After 42 years, Berkeley is kicking street festivals off of Telegraph Ave. because the fire department has decided on a new, stricter interpretation of the fire code that does not allow 26-ft. fire lanes required next to buildings of 30+ ft. to be blocked even by a street festival

If I wanted to try vibe coding a basic front-end site, should I try Replit, or Bolt, or what?

Who knew the Berkeley Fire Department would start eliminating festivals, limiting farmers market sizes, and block safer streets—becoming the single entity in the city working to make everyone in the city unhappy. We can have nice things without needing to pave the entire city for fire truck access.

The Culver City Planning Commission also signaled support for more density and height in the Hayden Tract, but they want the Planning Department to explore ways of incentivizing Eric Owen Moss-like design

Tonight, the Culver City Planning Commission voted to approve a 1,077 unit housing development in Fox Hills

WHITE HOUSE: FEDERAL STATISTICAL SYSTEM MAY HAVE PERMANENTLY BEEN DAMAGED WHITE HOUSE: OCTOBER JOBS REPORTS LIKELY NEVER RELEASED

amusing chart. it turns out New York City built more housing units in the 1920s than in the 1970s, 80s, 90s, 2000s, and 2010s put together www.nyc.gov/content/plan...

This one is probably my favorite. I like how they lined them all up neatly in a row and then left the couch 😑

It's crazy how ahead-of-its time Palm WebOS was. Basically how we navigate on iOS and Android today is modeled off of what Palm figured out in 2009

There’s a pair of ~10 year olds freestyle rapping on my Metro train

So beautifully arrayed

What is going on with LA Sanitation sending compost bins to individual apartment units? I thought LA Sanitation doesn’t even serve buildings with more than four units?

I laughed out loud (these were for one building)

“Dingbats” but they’re six story mass timber single stair bldgs in former single family neighborhoods

Types of Family Homes

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

Cross-posting my discovery of the day. This guy could have been the Shoup of design review. He's was a random architect working from home in Bernal Heights. Never had a faculty position. He churned out scores of academic papers and one great book. threadreaderapp.com/thread/19873...

I feel like I just found a gold nugget! During my daily streetview ambling I just now discovered a 1925 apartment building designed by RM Schindler that was thought to have been demolished for the 101 freeway. But it wasn’t! It was *moved.* (first screenshot is from US Modernist)

Why has Bluesky labeled this as “graphic media”???

Well, that’s one way to advertise a house!

This is incredibly inspiring: 70% of the restaurants started by chefs in this incubator have remained open at least 10 years. Is there something like this in LA?

There's a million reasons why this would never work, but it would be cool if broke cities could have an infrastructure repair bounty program: You fix a broken sidewalk, you get 1/4 a unit or 500 sq ft of extra development rights

Here's a project I missed: A 3,000+ bed Medicare elderly care facility in Warner Center, being entitled using ED 1

A new hotel/residential tower has been proposed at LA Live. No renderings of the project have been revealed yet, but the application includes a detailed written description. This is what AI thinks the building will look like based on the description

Something I'm really excited about: the 80-page report on ED 1 that I wrote last year with @abundanthousingla.bsky.social has finally been published! Download it here: acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:...

Someone on LinkedIn, who I'm not connected with and I don't think I've ever interacted with, translated a graphic I made into Spanish to help explain to his parents what he does for work. Wow! You never know how you're going to have an impact 😭

A crazy statistic I read today: LADWP delays are responsible for an AVERAGE OF EIGHT MONTHS of additional construction time for apartment buildings requiring an underground installation

At Terner Fall Colloquium, Buffy Wicks signals that the next big reform for the state legislature is going to condo liability reform and ownership housing units

yeah Canno Design cracked the brick code here and now they sail through design review www.cannodesign.com

This must have been some sort of protest move by underpaid masons, right?

How is "plug in solar" fine but these are "suicide cords"?

Single-stair plus multifam zoning on single-fam lots might be what prefab needs to take off. Manufacturing processes require scale and repeatability; only single-family lots deliver those. Homeowners want too much customization in ADUs, but developers might be profit-minded enough to see the vision.

nexus studies are such bullshit

Today, Mayor Bass has lifted the Shelter Crisis Emergency Declaration. I believe that means that ED 1 is no longer in effect. The council has moved forward with a permanent ED 1 ordinance, but it will be months (or longer) until it goes into effect

ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections

$22 million kinda feels like chump change? Rick Caruso spent over $100 million on the last LA mayoral election

Today, Mayor Bass has lifted the Shelter Crisis Emergency Declaration. I believe that means that ED 1 is no longer in effect. The council has moved forward with a permanent ED 1 ordinance, but it will be months (or longer) until it goes into effect

A really-cool three-story single-stair building proposed behind a commercial building in Lincoln Heights

Two years later, this project application has been withdrawn. It now sits as an empty lot.

Unfortunately, Twitter still has bangers (in this case, hidden in the community notes)

LA’s growing Candy Factory District is looking good with the Sees Tower and Candy (W)rapper

The whole RHNA framework depended on everyone politely pretending to comply, and now a court has very politely pointed out that the emperor has no clothes. www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/emil...

Dodgers win! Congrats on #9. Next year will be 10.

Had to make a pilgrimage

Watched the Dodgers win in a very LA fashion: on a sketchy stream on TikTok while waiting for a bus

I love San Francisco, and I don’t know why I’ve never seriously considered living here.

Which is better: 1) Palace of Fine Arts 2) Cow Palace

Happy Halloween! Californians, remember to vote Yes on 50!

“We” did not land on the moon. You guys left without me and I’m still mad about it.

Apparently this is what “less busy than usual” and “no wait” looks like