Working through the Minnesota study on single-stair buildings and fire safety Since 2000, 0 fire deaths in MN have been caused by fires in corridors, stairwells, or ramps. 75% of deaths happen in the same room that the fire originates --- seemingly not a matter of whether there are 1 or 2 stairways

now showing: THE FLYING ACE

Flashing lights on smoke detectors in hotel rooms are so astonishingly, mindblowingly stupid that I can only assume they're a code requirement. @stephenjacobsmith.com is this true?

This is incredible. Like the previous few years, near all of the electricity capacity added to the grid was clean energy. The Inflation Reduction Act helped this - it made solar & wind cheaper but it also for the first time had a standalone incentive for grid storage. Look at the growth in storage!

SB 388, ‘Faith in Housing’ aka Yes In God’s Backyard, just passed the senate 🎉

C'ville folks! Local luminary and lender of e-bikes Josh Carp created this very cool site, which combines videos of public meetings with searchable, linkable transcripts. meetings.cvilledata.org/meetings

Do you want to read 1,400 words on how the 1930s miniature golf craze played out in Charlottesville? Of course you want to read 1,400 words on how the 1930s miniature golf craze played out in Charlottesville. cvillepedia.org/Miniature_golf

Fascinated by the typographical situation happening in this document.

Many affordable housing proponents support mandates on the premise that they produce more affordable housing than voluntary incentives, even if they kill housing supply overall. A recent paper by Lebret et al shows this premise is false. (thread)

It took two entire years for the ALX Circuit Court then the Court of Appeals to (correctly) rule that the zoning ordinance section titled "Mixed use or residential/SUP" applies to residential SUPs. The project couldn't move forward in that time. Land use litigation in Virginia needs to be reformed.

Folks, you will not believe the acronym they gave to the 50-mile sewer project.

A federal judge issues a restraining order against the feds, barring them from "destroying or altering evidence" storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

this reminds me of the way i’ve seen susan bro speak about her daughter, heather heyer. when a fascist murders your child, you aren’t allowed to just grieve. you have to defend their memory, even their very grave.

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

they’re abducting our neighbors and putting them in concentration camps and they’ll empty a whole goddamn magazine into you while you’re lying on the ground if you don’t cheer them on while they’re fucking doing it.

It's going to keep happening until there are consequences.

To repeat: Abolish ICE.

TIL NoVa has a FIFTY-FOUR MILE LONG sewer interceptor conveying wastewater all the way from Loudoun (and almost everywhere in between) to DC to be treated at a 384 MGD facility on the opposite side of the Potomac River in the District proper. Why??

Everything I've ever learned about AC electricity has been against my will.

We know that urban IZ isn't the most effective way to *produce* many affordable housing units. But it also turns out not to be the most effective way to *integrate* AH into exclusionary neighborhoods. (Suburban IZ can be more effective.)

did this LLM just say "terminus post quem" to me

Heaphy, Smith, Harbach & Windom: No community will be blighted by a bike/ped path ever again! If you're facing a tree holocaust, call today at 1-800-T-HEAPHY, that's 1-800-843-2749.

JPOW literally said

Everything in this screenshot is very clearly written by ChatGPT.

Looking for a little bit of good news? Delegate Shelly Simonds just introduced a bill (HB262) in the Virginia General Assembly that would prohibit minimum parking mandates for any building, new or existing, in the state. Just one of ~7 similar bills we expect this session @parkingreform.org

You'll be shocked to learn the lawyer who made frivolous legal threats against the city to bully them into paying off a developer to block a 245-unit housing project for "environmentalism" is now volunteering for the GOP to make sure political gerrymandering is only allowed to go one way.

Blacksburg has over 50 transit trips per resident per year. Charlottesville is falling behind and that's unacceptable.

i'm sorry what

>The Hill Defence reporter Filip Timotija

it's just going to get stupider from here

I wonder why these are perceived so differently www.thedeletedscenes.com/p/the-big-ho...

Who could argue with this?

👀 Someone's installing a portable padel court in the parking lot behind a building on West Main.

Good take here on Family Friendly Housing by @ad-mastro.bsky.social www.thedeletedscenes.com/p/is-yimbyis...

Consultants contracted by Minnesota found that an eight-story single-stair building with 6,000 sq. ft. per floor (building 4) has dramatically lower fire risk than a same-height code-compliant two-stair building with a larger floor plate (building 1) www.dli.mn.gov/sites/defaul...

These are such extraordinarily blatant bait it's actually remarkable. Here's one from Charlottesville Nextdoor, with the post that "inspired" it:

‘Tis the season

Once again on a 7 bus with as many passengers as seats wondering why the CAT director thinks it's not important to improve frequencies on this route to pre-covid levels.

this was @rorystolzenberg.bsky.social's final meeting as a planning commissioner. appropriately, it was a work session on the capital improvement program, an important thing that hardly anybody pays attention to.

If every service launch vastly exceeds ridership projections, that's a sign your ridership projections are broken.

That's right.

I really can't emphasize enough that if you care about local politics, all you gotta do is show up. Just a regular schmegular person showing up. Literally just show up consistently in person and within a remarkably short amount of time, you will have a shocking amount of influence.

Bafflingly poor decision to only release these alignment options of a regionally important project to attendees of a physical meeting in Crozet on a Thursday evening. How are people supposed to know if they want to attend the meeting to provide feedback if they can't see what's being proposed?

Charlottesville's sister city BAR shenanigans news:

Good news: New data suggest that Portland's inclusionary zoning program is finally working as intended, after being fully funded in 2024 www.sightline.org/2025/11/25/p...

Amtrak really needs to get a handle on its wildly inconsistent and arbitrary policy enforcement. Below, station attendants refused to let a passenger board 11 minutes before departure in Charlotte this morning 👇