East Palo Alto settled a lawsuit challenging its “inclusionary zoning” policy, ruling out — for now — the possibility that a federal court might find it, and similar programs across the country, unconstitutional. bit.ly/4pgJj2k 📝 @frombenc.bsky.social 📸 Mike Blake, Reuters

🎸✨ This Saturday at EPACENTER ARTS! Join me in East Palo Alto for a free afternoon of family music and fun with James Henry! 📅 This Saturday, Nov 22 🕐 1–4 PM 📍 East Palo Alto Bring the family, and sing along! #AndyZ #EPACENTER #FamilyMusic #KidsMusic #FreeEvent

Avec de nouveaux arbres, de la nature et plus de place pour les piétons, Paris change ! La rue Charles-Baudelaire dans le 12ᵉ et la rue du Docteur-Magnan dans le 13ᵉ en sont de beaux exemples !

Nuestra Casa from East Palo Alto presenting at Thrive’s Climate Summit on water quality in EPA.

Community for Climate: East Palo Alto Resilience Fair Promotes Sustainability ->M-A Chronicle | #Sustainability #Climate | More from BigEarthData.ai

Introducing our 2nd speaker joining us Sat Oct 11th: Poet and Former East Palo Alto Mayor, Antonio López! Antonio brings incredible knowledge about how to build up our communities and inspire a new generation of leaders! For more info, click the 🔗 below! aclibrary.bibliocommons.com/events/68c8c...

epasun.org/on-the-front... We have a lot of work to do in East Palo Alto to meet the housing shortage caused by a generation of underinvestment in new housing supply. We must pivot away from a failed housing strategy and move towards one that meets the housing needs of today.

Proper framing. Now do cars.

Fun with Friends at the Silicon Valley Bike Coalition Summit.

Nice walk out the door in East Palo Alto with Miguel and Benny doggo tonight.

ICE raid in East Palo Alto today.

It would be a huge step forward for Democrats and for general clarity in political writing if these terms went away. These came mostly from academic hothouses.

lu.ma/lqahxjg9?fbc... Wed at noon

I serve on East Palo Alto City Council, and here are some of the things we have done this year: .

Fun housing event last night in East Palo Alto with Jerusalem Demsas and Ben Metcalf of the Turner Center at Berkeley.

“Inclusionary zoning” is one of those policies that sounds great at first but then when you look at the actual impact it ends up just being a massive tax on new apartments that exempts single family homes, accomplishing the exact opposite of the intended effect

www.eventbrite.com/e/lets-talk-... Jerusalem Demsas in East Palo Alto on May 29

Googlers take Bike to Work Day seriously, as they should. East Palo Alto.

epasun.org/lets-open-up... East Palo Alto City Council has long prioritized community health as a goal of the city. As a Member of City Council, I will be proposing a pilot program where we spend ~$1M per year supporting East Palo Alto families by working with the YMCA to expand memberships.

www.eventbrite.com/e/lets-talk-... East Palo Alto May 29

FYI, East Palo Alto has a life expectancy between 75.8 - 81.3 years. I have recently seen people claiming that EPA has a life expectancy of 62 year, 20 years less than other cities in EPA. This data - which is on the city website - is not accurate.

Today, the House votes on whether to begin the process of gutting Medicaid, throwing millions off their health care & making it worse for those who remain. Trump says he doesn’t want to cut Medicaid, but he’s letting the GOP push this. As usual, he’s lying. All to pay for tax cuts for the rich.

Who cares if there is a project that can be built with 25% affordable if there are twenty others you've prevented by that preposterous requirement?

Unfunded inclusionary zoning is a tax on new housing that worsens the housing affordability crisis it purports to ameliorate and only "works" when market prices for housing are high above the actual cost of development. It's bad policy and we should stop doing it entirely.

Car crashes have been the leading cause of child traumatic injury and death—by far—for decades. The ratio of crash injuries* to gun injuries is ~33:1. Most crash injuries and deaths occur while doing an ordinary thing. * Trips to emergency room. Does not count non ED injuries.

