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The articles on the Amoy Gardens outbreak of SARS-1 are worth reading. The key article is nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NE… and the government report that it both builds on and partly debunks is legco.gov.hk/yr03-04/english… .
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Oh, and of the 2 RT-50 parcels that were developed:
101 Forest (only partly in the RT-50 zone) doesn't look like it has any housing. I think it's Philz Coffee plus office.
801 Alma is a 100% affordable housing complex built with the city's affordable housing money.
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How many of those 55 parcels zoned RT-35 were developed in 2004 or later (by "Year Built SCCA")?
None!
(The 10 parcels zoned RT-50 did a little better; 2 were developed: 101 Forest and 801/809 Alma.)
I'd say this makes it pretty hard to call the SOFA II plan a success.
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In late 2003 (I think, the date on the final SOFA II report is December 2003), the RT-35 zone was created, with 55 parcels zoned RT-35.
I just clicked on all 55 of them in the @cityofpaloalto parcel reports at xmap.cityofpaloalto.org/parc… .
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Nope. Palo Alto has 24 sites listed in in cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/cu… ; none are downtown. Most are in the Stanford Research Park area.
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Or maybe it's the amount of process that @cityofpaloalto puts in the way of any construction that isn't a single family home or a zoning-conformant office building or other business.
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This restrictive zoning includes the floor area ratio (FAR) limit of either 1.15:1 or 1.3:1 (!!!!), the setbacks (15 feet front and sides, 10 feet rear), and the parking requirements (1 space per 1 bedroom or smaller unit, 2 spaces per 2 bedroom or larger unit).
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Then I think it's clear the city is placing obstacles in the way of construction of housing.
Maybe it's the zoning (RT-35, part of the SOFA II plan) which, while it says it's for 35-foot residential or mixed use, doesn't really allow what you'd think that means.
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When you see something like this (940 and 960 High Street, Palo Alto, CA):
- 8 minutes walk from Palo Alto Caltrain, or from University Avenue in the center of downtown
- zoned for 35 foot high residential construction (RT-35)
- in a location that has had high rents for years
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Software folks: remember what continuous integration was like before atomic commits? How you could get a build failure or test failure because it pulled the tree "mid-checkin"?
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United States Cabinet members or Biden nominees (so far) born in or after 1970:
Anthony Foxx (April 1971)
Kirstjen Nielsen (May 1972)
Julián Castro (September 1974)
Miguel Cardona (July 1975)
Chad Wolf (1976)
Pete Buttigieg (January 1982)
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If I try taking a photograph when my phone battery says 11%, the phone powers off. And then if I try to turn it on again, it will power off again partway through the boot sequence...
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The last _Democratic_ Senator from Southern California was John V. Tunney, who was elected to a single 6-year term in 1970.
* I count Barbara Boxer as being _from_ Northern California, although she moved to Southern California during her third term (of four) in the Senate.
It's almost like we'd forgotten that California's senators are allowed to be from Southern California.😉
Congrats to @AlexPadilla4CA.
His appointment will make history. But the @AlexPadilla4CA I know is far more interested in changing history -- especially for the working men and women of our state and country.
I can think of no one better to represent the state of California as our next United States Senator.
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Have been to all 4... and all 4 are worth going back to. Voted for Taipei, but there's definitely a dependence on what season you're going that I didn't include.
(Bias: I've spent a total of about 2.5 months in Taipei, 2 months in Tokyo, 2 weeks in Seoul, and 2 weekends in HK.)
It's even more fun when you cross continents:
1. Rome is further north than NYC
2. Portland, OR is (barely) north of Montréal
3. Boston is west of Santiago, Chile
4. Havana, Cuba is north of Hong Kong
5. Seattle is south of Paris
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