Next one will be Albacore County meetup at Crozet Seafood

Are you interested in connecting with people who care about making Albemarle County a place everyone can afford? Come join us at our first ever Albemarle County social event this Thursday the 25th from 5-7pm at Bar Botanical in Crozet!

At one point I doubted traveling across the country, during the week of crucial policy votes in Seattle, to attend YIMBYtown. But it's been a galvanizing few days looking at the bigger picture where it's pretty clear that those of us advocating for more people-centric communities – we're winning.

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

Hell of a line

AND we are excited to announce that in addition to our monthly social this Thursday at Ix @brazos.bsky.social from 5-7pm, we will have our first Albemarle County social on Thursday, September 25th from 5-7pm at Bar Botanical in Crozet. Invite all your county friends to join us!

Hey, I need to remind y'all that *THIS* Thursday, Sept 11, you'll want to be hanging out with a bunch of cool folks at Brazos Tacos (Ix Park). It's very casual, so drop in any time from 5 to 7+ and we'll be there

I'm in

Thanks for sharing and for your record-keeping! Another good resource with transcripts can be found here: meetings.cvilledata.org/meetings/cha...

The DTM is “dying” because it’s boring and expensive!! Stop blaming the most vulnerable people. Travel to any other comparable size town and see what they have to offer.

Fuck it @mtgillikin.bsky.social pitcher fan art (I'm sorry I can't get impulsive thoughts out of my head if I don't make them)

@mtgillikin.bsky.social's comments for @livablecville.bsky.social at last night's Charlottesville City Council meeting

To be clear: Kochis said homelessness service providers were NOT consulted before this first reading of the proposed ordinance.

we are not going to be able to effectively solve our local housing crisis until more people are able to wrap their heads around the simple fact that students have to live here too

I need to learn how to clip a YouTube video because we have an amazing city councilor going on a tear right now about the need for housing and why we need to build more

Says he's experienced homelessness, starting around 16. Now 37, he lost his housing. Was working full time. Says he managed to get into a new place, but couldn't have managed the transition under this ordinance. "This is some crazy historian crap... aren't you guys all democrats?"

Charlottesville/Albemarle folks: reminder that we're going to the 6:30 council meeting today to oppose this ordinance!

Nope, fuck off with jokes like this

Oh and if anyone in the Crozet or Ivy area needs a ride, let me know.

Charlottesville/Albemarle folks: reminder that we're going to the 6:30 council meeting today to oppose this ordinance!

I'm really excited about SIG Multicluster, and not just because Intuit recently contributed a feature to multicluster-runtime as part of our work on GitOps Promoter 🙂

Not just homeless people. If you sit on a bench at Riverview Park and accidentally forget your water bottle there when you leave, you seem to be guilty of a Class 4 misdemeanor? Good thing the staff report and resolution specifically say they plan to enforce it inconsistently!

I think the thing that gets me is that I did have ethics classes in university. It’s just that the classes always turned into the women, nonbinary, and other marginalized people giving a shit and the cis dude bros not understanding why it was that important.

Back at the house, I'm not going down without a fight

[cont] c) Develop and implement a homelessness outreach program in conjunction with area homelessness services providers and related agencies Finally come to the Council meeting Tuesday evening at 630pm. Use this form to sign up for public comment: www.charlottesville.gov/692/Request-...

One's appreciation for GitOps increases with the number of 6am incident calls spent manually reconstructing cloud resources.

We're here live from the Crozet Bike Rack

Tree of heaven might be the nastiest plant ever. The spottern lanternflies are shitting on nearby plants and killing them.

Gentrification is what we call it when demand exceeds supply. It is not caused by bike lanes. The answer is not to suppress demand by enshittifying cities, or to justify endangering & killing people outside of cars as a rent control mechanism, but to increase supply.

Cars are the universal comparison for Things That Cause Harm [To Other People] And We're Fine With It.

"Words mean things," a controversial legal take

Of Monsters and Men is performing in Atlanta at the same time as KubeCon 👀

Sounds a lot like the recycling campaigns designed to get people to think that their neighbors are responsible for pollution rather than massive unregulated corporations.

Simple Boxes with Ornamentation are better than One Box Pretending To Be Lots of Boxes

This is a sign that was prominently displayed inside Bainbridge Island council chambers while their planning commission found reasons to delay the mere consideration of zoning changes that would allow an affordable housing project.

The usefulness of an open source project is not an indication of the project's health, stability, or reliability in production!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Good overview. A couple thoughts: 1) service for riders "at the margins" is a core case, not an edge case; if improved service doesn't reach those people, you're achieving a meaningfully different goal 2) we should resist framing healthcare as a means to en economic end

I don't think it's a coincidence that so many mayoral candidates are running on platforms that unapologetically promise to give people great mobility options besides driving — and they're winning their primaries by *massive* margins. Wrote about urbanism as a campaign issue in Seattle & beyond.

really feels like housing affordability is one of the most important political issues of our time, affecting nearly every aspect of our lives, and everyday our mainstream political discourse is about whether sour cream is woke or not

Cville, it's a good time to shut the thing down completely

It's dangerous to go alone, take this

Gonna continuously reconcile a couple martinis

There's of course Seattle, where progressives came out ahead in every single race. Katie Wilson is on track to shore up close to half the vote against Bruce Harrell. Dionne Foster & Eddie Lin are now favorites to win their races and join the Seattle City Council.

Being in the room and speaking to eliminate parking minimums was something else. Congrats to Denver City council for repealing parking minimums! #copolitics

I wonder how much revenue Charlottesville has lost by failing to have a functional zoning code.

New housing is a great way to preserve affordable housing

If you were to put bike racks in/around Crozet, where would you suggest? - Bluebird - Mudhouse/the Square - Piedmont Place has one already - Crozet Market has the worst-placed bike rack I've seen What kind of bike rack?

Only going to name and shame one locality But feel justified because I used to live there Albemarle is large geographically and has over 100K residents Could use early voting locations north of Route 250 and Crozet area Currently only 1 location south of I-64