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what i dont understand is someone saying it takes away office space which is why I don't get zoning sometimes. It's offices, not a factory why not have both in the same area or even some in the same building? Am I missing something?
You certainly can allow both, but if a homebuilder comes and says he wants to build X amount of homes but 0 office space, and it's zoned for both, you do lose the capacity for office space.
But nobody is stopping a developer from doing both, but perhaps it wasn't as
Don’t be fooled. Our big cities frustrate any housing project they can put their fingers on.
Every time a local paper prints "they wished the project was smaller...state law prevented them from adjusting it", an angel gets its wings
remind of the kind of elected official you regularly come across in the OC? I wonder how many think SB79 is going to be yet another optional state bill because their city attorney will surely find a way out of it.
"Much needed office space" sounds like joke to me for some reason
"Your plan make housing prices affordable by building pales in comparison to my plan to ..."
I find it amazing that people in power can find 10 things missing from a bill or law but never 10 minutes to vote and pass those same 10 things. You see we can’t create heaven on earth because it won’t have enough chairs. So let’s just make hell or do nothing instead.
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This sort of nonsense is exactly why the book Abundance was written
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Everyone upset the Acela runs as slow as Japan’s 1970s trains: Amtrak had a plan 15 years ago to straighten tracks in CT & RI. A few thousand locals killed it, costing us 25 minutes of time savings between Boston and NYC for decades to come. x.com/alstomusa/stat…
The “transplant” fearmongering happens in NYC in part because the city actually has surprisingly few domestic migrants.
56% of the city was born in NY State, and 28% is intentional. But just 12.8% of the city was born in a US state outside the tristate area
Everyone upset the Acela runs as slow as Japan’s 1970s trains: Amtrak had a plan 15 years ago to straighten tracks in CT & RI. A few thousand locals killed it, costing us 25 minutes of time savings between Boston and NYC for decades to come.
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And that marks the first ever Boston → D.C. journey on @Amtrak’s NextGen Acela and a new era of passenger rail in the U.S.!
As usual, the problem isn’t technology, it’s land use
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Everyone upset the Acela runs as slow as Japan’s 1970s trains: Amtrak had a plan 15 years ago to straighten tracks in CT & RI. A few thousand locals killed it, costing us 25 minutes of time savings between Boston and NYC for decades to come. x.com/alstomusa/stat…