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But the biggest difference in unit type here is really that they're a lot smaller than typical market-rate for Palo Alto... which perhaps Palo Alto needs a lot more of, but which the zoning code discourages by having limits on so many numbers that there's an obvious result.
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There are also special cases, like housing for developmentally disabled adults (as included in part of this project) that may call for different sorts of housing than market-rate.
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Or would requiring affordable housing go through the market-rate construction rules just mean the city spends the same affordable housing money on fewer units?
Unfortunately, I'd guess the latter is going to be the much more substantial effect.
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Without that extra density and FAR, I think this project would have been a lot more expensive per unit.
In my ideal world, that extra density and FAR would be allowed everywhere. Would requiring that affordable housing go through the standard rules help get us there?
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So Palo Alto just approved (maybe not final approvals, but I think the difficult ones) its first affordable housing for seven years. paloaltoonline.com/news/2019…
The project proposed is a *lot* denser and bulkier than what would be allowed for a market-rate project.
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There's a decent line outside, but once you're inside, you're at the voting desks and should be done in 5 minutes.
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I didn't exactly feel it, but I definitely heard it and immediately thought it was an earthquake. (I happened to be awake already thanks to jetlag.) And I'm further away...
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Photos from my trip to China (Húběi Province (湖北省), specifically Yìngchéng (应城市) and Wǔhàn (武汉市)) the past few weeks: flickr.com/photos/dbaron/set…
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FWIW, I'd guess that the percentage of Firefox release channel crashes that are caused by bad RAM / disk / similar is somewhere in the 5% to 50% range. Wish I had a better estimate...
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There's a bunch of history in bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bu… . But now that the test machines are "in the cloud", I don't think we expose a useful concept of machine identity that we can look at to figure this out anymore.
The other question is what portion of crashes are bad memory.
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I think many Japanese systems would use four or six lines per door, painted on the platform to guide riders to line up correctly. (With appropriate variation in the striping for platform obstacles, of course.)
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Congratulations to @hober @sangwhanmoon & @sundress for being elected to the W3C TAG.
It's been great working with @slightlylate & @TravisLeithead on the TAG over the past few years... too bad we couldn't elect all 4 candidates & keep @TravisLeithead.
w3.org/blog/news/archives/74…
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The SF Board of Supervisors shouldn't get into the details of everything. Mostly they should hire executives they trust to run hospitals, airport, etc. without lots of intervention by the Board.
But public attention may lead them to take a deeper look at this area, as it should.
If only US taxes were actually this simple...
Back in 2008 I worked out dbaron.org/views/taxes-2007
I should really redo it for the current rules...
No, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez doesn't want to take away 70% of your income. Here's how tax rates actually work in the US: bit.ly/2GZEzxS
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So is the canonical name a hero, a grinder, or a sub? :-)
(There's a bunch of regional variation in what to call that sandwich. But, hey, I'm from Philly, so I have a preference...)
Also previously failed compilations? Otherwise you'd end up compiling things that... shouldn't compile.
So communities that see themselves as family-friendly might be unintentionally pushing their future development path to be less so because of concern about how buildings look, rather than thinking about the implications for what kind of units lead to what uses.