Alysa Cisneros

Ahhhh yes. This would help explain that.

Isn’t it weird that they only have HCD comment letters from 2022 on their website.

I’m going to read/skim these city’s housing elements. I’m so morbidly curious.

What voters need to know about the Chino Valley Unified election The school district is at a “crossroads,” the four candidates agree.

Shout out to the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin for their excellent, fact based reporting of the last decade or so of their rapid descent into madness, religious control and fanaticism. Here is a piece on the last election. This is when the current school board president was elected.

What voters need to know about the Chino Valley Unified election The school district is at a “crossroads,” the four candidates agree.

Shout out to the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin for doing some really great reporting on the last school board election, the one where their school board president raised 74k, 50k of which came from a school district vendor.

I just fell down a 90 minute local government rabbit hole learning about the cities of chino and chino hills (guess what makes them different!), their councils, and especially this school board.

Their school board politics over the last decade is some of the worst I’ve ever seen, ever.

Bizarre that they can’t just give it to you now but if this fixes the tedious problem then it sounds like youd have one less tedious problem than you do now. Hell yeah.

This sounds like one of like, the most stressful situations. How are you doing?

Sunnyvale family reunited with lost dog after extortion attempt – 'We're so thankful' Authorities in Sunnyvale have arrested a man after he found a lost dog Monday night and allegedly tried to extort $1,000 from the dog's owners.

This, my friends, is a superb use of taxpayer money and police resources. So glad that Norm is home safe. We have zero tolerance for dognapping and dog extortion in Sunnyvale.

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/sanfrancisco/news/sunnyvale-lost-dog-extortion-arrest/

I’d need actual legal advice from my city attorney but my general attitude is that you’re going to need to make me.

Our council is far from unhinged. It was just a wild and crazy meeting confusing to many. But! Unlike many cities, we arrived at a consensus to say yes to housing on a massive scale.

Also, god bless you for remembering crow twitter! What a time to be alive.

I will be nearing retirement age

Lmaoooo

And yes. Yes the end result was based actually. I still have some legitimate concerns but what we accomplished was really great.

What we ended up voting to approve was very hinged. The proceedings were less so.

🤩

When holocaust denial comes up we turn off the mic. You’re done. Bye.

I mean, we argue, engage in occasional pettiness and carry on like any deliberative body. But this meeting was an outlier.

Like, I really don’t think that’s too much to ask.

I’ve been getting calls all day calling it “unhinged”

No actually! My council is known regionally as being maybe the most measured and sane around. We were really on one last night.

A screen grab of the Sunnyvale city council votes tweet detailing the moffett park specific plan motion and the plethora of amendments

Sunnyvale city council votes account tweet: “main motion, as amended, and with an additional friendly amendment to set the minimum density for any residential development in MP-MU to 36 du/acre, carries 7-0”

But more specifically, the Sunnyvale city council votes twitter account has this:

Thanks for asking. I’m fine, nothing that rises above what you simply come to expect on twitter.

A business meeting were people appear to be either confused, distracted, focused, or skeptical.

A business meeting that has gone off the rails, people are throwing papers everywhere and gesticulating wildly.

People in a meeting sitting around a table and doing a group high five over the center of the table. Their business endeavor has been successful.

It almost defies the English language so here:

I barely post on threads. I know that app has been breaking records so why shouldn’t this be one too.

Days on threads before getting sexually harassed: 4

Days on Bluesky before getting sexually harassed: still counting!

Plant some trees problem solved! Im sure that’s all it was about. /s

Dealing with the housing piece of all of this is a necessary part of making meaningful steps to reduce or end homelessness, but not the only one. The state has funded other good programs and should keep doing that too.

Building permanent supportive and permanent extremely low income housing is a very hard for cities to do (or want to do) even if the state were to throw money at them. The housed residents organize and fight tooth and nail to prevent it from happening. A state mandate + money might happen.

Some of that money has gone to fund transitional housing initiatives. But having a temporary place to stay isn’t a great long term solution if there are no permanent housing available to transition into. Im not aware of state funding for that. The state does not itself build housing. Cities do.