Josh Schroeder

@LoewyLawFirm Honestly you can probably talk to your local elected official pretty easily regardless of whether you’ve donated a penny to them or not. Send them an email and ask them to grab coffee or at least give you a call. I bet you’d be shocked how many will say yes.

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@Jeremiah_W The land behind @Rydell_TaylorTX’s house was an absolute war zone.

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@TeePegg @aarmlovi @YIMBYLAND We’ve built billions of dollars of utilities. I’m just saying we can’t build 5X overnight without any planning if land use entitlements go from R1 to R5. My point is that it’s not just zoning that is holding up housing.

@jschroed7 @aarmlovi @YIMBYLAND There are multiple examples of private water and electric utilities which charge a combination of tap fees, regular maintenance fees, and usage fees. They manage to expand service. Meanwhile, municipally-run utilities can't!

The "fix everything now" button in housing is why I won't fund local planning capacity ideas Want more housing? Delete all R1-R4 zones, making R5 your base resi zone. Map C6-12 downtown + 0.25mi of rail. Oh wait you don't wanna do that? Oh bc it'd instantly end the shortage?

@cayimby @LegeLawyer We are in the process of adopting it in Georgetown, Texas. Thanks for leading the way on this @LegeLawyer

Building codes requiring double staircases in apartments drive up construction costs. Seattle addressed this by allowing single-stairwell buildings. 30+ cities may follow. Firefighter Matthew Flaherty argues that codes should adapt to housing needs, not the other way around.

Yes, but they are limited, and the existing rate payers still pay the most significant portion. And the legislature is limiting cities’ ability to make new development pay for itself even further. Go look at every growing city in Texas’ capital improvement plans. We are falling behind on infrastructure, and private development is struggling just as hard to make up for it on their side. Part of the reason you see NIMBY attitudes in these fast-growing areas is the existing residents are experiencing water moratoriums and simultaneous skyrocketing utility costs.

@jschroed7 @YIMBYLAND Concerning! Looking into it 😌

@aarmlovi @YIMBYLAND And our state government has made it prohibitively difficult for us to collect the tax and utility revenue to do any of this.

Our city has grown at almost 20% for almost a decade. Our utility rates are up over 67% just in the last three years. No, we absolutely cannot afford to increase our utility capacity by a multiple of 5 overnight. And it’s impossible from a construction and engineering perspective. It takes us five years to get a wastewater treatment plant designed and built. I wish it didn’t, but it does.

@realmitchlittle Until I made my family show up 5 hours early for an international flight out of Austin last summer. And we walked through security in three minutes. Haven’t heard the end of that yet…

What? The lines are long.

@ShanaGattis @erikgomeztx Unless we can bring Dan Gattis out of retirement…

@ShanaGattis @erikgomeztx That’s my main point. We need Cornyn in the general election or we are going to have a problem.

DO NOT buy the so called “polls” of the democrat strategists. they want you to think Talarico can beat both. here’s the truth: Talarico can EASILY defeat Paxton. Cornyn will DEFEAT Talarico in a general. Talarico & his team are praying for a Paxton nomination. Because with Paxton at the top of the ticket, Texas turns blue from the Senate down to your local Justice of the Peace. For the love of Texas… VOTE JOHN CORNYN!

I understand that rationale, but as a mayor that got pushed from the May ballot to the November ballot in 2020, my experience was that the local elections became completely irrelevant and lost in the noise of the national cycle. And I think the next step will be to make all local elections partisan, which I also think is a mistake. I would argue that if you look across the entire country, every city that is run by nonpartisan local electeds is run better than the cities run by partisan local electeds because even cities currently run by Republicans are prone to dramatic partisan swings. I know for a fact that in Texas we have a ton of conservative local elected officials that are able to get elected solely because they don’t have to declare party affiliation. @ChuckDeVore you’re a lot smarter than me, but I’m concerned we end up with a net loss of conservative local electeds if we make local elections partisan and in November. Just my take.

My first research paper this year is up at @TPPF and it addresses one of the reasons why Texas has a lower average voter turnout than other states: we have too many election dates, such the local Saturday elections in May. Election consolidation will increase voter turnout and save local governments millions. See the reply for the paper's link!

@VarianGeorge @CDMenefee @LoewyLawFirm No, I disagree with almost everything James says and does, but I wish him no harm whatsoever, and could not imagine feeling joy over his death.

@jschroed7 @CDMenefee @LoewyLawFirm Do you “call” yourself a Christian? Will you defend the behavior and what James Transarico says and does?

I don’t care what your politics are. This is no way for a leader to conduct themselves. Despicable.

@Muddogg64 @Trav_Brown512 @LoewyLawFirm @CDMenefee I’m a Christian. I was horribly distraught when Charlie was killed. And I thought it was disgusting that anyone would celebrate his death just because they disagreed with his politics.

@jschroed7 @Trav_Brown512 @LoewyLawFirm @CDMenefee You fucks sure did dance in the streets when Kirk was murdered for speaking freely. Pound sand fucker

@Trav_Brown512 @LoewyLawFirm @CDMenefee I would not celebrate their death.

@jschroed7 @LoewyLawFirm @CDMenefee What would you do if the fbi targeted you and your family in an illegal and fundamentally innaccurate investigation? And tied you to being complicit an a Russian overtaking of the government? And went after your family?

@Trav_Brown512 @LoewyLawFirm @CDMenefee It’s okay to criticize two things at once.

@jschroed7 @LoewyLawFirm @CDMenefee What about Christian’s who defend trannys, abortion and lawfare?

@Jerrell2kb @Not_the_Bee I am a Christian, and I just find it really hard to understand how we can defend this as Christlike behavior.

@jschroed7 @Not_the_Bee So sick of non-Christians dictating Christianity.

Robert Mueller, author of the "Mueller Report," has passed away, and Trump is taking it pretty well notthebee.com/tb27a