Over @urbaninstitute.bsky.social, my new research on the financial feasibility of small-scale apartment buildings. Right now, high land costs & high debt costs combine to make duplexes & triplexes really difficult to build. Cities need to enable 5, 6, 7+ unit buildings if they want more housing.

Donald shoup literally started a movement that gave people the language, evidence, and motivation to push back against a half century of bad parking policy destroying our cities. RIP king. I’ll never stop fighting to eliminate parking mandates 🫡

RIP Donald Shoup

@theworldindex.bsky.social East Palo Alto this morning

Conor Dougherty's history of the YIMBY movement if it followed the same naming conventions as the Fast and the Furious movie franchise: Golden Gates 2 Golden 2 Gates Golden Gates: Tokyo Zoning Golden & Gates Golden Five Golden & Gates 6 Gates 7 The Fate of the Gates G9 Golden X

When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.

My first and definitely last time working with the Los Angeles Times. Editing out the most urgent point of an OpEd in the minutes before sending to press while then also assigning a title and image that suggest an argument entirely opposite to the author’s clear intent is pretty shitty.

California League of Cities Conference in Garden Grove. Most of the people in my hotel were heading to Disneyland, we’re having even more fun!

www.cia.gov/static/5c875... Fascinating read

Today in 1977: Stevie Wonder hits #1 with “I Wish” — a tune he wrote after attending a Motown company picnic where there were children’s games. He said it reminded him of his childhood. “I went to Crystal Recording Studio right afterward,” he said, “and the vibe came right to my mind.”

Lexi says hi

The price of housing is set by supply and demand. The only reason landlords and home sellers can charge high rents and home prices is because the supply of housing in coastal California cities is nowhere near sufficient to meet demand. We can force them to cut prices by building more homes.

Just had a sample of the Eaton Fire ash that is in my driveway run on the department XRF. Is there titanium (new house paint)? Yup. Lead (old house paint)? You betcha. Heavy metals? Check. Treat that ash like it's toxic folks (because it is)

I introduced legislation (SB 79) to: 1. Up-zone areas around major public transit stops (rail, bus rapid transit) for denser housing 2. Empower transit agencies to zone/permit projects on their land 3. Streamline (ministerial approval — no CEQA, no discretion) projects on these up-zoned parcels🧵

We are thrilled to announce SB 79, a new bill from @scottwiener.bsky.social that will legalize multi-family housing near transit. We are excited to co-sponsor this landmark legislation with SPUR, @streetsforall.org and the Bay Area Council.

Parking policy is important and overlooked. It is the biggest subsidy for driving (except maybe oil). A parking space in Bay Area cities is worth ~$3-5K/year. Each car uses several. Nothing of remotely comparable value is offered to people who walk, bike or take transit. doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...

It is important to recognize the anti-development vacancy arguments for what they are: a myth. There is simply no compelling evidence that a surplus of vacant homes exists, especially in high-cost cities. ggwash.org/view/97898/d...

Lexi enjoys surfing the internet on the weekend

THREAD: In 2023, I received an envelope with no return address. Inside was a flash drive containing tens of 1000s of secret files. It came from a vigilante with a tumultuous past, who'd conducted a years-long undercover operation. He didn’t tell the FBI or his family. He only told me.

If you’ve ever wondered why so many protected bike lanes have those odd looking short, intermittent, curb height traffic islands, it’s because actually moving the curb and raising the bike lane messes with the street’s drainage and can make accessing utilities harder.

East Palo Alto Today

Hawk(?) on the San Francisquito Creek this morning in East Palo Alto

Bluesky’s default feature to start with the people you are following instead of algorithm recommendations is a huge plus

If you want to know the name of the NIMBY who has been blocking the repairs to the Santa Cruz wharf since 2016, her name is Gillian Greensite and she deserves the blame for what happened today www.goodtimes.sc/the-wharfs-c...