No. This thinking needs to change. Apartments are homes and should not be thought of merely as buffers between busy roads and 'real' neighbourhoods. Just stop. www.therecord.com/news/waterlo...

🚨Governor Josh Stein has signed legislation eliminating minimum parking requirements for most uses across nearly all of North Carolina. “An Act To Restrict Local Governments From Regulating Certain Aspects of Off-Street Parking Spaces,” passed the Senate 44–1 & House 111–2.

Under LA's new "Objective Design Standards" for historic districts, the building on the left would be prohibited, and the building on the right would be encouraged

🚨 North Carolina's HB 162, “An Act To Restrict Local Governments From Regulating Certain Aspects of Off-Street Parking Spaces,” has been sent to the Governor after passing the Senate 44–1 & House 111–2. The bill eliminates minimum parking requirements in most of North Carolina.

Worcester's "city manager also called for the removal of parking minimums — a mandate that requires a certain number of parking spaces to be built alongside new developments. The city’s housing production plan states that parking minimums are directly linked to limitations on land development."

🚨 MAJOR news for parking reform in North Carolina 🚨 The Senate just passed HB 162, removing parking mandates for ALL uses except in coastal counties 🎉 BIG shoutout to Catawba River Keepers & partners for the hard work to get here!  House vote next, then the Governor's desk. Let's bring it home! 🏁

The opposition put forth this website to track the negative impacts of our zoning This is just a blighted property with no units being replaced with 43 including 9 forever affordable

Realizing that the stacked townhouses built in Ontario since the mid-80s (like my home) are basically a housing category invented as a way to avoid the cost cliff imposed by going from 3 to 4 storeys in the Ontario Building Code has been an unpleasant eye opening experience.

You absolutely love to see it.

Wonder why EU, US, Asia are fighting so desperately over cars? As the largest chunk of cross-border traded goods, the car *is* globalization In @thepolycrisis.bsky.social we ask the essential questions: Who makes them? Who feeds them? www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/cas...

Basically every city in Massachusetts makes people with mobility challenges wait endlessly for accessible apartments by blocking them indefinitely with their zoning codes. I appreciate the AG for this move, but the big challenge is that elevator buildings are made illegal by our local politicians.

"Kansas City Council voted to eliminate...minimum parking requirements across much of the city. The old rules drove up construction costs, kept storefronts empty & made it harder to build affordable housing. This is how we build a more walkable, more affordable Kansas City" – Mayor Quinton D. Lucas

This has been true for many decades. Traffic “predictions” destroyed American cities.

30% of the disabled community cannot drive due to their disability. Compared to less than 2% of all driver aged population being unable to drive

WATCH: “Every once in a while you just have to remind yourself the president of the United States is a sociopath,” says Chris Hayes.

Washington just leveled up. Small elevators = more elevators, more homes, and more accessible cities. @danbertolet.bsky.social

“…disabled people are actually less likely to drive than nondisabled people and more likely to get around by walking and rolling and taking transit. Car-heavy cities are also disproportionately dangerous for disabled folks…”— @nondriver.bsky.social Don’t use accessibility “as a political football.”

Complete replacement of existing neighborhoods with buildings like this will radically transform life for people with disabilities. I can (maybe) visit 10% of homes in the Boston area safely. I want a neighborhood character where I can accept a dinner party invitation without a second thought.

Read our analysis of the video showing a US Tomahawk missile strike next to Girls’ School in Iran on February 28 here: www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...

America’s peculiar approach to building codes has delivered bad results. Influence-peddling is part of the problem, but that’s just one of many problems with the mediocre process used to develop US codes.

NEW STORY // King County Metro Delays Planned Electrification Work, Pushing Out Fiscal Cliff www.theurbanist.org/2025/09/24/k...

Some of my friends who drive think I judge them for driving out of some sense of superiority. In reality I just love them and want everyone to live.

Protest against Bike Lanes on Washington Street Pilot in Newton, Mass being organized on Tuesday Sept 2, "planning being kept quiet to avoid a counter-protest by the biking community" From r/bikeboston

Any architects or designers out there interested in working for a transit agency? We’re hiring someone to help us plan facilities! Come help design a better T! www.governmentjobs.com/careers/mbta...

