148 homes/acre in Copenhagen, Denmark vs. 130 homes/acre in Walnut Creek.
Who lives in new housing? I built this dashboard showing the share of people who moved in the past year who came from another metro, >100 miles away, etc. The main takeaway: People moving longer distances aren't attracted by new housing. Read more here: domainexpansion.substack.com/p/the-call-i...
domainexpansion.substack.com
Using Census data, I built a dashboard that shows where people come from when they move into newly-built housing. It's mostly local. New housing doesn't attract rich people to your city.
Another North Berkeley middle housing project has dropped. Being pitched as single family homes even though its more like rowhouses. On the old gas station
East Bay for Everyone
Shane Phillips
In about 3-7 years you will be able to buy a car that can drive itself to a nearby parking space and park itself overnight with ~2 inches clearance between the car and the next car over.
All of this onsite parking is a rapidly depreciating albatross
Darrell Owens
East Bay for Everyone
I PRA’d the bid tab summary for a different curb ramp contract let under streamlined procurement rules.
Top line: the post-reform procurement quadrupled the number of bidders and drove pricing down to the top range of peer jurisdictions.
Do you think this is enough façada articulation to pass design review ?
I need city bike plans to *stop* showing existing conditions map by facility type (i.e. Class 1-4). That doesn't tell me anything.
E.g. A class 3 on a 40 mph truck route and a 20 mph neighborhood street show up as same line type!
Rather, this map should show the Level of Traffic Street 1 network.
Tomorrow on Wednesday:
See you at 6!
When every apartment is dual aspect it's much easier to offer apartments with 3 and 4 bedrooms. And with more open space you have room for a kids play area.
