HOLY SHIT Newsom appointed Jaime Lee to the Coastal Commission!

It’s pathetic architects have to do this tap dance but nevertheless they did it and shouldn’t be scrutinized for completing the assignment. This better fucking pass.

My only complaint is that my haters are worse at hating me than I am.

This is really funny: 1) To ensure it went smoothly, Meta routed Zuckerberg’s AI glasses to a special server 2) They accidentally routed all AI glasses in room to that server 3) Mark triggered all the glasses in the room 4) This crashed the server, which was only supposed to handle one connection

We should do this to some streets in LA

One of the reasons this rendering looks so good is that they forgot to include the front-yard setback 😆 la.urbanize.city/post/54-apar... This project is particularly interesting. It's a CHIP project... (1/2)

Why doesn't @metrolosangeles.bsky.social team up with musicians to create tour-exclusive TAP cards that are only available to fans who ride Metro to the concert?

NIMBYs don’t know how CA legislation works, so they’ve been calling Gavin Newsom and asking him to take no action on SB 79, which would result in the law going into effect

After nearly 10 years, today is my last day at the @latimes.com. I'm so grateful to have worked with so many talented people. Please be on the lookout for one more big story soon! Can't share yet where I'm headed next, but I'll still be writing about California housing issues.

The claim that SB 79 “disproportionately impact[s] low-resource neighborhoods” is maddening since this ridiculous meme that new housing is a bad thing for low-income neighborhoods ALREADY got Scott Wiener to exempt those neighborhoods from having to accept any new homes

Now for some good news: apparently Erewhon is officially opening a store in DTLA!

Can someone from SF explain to me how you'd get from the VA in Lands End to Buena Vista Park via the Great Highway? Is there another Buena Vista Park that I don't know about? I'm certainly very aware of a Buena Vista Park in SF. Not sure that's the ideal place to take your elderly father, though?

I kinda love the new iPhone Liquid Glass interface? So far it seems like a lot of controls are much more intuitively placed. Apparently I might be alone in this opinion

So Joel Engardio runs to replace Scott Wiener in the state senate now, right?

Why do career politicians always run for Insurance Commissioner rather than people with experience in the insurance industry? This is an incredibly important role that requires technical expertise, and I’d much rather someone like my friend Skylar Romines than a man from the legislature

El Segundo is one of the cities benefitted by this carve-out. The city has resisted zoning for housing east of PCH, and has a disproportionately low residential pop compared to number of jobs. Tell El Segundo to zone for housing near its rail stations: survey.alchemer.com/s3/8416870/E...

A follow-up bill to SB 79 idea: require every city to allow at least one grocery store and pharmacy within a quarter mile of transit stations

This is a fun little read for people who are interested in the intersection of free range kids and the built environment. But wow, this take that phones would help get kids away from TVs did not age well

UPDATE: This has been postponed! Don't come today!

It’s kinda crazy that in 2025, LA County is demolishing a county office building and replacing it with a parking lot

Fire officials are sometimes making claims that people will die if we pass single stair. "A lot of reason to believe the opposite is true," says Horowitz.

While I support tap-to-exit, it’s clear to anyone who regularly rides Metro that the program as initially implemented did NOT function anything like what is done in London/Tokyo, and it was causing significant egress bottlenecks

It's amazing how much I know about building fire safety that comes from randomly deciding to apply for a scholarship sponsored by the American Fire Sprinkler Association twelve years ago in high school

Why are single-stair buildings actually SAFER than two stair buildings in some circumstances? It seems counter intuitive… obviously, more redundancy is better, right?

Important TOMORROW: The LA City Council is going to vote on whether to legalize single stair buildings. Opponents have launched a disinformation campaign, and we need people to give public comment in support. Will you be joining me tomorrow at 10am in City Hall?

Tag yourself I’m “extreme seven story buildings”

Where will SB 79 apply in LA County? There are a lot of imperfect maps going around that give a good idea, but only tell part of the story. Today, I set out to create the most-accurate map possible, based on my knowledge of the final draft of the bill

1209 Preston Way in Venice is the first SFZ 1123 project in Los Angeles Featuring four detached homes on a previously vacant 10,900 sq ft lot, it marks the end of traditional large-lot single family zoning in California

Models of European metro stations stations.albertguillaumes.cat

My California YIMBY colleague Aaron Eckhouse has been the policy lead on SB 79. He has worked tirelessly for the whole legislative session to get this bill over the finish line without any poison pill amendments. Everyone say “thank you, Aaron.”

LA’s vacancy tax study only looked at taxing entire vacant buildings, not vacant units, so it wasn’t reflective of what people actually call for when they say they want a vacancy tax…

Suddenly feeling a bunch of FOMO about @yimbytown.bsky.social…

Gavin Newsom, when he signs SB 79 into law

After 8 years, we did it! SB 79, the biggest upzoning bill in state history, just passed the Legislature. Brief 🧵, with some important thank yous. 1/x

SB 79 has passed Senate concurrence, and is now on to the governor's desk to sign! I have to give a shoutout to Senators Wahab and Durzao, who I have previously been critical of. If not for their 'yes' votes, SB 79 would not have passed.

I turned 30 this week! Want to get me a birthday present? Call your California state senator IN THE NEXT HOUR and ask them to vote “yes” on SB 79. Reply with your zip code if you need help getting their phone number

Earlier today, I was using ChatGPT to manually scrape fire incident data. It was going great, and everything was passing validation. Then suddenly, at some point it started making up data rather than actually getting it from the source 😵‍💫

It's those darn oil companies! Not me driving everywhere in my SUV, living in a large detached suburban home, using AI, and otherwise maximizing my carbon footprint at every turn

Let's call to support more housing near transit (via SB 79) youtube.com/live/tI-hdvC... My representative's voicemail box is full so we need to drown out the NIMBYs who are calling in today. When the voicemail box is full, google your assembly member's other office numbers and call the capitol #

something i think about when people on here start talking about how we'll never be able to rebuild what trump destroyed. i fundamentally don't believe that--because history shows that you can build *a lot* quite quickly when you've got the will for it

Fun Google easter egg: if you google certain font names, the results are in that font

What's the website that allows you to compare the building permits issued by different cities?

California housing politics during the second week in September

I can’t say I understand why I like the direction industrial design is going in, but for some reason I like it

Tesla announced that they’re getting into manufacturing electrical transformers. Probably only for internal use in their grid-storage products, but still good that they’re increasing the domestic transformer supply

In any case, we WANT private developers to “overbuild” and have vacancies. It’s how we get meaningful rent reductions!!! Oakland rent prices see steep declines, driven by this neighborhood www.sfchronicle.com/realestate/a...

SB 79 (Wiener) could be heard on the Assembly floor today! NIMBYs are calling and potting against SB 79. Don't let them speak for you - please call and ask your Assemblymember to vote AYE on SB 79, and ask your friends, family, and frenemies to do likewise. cayimby.org/call-sb-79/

When like 40% of the general population believes that apartment owners purposefully leave units vacant It would be a really good idea to have accurate data to disprove them

I just don’t buy that there’s substantial compliance costs with vacancy reporting. Vacancy, rent monitoring, etc can all be accomplished with one form filled out once a year per building (plus when there’s new tenants) I understand the danger, but vacancy monitoring is not the breaking straw