Good! Galvin pursuing ballot question on same-day voter registration  commonwealthbeacon.org/politics/gal...

4 units is the threshold at which the most basic Fair Housing Act protections for disabled people kick in. Why are cities and towns using zoning to ban the Fair Housing Act?

ICYMI: my caution against ill-advised electric bus mandates This is the wrong time to be forcing US transit agencies into a monopoly marketplace. commonwealthbeacon.org/opinion/why-...

Conscientious SUV Shopper Just Wants Something That Will Kill Family In Other Car In Case Of Accident theonion.com/conscie...

This is why Massachusetts Dems hold local primaries right around moving day and insist on the annual voter purge disguised as a census.

The people have spoken, and what we demand is an end to costly parking mandates.

Imagine thinking Trump and Musk’s lovers’ quarrel has anything to do with “holding billionaires accountable”. 🤡

Not a Somerville thing. The MA plumbing board disapproved of them in Oct 2023. Cambridge hasn't installed any new ones since then either. www.mass.gov/doc/pl-minut...

The price of housing is set by supply and demand; and we can observe the balance between supply and demand by looking at vacancy rates. Low vacancy rates give landlords power to jack up rents. Housing abundance empowers tenants to demand cheaper rents. Everyone with money on the line knows this!

This is important research by Jablonsky, Ast & Partners in Canada Keep tall building form simple, and you can save huge amounts of embodied carbon Vital for planners, architects and engineers alike

Those of you who aren't San Diego Politics freaks probably don't know that Trump crony and tariff mastermind Peter Navarro is a former Democrat and arch-NIMBY. Before tariffs, his big idea was a "housing development moratorium" in San Diego. A huge dumbass across two parties

Single stair has landed in Austin, with a 10-1 vote no less! Huge win for abundance in the Texas capital. 🏆 Who’s next? 👀

I assumed this article was about zoning, because that is the most common legal tool used to block projects people in power don't like. The zoning code in Selah, WA requires 2x as many parking spaces for mosques as any other religious building. This is totally legal and many people approved it. 😵‍💫

Building new buildings is the only way to create the inclusive world imagined by the ADA and Fair Housing Act amendments, but now it’s progressive to oppose changing the world because it’s just more “stuff”.

I understand the need to avoid infighting right now, but who’s fault is it? In functioning democracies, party leadership resigns when the party loses an election. It’s past time for new leadership.

Boston! There's a street action tomorrow to protest the removal of the Boylston St Bus lane! Meet 6PM at Copley @mass.streetsblog.org @transitmatters.bsky.social @bikeboston.bsky.social @universalhub.com More info here www.reddit.com/r/bikeboston...

Here’s Elon cutting pediatric brain cancer research 👇🏻

NEW STORY // Op-Ed: Single Family Zoning Is Keeping Seattle Inaccessible to Disabled People www.theurbanist.org/2025/03/11/o...

Here’s a solution to the “unfunded mandate”: Repeal the zoning enabling act. Zoning’s purpose is to: 1. Segregate people by class 2. Concentrate lower classes near environmental hazards 3. Prevent in implementation of accessibility laws by banning any building that would trigger them.

Trump takes egg Trump took egg Trump has taken egg Trump is taking egg Trump will take egg Trump will be taking egg Trump will have been taking egg…

Oh hai.

When American planners say new infill buildings “aren’t feasible” without land assembly, it usually means: 1️⃣ Our city imposes minimum parking mandates. 2️⃣ Our state building code bans the kind of modern, fire-safe single-stair apartments that are routinely built in the rest of the world.

NIMBYism — largely fueled by progressives in blue cities & states — is badly harming our country & its psyche. It reduces economic productivity, traps people in places with little to no opportunity, & fuels the cynicism & despair that’s led us to such toxic politics today.

I can’t believe it - after years of advocacy, exclusionary zoning has ended in Cambridge. We just passed the single most comprehensive rezoning in the US—legalizing multifamily housing up to 6 stories citywide in a Paris style Here’s the details 🧵

What would it look like to “pig butcher” the United States government?

Who wore it better?