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If our little town of 14k can do it, what’s your city’s excuse?

1 week later, posts and paint fully installed. Very quick work!

“I think my community should welcome outsiders and newcomers seeking a better life” and “I think we should only build new housing for the kind of people who actually deserve it” are fundamentally incompatible beliefs.

Massive moment for the utility relocation streamlining for transit projects community

All YIMBY ballot measures are currently winning in NYC by 10-point margins at least

A few days after the presidential election one year ago, we went to Fordham Road in the Bronx. It was a little different last week.

Maxwell Park is now East Oakland's first neighborhood to become Moderate Resource. Oh, Longfellow & west Bushrod moved from Low to Moderate Resource, I think, meaning it's no longer exempt from SB 79.

The draft 2026 TCAC Opportunity Maps are now out. belonging.berkeley.edu/2026-ctcachc...

New Bay Wheels dock in front of Huchiun Park and The Emery. Love the increased park access and the convenient location for the hundreds of new residents in my neighborhood!

🎃👻 Today, the kids from ECDC stopped by City Hall for some trick-or-treating fun! It was such a joy seeing all the costumes and smiles. Huge shoutout to ECDC for organizing this wonderful event and to our Police Department for the safe escort! 🍬🧡

Yearly reminder that Halloween is the deadliest day of the year for children. If you have the choice not to drive or are on the fence about taking transit, there is no better day than tomorrow.

Oakland DOT recently kicked off a suite of low-cost, quick-build bike/walk spot treatments around town to close bikeway gaps, upgrade intersection treatments, & add physical separation to curbside bike lanes. See the full construction plans here: drive.google.com/file/d/138GO...

The City of Emeryville stands with our community. We understand that recent events with ongoing federal immigration operations, federal government shutdown, and pause on new SNAP benefits are creating challenges for many households. Visit www.emeryville.org/News/The-Cit... for resources.

This week I shipped The Outer Worlds 2 with Obsidian Entertainment, a game I've been working on for almost 3 years. The response has been overwhelming. Every developer got to have a "Tossball" card placed somewhere in the game, it's surreal to see a YouTube guide on how to collect yourself.

Came back from the amazing Life After Cars show in SF to have both Emeryville bound busses leave simultaneously before I could exit the station. Both of them have 30 minute frequencies so it was quite painful. Thankfully Bay Wheels saved the day, but it was a little ironic to say the least.

It’s so weird when people do the blood and soil thing about New York City, a place that more than just about anywhere else on earth was forged from a constant churn of newcomers

It’s official: I’m running for Congress to represent San Francisco! I’ll fight for our city – against Trump’s takeover, for our values, & for real progress. I’ve delivered on housing, healthcare, clean energy, & civil rights – & I’ll do it again. Let’s build the future our city & country deserve.

In a piece of Good News, Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) has reprogrammed several traffic signals to better accommodate the bike bus! During school commute hours, several key signals will provide a longer walk phase with a "long-press" of the call button. bikeportland.org/2025/10/21/p...

Trader Joe's finally upgraded to actual bike racks in Emeryville.

Curious about what’s happening around Emeryville? For more info, please visit www.emeryville.org/News/Active-...

Drives me nuts that things like bike lanes get painted as luxury goods or harbingers of gentrification when making it easy and convenient to get around your city by bike could save low-income households thousands of dollars a year.

“I will build 200,000 units of affordable housing… and I’m going to make it easier for the private sector to build housing, because what we see today is it’s not labor, it’s not materials—it’s the wait that is actually costing so many so much to build the housing we need” @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

When will Caltrans start adding time via transit to their freeway signs? ⏳

SB 720 - SIGNED INTO LAW This bill by @senatorashby.bsky.social will institute a fairer and easier to administer red light camera program in the state that cities could choose to use.

Gov signed SB 71, making permanent @scottwiener.bsky.social's CEQA exemptions. For much of our transit priority, protected bikeway, Slow Street, etc work, CEQA process would have taken longer and cost more than project itself, and done nothing for environment.🙏 cal.streetsblog.org/2025/01/24/w...

I believe The Mouse will find a way to stop this but it would be extremely funny if SB79, the bill allowing apartments to be built near transit stops throughout California, ends up allowing homes near Disneyland because the monorail is technically transit

What could make a community of white, affluent boomers so livid? In a shocking twist, the reason is exactly what you think it is. www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

Important to remember that not only did we pass #SB79, the biggest transit-oriented upzoning bill ever, we also passed a clean CEQA exemption for new multifamily infill housing. This is, bar none, the biggest year in state action on housing policy reform in California history. Not even close.

the worst people in california are SO upset right now ☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️

THAT'S WHAT'S UP, WE'RE GONNA BUILD SOME FKN HOUSING IN THIS STATE

That feeling when the Governor signs your bill allowing more homes near public transit & you then walk from your 39-unit apartment building to get on the subway. Housing + transit = perfect combo

Ladies and gentlemen, we did it. SB 79 has been signed.

This gives me hope. That Calif can get serious about climate. That young people and new immigrants to Calif might have same privileges I did. That we can make transit work. And that we transit advocates can learn from this phenomenal work by housing activists

What can mid-rise housing look like on side streets where lots are redeveloped one at a time? This example is a good one. - All homes have windows in at least two directions. - Elevator building. - Entry door from a balcony for fresh air. 50x122 is a common lot size in much of western North America.

Lmaooooo

@gavinnewsom.bsky.social on #SB79 just now in his Twitch conversation with @connoreatspants.bsky.social: "It’s on my desk & I will be reviewing it on its merits. It’s really important housing legislation, and I recognize how important it is." Folks: keep calling + urging him to sign! (916) 445-2841

The people posting those flyers either don’t know of the Berkeley Elmwood neighborhood’s repulsive history of weaponizing downzoning in support of racial exclusion, or they embrace it. belonging.berkeley.edu/sites/defaul...

This rules so hard. It's been a longstanding conviction of mine that the best way to convince people to replace car trips with ebike trips is by letting them try out an ebike for free. Love the Oakland Public Library. oaklandside.org/2025/09/25/o...

These no bike signs on Macalla Rd on Yerba Buena Island are kinda confusing being above explicitly marked bike routes.

Ok let’s talk about this: He cites no legal authority because there is none. “Antifa” isn’t an organization. Being anti-fascist means fighting fascism. They’ll label anyone they want to go after as “antifa” or providing “material support” & prosecute them. (For the record, that’s fascism.)

Come to Temescal, and see how the traffic calming done in 2020-21 created the most vibrant dining and bar scene in the inner East Bay.

The most underappreciated issue in urbanism is the Anglosphere’s transit construction cost problem. It’s not just that we’re spending too much money on any particular project. It’s that we could be getting *much more transit* for the *same amount of money we’re currently spending*.

God bless whoever put up this pro-upzoning poster in Edgewater, please put up more

Emeryville Pride is today! Local queer vendors, food, drinks, and performances on a car free Bay Street!

My statement on the recall of Supervisor Engardio:

To address any of the important issues of our time -- climate change, racial equity, economic equality, traffic safety, democracy -- all of us need to put our jobs at risk in order to make bold and necessary choices. Always know your backup job plan, then do what's right