Engineer on @googlechrome. Involved in CSS and W3C standards. Previously @mozilla, @w3ctag. Mastodon: @dbaron@w3c.social
Rockville, Maryland, USA
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I think cities' incentive from SB 828 may be: don't worry about low income housing targets, classify everything that's market-rate as above-moderate even if it's affordable to moderate incomes, and try to hit the above-moderate target to avoid streamlining of 10% affordable.
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I just cannot get used to matrix's UI. When I see:
Alice 👩
Bob👨: ...
Bob👨: ...
Bob👨: ...
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by line 2 or 3 I'm convinced it's stuff Bob said (esp. given the photo!), and I get the whole conversation confused.
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If we were serious about housing, I'd guess that the Bay Area's RHNA target should probably be around 1.5M, although I'd have been happy with anything over 1M.
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In-browser usage of @SlackHQ is getting worse and worse. The past few months it seems to sign me out of all my slacks every few weeks, directing me to a page that doesn't tell me the name of the slack that I got signed out of. So I need to remember 7 names to stay signed in.
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If true, I think this is very bad news. The number should have been a lot higher than this. This (even if it's all built, which it won't be) is unlikely to be enough to improve the crisis-level housing shortage in the Bay Area.
Word on the street is the Bay Area's new Regional Housing Needs Determination is 441,176 units, which is 2.35 times higher than the 2015–23 RHND of 187,990.
Thank you, @Scott_Wiener, for authoring #SB828, which made State housing need calculation methods more logical and fair.
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I figured 34 spaces based on Table 3 in section 18.54.070 of the Palo Alto Municipal code, assuming 60-degree angle parking with an 8.5 foot stall width (the minimum), using columns H and C of the table. 9147 / 55 / 9.8 is about 17 spaces on each side in a lot that's 55x166 ft.
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Or another analogy: here's a parcel of land in suburban Palo Alto, not particularly near anything. It just sold for $3.8M (presumably for teardown) and the lot is 9147 ft². That might hold (optimistically) 34 spaces, or $111K/space for surface parking.
If you've walked around that neighborhood (which I have), you'd know that many older houses there get torn down and redeveloped into something bigger. $3.8M is the teardown value of that parcel; it would probably be the same if there were a shack on it.
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Am I reading this right that Google will demonetise YouTube?
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Around what parking costs if you don't subsidize it. Palo Alto's proposed new downtown parking garage would have cost a tad over $100K/space to build, and that ignores the cost of the land: paloaltoonline.com/news/2019…
When it's surface parking, fewer spaces on the valuable land.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
What an indictment of our leadership.
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By this logic, a supply disruption of pregnancy tests would completely eliminate pregnancies. Who is the target audience these assertions are aimed at? Like, who is actually this stupid?
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In Palo Alto, the replacements for the $30M teardowns are structured a bit differently, thanks to zoning laws that limit floor area quite strictly but don't count basements...
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Looking at the numbers more closely (for the first time in a while), I realize California's statewide COVID-19 trend graphs are overwhelmingly about southern California, which both has the bulk of the population and higher per-capita COVID-19 cases.
4/ California managed the pandemic as well as any state.
Today, California is at the highest average number of new cases in the pandemic.
Not just the highest: Very high.
Average new cases:
• Today: 2,700
• May 8, start of reopening: 1,700
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though also seems a bit scary in that it seems like it would mean not picking up future updates (in newer git versions) to that directory
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The bit at the end of marc.info/?l=git&m=158872063… seems useful for changing the default locally.
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