welcome to the future! with SB 79 and the rezoning plan from Mayor Daniel Lurie, #SF enters a new pro-housing, pro-transit era that will be more inclusive and more affordable. the status quo wasn't working. it's kind of messed up that there was so much resistance to changing it

i began my transit advocacy ~25 years ago when a few neighbors and embittered merchants had epic meltdowns over improving our Geary bus line thefrisc.com/the-ballad-o... NIMBYs and dead-enders can still bellyache all they want. but now #SF and other cities have now entered a new era

pretty much yeah www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

Astonishing how many people can’t tell the difference between “loved debate and free speech” and “carried out an effective PR campaign for specific, previously unpopular ideas”

imagine that

GOOD NEWS: California's housing reforms are defanging NIMBYs and their bogus and subjective claims about "aesthetics." building housing is a lot of things, but it is not cheap. (in fact, if you want it to be cheaper, you have to have more of it.) 1/

Lighting buildings and gardens during the Golden Hour (or Magic Hour) of early evening make a place even more magical for photographers & cinematographers, but also makes for enchanting Walk Appeal at close of day while people walk home or to dinner.

#SF politics are kinda cooked. THE WHOLE CITY got to vote on Prop K, and yet people still say that a car cut-through was "taken away without much input from them." mk

Let’s hope the NYT public editor looks into why Times reporters witnessed multiple instances of cash being handed out at the mayor’s events but didn’t write it up til they got beaten on the story by a feisty nonprofit site …. Apologies … We are being told the Times no longer has a public editor.

why does we have a housing crisis? some say it's because of greedy developers. others say it's private equity. others say it's landlords keeping units vacant. maybe it's NIMBYs who assert they "want housing done right." what do you think it is? www.mercurynews.com/2025/08/13/p...

Maybe the Right needs its own Joe Rogan-like figure

"Before 2020, many of 181 Fremont’s buyers were looking for secondary homes in the city ... Today, most of the building’s buyers are local, upgrading within the neighborhood and purchasing primary residences." sfstandard.com/2025/08/03/s... stop listening to #SF antigrowthers and NIMBYs

yea we can blow this one too

✅ PASSED ASSEMBLY LOCAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE: SB 79 by @scottwiener.bsky.social that would end the exclusionary housing policies that have made housing more expensive and transit inaccessible, allowing more people to live within walking distance of quality transit and boosting ridership.

stop listening to NIMBYs that just say no because then you won’t have anything www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/n...

just based on this ‪@missionlocal.org list there’s some $5.5 million in public money going into #SF Mission district nonprofits t.co/SwOfMExH3u and everybody knows how this neighborhood continues to struggle. it’s fair to ask what the community is getting in return

birds of a feather 🪶

Julie Kirschbaum of Muni notes that devastating service cuts to Muni, BART, Caltrain, AC Transit will harm Bay Area economy; mentions Muni's cost reductions and the fact that a SF is also looking at a complementary regional measure to maintain Muni...

We haven't yet fixed the fact that you can stall or stymie a housing project by saying 'I'm opposed unless we have a structured, enforceable, community-led process for daily land acknowledgements during construction' or something." missionlocal.org/2025/05/miss... (reposted)

they are!

The Secretary of State is getting rid of foreign aid and diplomats. The HUD Secretary opposes housing assistance. The Secretary of Commerce is killing businesses. The head of the EPA is promoting fossil fuels and forever chemicals. The Attorney General is a crook.

In August 2022, I predicted six steps Trump would take in a second term to replace our liberal democracy with something like Viktor Orban's Hungary. Shall we review the bidding a month in? 1/10 www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

wknd repost: seeing how in some circles, it's appealing to oppose housing not only because it's for the "wrong people" (the rich) but also for which "wrong people," like white men. (if they're in tech too that's probably worse.) meanwhile, women are <pastes link> t.co/gLZEg06sgN

hold up, shouldn't SEO be the best thing AI does right now? if not, why not?

they probably said stuff at like this at the Stasi

"why can't we blame greedy developers for everything? mommy!"

Setting the over/under of how long I will be at Planning today at 5.5 hours

ICYMI more building = more options = stabilizes prices, and even makes them fall

#28, (we are getting to the NIMBYs) in opposition, complaining about Fleur de Lys (been empty since 2014) potentially being turned into housing, the true emergency is not available housing, but we need safe streets?

2 speakers ask @sfplanning.bsky.social to add Bernal Heights to the upzoning map because - like the nabes currently included - it's well-off and should host more workers and families. Did you see our recent story about Bernal Heights and its housing attitudes? thefrisc.com/what-a-steep...

Fewer areas can go up to 50 feet, 65, or 85 feet. These limits INCLUDE what developers can add on with local and state "density bonus" laws

Here's the big reveal of the new map: Density decontrol. Even where higher buildings aren't allowed, "form based" planning means more units can fit within the allowed envelope.

we need to build housing, how 'bout that

Join us! Here's the map, with a little annotation from us.

🧵 ALERT: In about an hour we'll join the @sfplanning.bsky.social commission meeting. Did you read our story about the new SF #housing map that aims to loosen limits across much of the city? The map is the main event on today's agenda: sfplanning.org/sites/defaul...

What if Great Depression but on purpose

another Great Moment in #Journalism: take the thing that gives you 15 minutes of viral breakout and actual, social impact and say "You know what? Let's take it down to 0 minutes" abcnews.go.com/Politics/whi...

How can we ask anyone to come to an academic conference in the US when our system and the people in it are behaving in a lawless fashion?

i kind of like this one

found object

serious question: i'm never on here, what am i missing?

Remember: you can hide the cost of parking, but you can't make it go away. Building, operating, and maintaining acres of asphalt doesn't come free. Someone's got to pay the bill. Why not those of us who store our private cars on it? That seems fair to me. www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/g...

@soleilho.com maybe the city should ask for its money back www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/arti... couldn’t hurt

why anyone went or goes along with either of these ghouls is beyond me

Nominating Al Franken for Senate in MN would put a necessary and long overdue end to the idea that Democrats exist to set a good example for Republicans.

can i still be punk rock if the ads on my podcasts are for peptide skim creams and DIY wills and trusts?

enough is enough. expanding airports and freeways are not only a costly nightmare, they're in fact the wrong way forward. tell @gavinnewsom.bsky.social you want fast, frequent and reliable rail service: www.hsrail.org/blog/act-now...