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by zbrozek 4y ago
I was in third grade in 1995 and was being taught cursive. I thought it was ridiculously old fashioned and a waste of time. I was punished for not doing copying assignments. I still think it was a waste of time nearly thirty years later. Ha
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by zbrozek 4y ago
I don't think that will work. There's very little elasticity in the market, so to first order every dollar pumped into wages will be turned around and put into housing and drive up prices even further. There's only two ways o
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by zbrozek 4y ago
Recalcitrant cities have maliciously complied with the law and are preventing economically feasible housing from being built by leveraging SB-9.
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by zbrozek 4y ago
It would be interesting to know what drives cost gaps versus other jurisdictions.
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by zbrozek 4y ago
The balance requirement of a two-wheel vehicle probably makes them less appealing in icy weather to most folks. I don't live in an area that experiences cold weather, so I'm speculating.
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by zbrozek 4y ago
Though there were no tax breaks being discussed regarding the case, but rather just the permission to build at all.
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by zbrozek 4y ago
Well so that's the problem, right? The legislature never defined it. So we're left to argue amongst ourselves and use dictionaries, leading to cherry picks. The did, however, state that the intent of the law was to promote housing
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by zbrozek 4y ago
I filed a contest asking for a change of ratio between land and structure value (the assessor set it to approximately 100% land, which is comically wrong) and simply never got a response. I wasn't even trying to change the total.
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by zbrozek 4y ago
It's not zero sum, but it's not infinite either. It takes hardware - chips, boards, sheet metal, plastic, etc - to build mining rigs. It takes huge amounts of energy to power them. Those are finite resources and using them for dig
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by zbrozek 4y ago
My trick is to have only white socks and to not actually care if they're matching levels of tired.
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by zbrozek 4y ago
I very frequently open the wrong Google app on my phone because they're too similar. I can't even begin to count the number of times I've gotten Photos when I wanted Maps or vice versa. I sometimes hit Slack when I'm aim
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by zbrozek 4y ago
I don't think this is a seriously considered question. Digital goods are obviously less useful (or at least less important). Physical goods feed, clothe, and shelter populations. If digital goods crowd out physical ones, even to a smal
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by zbrozek 4y ago
I don't know what legal avenue will be taken should the federal government pursue a ban, but that's probably not it. As you point out, that would have unpleasant slippery slope consequences. At the same time, it's pretty obvi
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by zbrozek 4y ago
I would love to see such a case go in front of the new court. We might get lucky and overturn Euclid.
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by zbrozek 4y ago
All permits rejected at 29 days, status quo mostly remains.
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by zbrozek 4y ago
It's going to be really interesting to see how projects attempted under that remedy work out. There's basically no case law on the subject.
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by zbrozek 4y ago
The Santa Clara assessor takes contest filings, chuckles, and throws them away. I'd be surprised if it were different in Monterey.
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by zbrozek 4y ago
The arbitrariness is that the standards applied were the rule of a mob, not the application of objective standards.
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by zbrozek 4y ago
That definition is the core problem the court is contorting itself to address in the way that it likes. Development has quite a few plain-English definitions. One of them seems plenty straightforward and applicable: A project consisting of
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by zbrozek 4y ago
They can include single family homes in their housing elements, typically as "above moderate income" - code for "market rate". Or they can also include them as "low income" if they are zoned at-or-above the Mul
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by zbrozek 4y ago
The developer can't build a multi-family home there because the parcel isn't zoned for it.
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by zbrozek 4y ago
The law specifies its intent quite clearly. The Legislature’s intent in enacting this section in 1982 and in expanding its provisions since then was to significantly increase the approval and construction of new housing for all economic se
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by zbrozek 4y ago
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3929243 They're called "vacancy chains" in that world, but yes, they're real.
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by zbrozek 4y ago
The appellate court ruling upholds a Marin County superior court ruling that building a house is not a housing development project, and therefore the Housing Accountability Act does not apply. The stated legislative intent of the law was to
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Building a house in California is not a housing development project [pdf](courts.ca.gov)
75 points by zbrozek 4y ago|135 comments
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by zbrozek 4y ago
I recall reading somewhere that trees follow a sigmoid growth pattern, reaching a maturity where they no longer create a whole lot more biomass. I think the 20 separate trees would do better.
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by zbrozek 4y ago
Huh. I try really hard to avoid installing software for especially those kinds of things.
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by zbrozek 4y ago
Right, but we don't build homes, so the code today isn't relevant. The code in 1954 is what you should look at.
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by zbrozek 4y ago
That's about right from my arithmetic, assuming you charge from a fossil fuel grid. I charge from onsite solar. Still, 2x is a big improvement.
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by zbrozek 4y ago
Yes, I think that's precisely the motivation. My friend was not thrilled about the combination of super buggy behavior and long drives for software updates that he should have been able to apply himself via removable storage.

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