Mark Hogan

Too many cities are in this dire economic situation. And there are still politicians who want to put their city in the same place thru lazy, destructive, & short-sighted austerity budgets.

A big part of it is that too many cities don’t know the difference between costs & investments/value creators.

Omg we have those at the DeYoung museum in SF and it thought they were the only ones

this is actually a really good presentation of the points in favor of single-stair. yes they literally quote a random fire marshal in exurban minneapolis, but they pretty much nail all the pros in a way that I think effectively communicates to laypeople.

I don't think AI is going to automate your email despite all the advertising to the contrary

Knives Out for the ICE Queen Senate Republicans might be ready to dump the DHS secretary.

"The reforms they’re seeking—badges and body cameras, that they lose their masks, that they be investigated for misconduct—are utterly reasonable...Americans don’t like what DHS has been up to. Democrats should aim a lot higher than just getting a scalp from Noem." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Hezbollah just restarted the fight that Israel was waiting to finish | CNN In the pre-dawn hours of Monday morning, Hezbollah opened a new front in the US-Israeli war against Iran when it launched “missiles and a swarm of drones” at a military base in northern Israel.

It feels like this was the plan all along

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So this study is based on the Lived-Experience-of-Firefighters and not quantitative research or comparisons to peer nations? This does not seem to be an evidence-based approach to public policy. Very disappointing.

Why are we agreeing with Matt Walsh what is happening

This is really the only right choice. When spaced properly, these racks offer ease of utility for all bike types and nearly all abilities of riders.

Square tubing is best to prevent the use of pipe cutters and sunken bolts rather than exposed offers more security.

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My office is actually live work but it looks like a storefront

We have live work zoning in some areas and I think one other type of zoning that allows it

Oh yeah they actually allow that in SF and there are some small businesses like that near my office. It's pretty cool.

There's just a lot of vacant retail in general everywhere now

In densifying suburbs where a lot of five over ones are going up now they mandate ground floor retail but a lot of suburban tenants are looking for a one story building with surface parking

If you have a tree protection bylaw, how many people have applied for permits for removal? How many of those have been granted? If developers can pay an in-lieu fee for required plantings how many did so? How much money was raised this way?

in a lot of places the only tenants developers can picture are chains like Walgreens so they build for that and end up with spaces that are very hard to rent to smaller businesses. Outside of a few places like Manhattan and San Francisco the demand for ground floor retail is almost non existent

There is no line between those things any more

Great thread on street trees. San Francisco relies heavily on a nonprofit called Friends of the Urban Forest and most trees go in here at a 15 gallon size (much smaller than the 2.5"-3.5" caliper measurement). The survival rate is not great but our climate also makes establishment tough

It also depends on if that number needs to include underground utility survey work and concrete demo

Okay but imagine working in Revit on this thing while you are on the train

Mayor Lurie turned the anti-Jewish rantings of a random street loon into a global indictment of San Francisco The mayor’s inaccurate statement allowed gullible rubes and bad-faith trolls to bash this city as a hotbed of organized, political antisemitism

Oof Mayor Lurie really dropped the ball yesterday. More from @esksf.bsky.social in @missionlocal.org

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He's doing the same thing Biden did (that didn't work) and telling people to ignore the material reality of inflation and a stressful economy

I do like dried apricots!

Uhhhhh

Yes we did! This happened in Sacramento too

Hummelo: A Journey Through a Plantsman's Life | Standard Edition | 9781580935708 Piet Oudolf's personal account of his celebrated career in the context of the evolution of his own garden

Not a new book but I just took it out from the library and I can't recommend it enough. Piet Oudolf's life told through the evolution of his garden:
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Yeah, Mission Local did a nice job here!

Those things look so scary!!