger generations to incumbent homeowners.

America has car ownership. Europe has car optionality. That is the difference zoning, density, transit, and street networks create. In the U.S., land-use laws mandate separation and low density, making a car a requirement for daily life rather than a choice.

Local zoning is state-delegated power. When municipalities use it to create scarcity, the state has every right , and arguably a duty , to take some of that power back.

A housing market cannot become broadly affordable unless scarcity rents and inflated land values fall relative to incomes.

Local zoning is state-delegated power. When municipalities use it to create scarcity, the state has every right , and arguably a duty , to take some of that power back.

Next please MA Washington State. HB 1491. This 2025 TOD law requires higher density near many public transportation stops; expected to affect 200+ bus stations in Puget Sound by 2029. I’d argue for duplex/ triplex by right within 1/2 mile of any bus stops at owners choice.

A housing market cannot become broadly affordable unless scarcity rents and inflated land values fall relative to incomes.

Amtrak’s high fare per mile is not just a rail policy failure. It’s also the price of trying to run passenger rail across a land-use pattern regulated to suppress walkable, rail-supportive demand.

America still condemns greed in theory. But in housing, we legalized it, localized it, tax-advantaged it, and renamed it “protecting neighborhood character.”

Land use continues to be the foundation for car centrism and ADT growth nationally. Fix zoning and the rest will fall into place naturally. We’re an outlier by design.

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Per mile travelled rail more dangerous especially to people outside of vehicles. Compared to UK/EU US has much worse safety outcomes though. Never hear about passenger rail and vulnerables. Suicides excluded.

Local zoning is state-delegated power. When municipalities use it to create scarcity, the state has every right , and arguably a duty , to take that power back.

Urbanists often say pedestrian danger is a street-design problem. The post-2010 spike is a also a scarcity problem. Exclusionary zoning makes walkable places expensive, pushing poor people into low-density arterial areas, and then call the resulting deaths a traffic safety problem as if unrelated.

Urbanists: If you own scarce urban land and oppose abundant housing, you’re not just commenting on the crisis , you’re invested in it.

What we call ‘sprawl’ is not a natural pattern, it’s the physical outcome of land use and zoning regulations. In most U.S. metros, it’s illegal to build any market alternative.

It’s time to build more market housing. More than anything else this effort needs state leadership out front with locals becoming implementers rather than gatekeepers.

Land use and zoning are the operating system underneath a century of transportation outcomes, including today’s congestion, traffic deaths, and forced car dependence and comparative lack of transit

We talk about ‘sprawl’ like it’s weather. It’s not. It’s zoning. It’s illegal to build mixed-use, walkable neighborhoods on most land in most U.S. metros. The pattern isn’t accidental. It’s the law that now protects scarcity. Governors need to lead the affordability fight.

Understanding America's traffic safety failures requires grasping two basic facts: - Americans drive a LOT vis a vis other nations due to sprawl, cheap gas, poor transit/trains, etc (which is why deaths per capita is the right metric, below) - A mile of US driving is *still* unusually deadly

Exposure to traffic whether people are driving, biking or walking is off the charts high in the US. It’s not sprawl. It’s land use and zoning that have been locked in locally that creates sprawl.

Build market housing to get us #BackTo3

We drive because our land use and local centric zoning most places mandates it

Seriously? 50% more than Canada?

Localities cannot fix scarcity in their own. It REQUIRES state level action

How did we ever let zoning and planning do this to us ??

From the Daily Hampshire Gazette: The state is lagging significantly behind national housing production trends, with western Massachusetts at "half of that average,” says Donahue's Kerry Spitzer. https://bit.ly/4sIdMIM

Western Mass faces a 16K+ housing shortage. Institute research shows slow construction & rising costs fueling an affordability & accessibility crisis - especially for seniors, disabled residents, young workers, Blacks, and Hispanics. https://bit.ly/413xORO

“'We want a healthy and thriving Springfield and we think housing policy is part of that,' said Geraldine McCafferty, housing director for the city." https://www.masslive.com/westernmass/2026/04/springfield-embarks-on-comprehensive-housing-study.html

Imagine a USA where all roads and road maintenance were paid for locally excepting interstates. How much denser would cities and towns be? How many more gravel roads once you leave city, town center? Would zoning have been different? You betcha!

Affordability has to be the North Star. Not units. Not permits. Not “process reform.” Not ribbon cuttings. The test is: Does market housing cost grow slower than incomes until the multipliers fall back to 3?

When a board approves development with unsafe walking/biking access, courts defer: “We won’t second-guess policy in negligence cases.” Very broad immunity. Almost all stroad/arterial development was and is locally approved, where pedestrian deaths have surged since 2010.