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#HudsonCounty awards $150k contract for Kennedy Boulevard BRT feasibility study hudsoncountyview.com/hudson-county-…
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@floor_per_area I think it's a glitch, there's no way every park in the city has a 4-story structure on it!
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@3_under_scores_ Thanks!
Ah yes it just gets so tricky. There’s probably some small structure on it and that gets included.
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Had a difficult time asking Gemini basic facts about the NJ state budget. Apparently NJ's budget site changes a lot, and it can't deal with this. Kept doing insane hallucinations, esp. when I asked it to check if a url would give me a 404 error. Kept saying dead URLs worked.
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This is kind of the problem though, right? (I) Even in the best of cases, inclusionary zoning locks in high market rents. The moment market rents aren't high enough to bear the cross subsidy, construction stops until they are...
Colin Parent@ColinParent
I'd support IZ in some circumstances, where we'd have strong confidence that it would not deter construction of market rate homes. But that's hard to define. Just for luxury buildings? Just the most expensive neighborhoods? Haven't seen good policy solution to make a distinction.
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This is always what consultants pitch, but it never works, because even if they had perfect knowledge of current and future market conditions (they don't) there's politics. This is why voluntary density bonuses are so much more successful, as Colin knows!
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Colin Parent@ColinParent
Maybe someone can devise a system that applied IZ only on projects that were rented or sold at a percentage above average prices. But then measuring that, determining thresholds, all would be difficult problems. Easy to imagine circumstances changing faster than policy, too.
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This is what happened with IZ in NYC: it started as balanced voluntary IZ in high rent neighborhoods, it worked, and so it was made mandatory and applied to all rezonings, regardless of feasibility, making a decade of upzonings nearly useless.
manhattan.institute/article/de-bla…
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@goatpurple1 @mnolangray We compiled a few examples of consultancies that were hired to perform studies to "calibrate" IZ policies that ended up producing zero or very little affordable housing here (actually left some other out for brevity):
betterblocksnj.org/2026/03/03/doe…
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@goatpurple1 @mnolangray Lincoln Institute (which is supposed to promote Georgism) is a big offender as a think tank that is often quoted apologizing for IZ.
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Inclusionary zoning is fascinating in that it's universally seen as "best practice" by practitioners, yet it manifestly doesn't work. Even in theory, it presupposes a permanent housing shortage.
Basil🧡@LinkofSunshine
After 2021, Portland raised the IZ requirement from 10% to 25%, requires developers to set aside 25% of new residential units for affordable housing As a result, affordable housing fell almost 99%
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@WaluigiSoap @LinkofSunshine What is the situation with the part of White Plains Rd a bit south of that, around the Bronx Park East station? I was there recently and it seemed pretty underutilized
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@LinkofSunshine There's a neighborhood plan being developed for the White Plains Road corridor in the Northeast Bronx.
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As S.F. looks to ditch an affordable housing policy that didn't produce affordability or housing, Jersey City's Mayor Solomon has promised to create a 20% IZO even though the 15% IZO produced ZERO affordable housing units.
Even his past self disagrees with this approach!
David Vatz@davidvatz
San Francisco is considering cutting their IZ requirement to 5%. Meanwhile, Pittsburgh still requires 10% in several neighborhoods. The 10% requirement has been shown to kill housing production in Pittsburgh neighborhoods where it applies. sfchronicle.com/realestate/art…
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Nonsense. The boogeyman that spurred NYC's first zoning code is considered such an architectural masterpiece that it is illegal to change a single door or window sash on it or even paint a single brick a different color without a Landmarks Preservation Commission hearing.
Patrick Collison@patrickc
I think the YIMBY movement employs an inadvertently dishonest sleight-of-hand in talking about "Paris-scale density". Well, fine, if we're talking about Paris-style building, I'm all for it, and likely voters would be too (as they have been in the past). But what is actually on offer is quite different: they wisely interpret calls for "Paris-scale density" as something more like "Sejong City-scale density".
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So...tonight JC's new infrastructure director asked neighborhood meeting attendees for a show of hands if we should have paid parking permit zones. Is this how we're going to do street safety improvements under the new admin? Straw polls at NIMBY meetings with an avg age of 65?
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Seattle's mayor Katie Wilson has announced accelerated timeline and expanded scope of Seattle's upzones, including early implementation of the state TOD bill HB1491.
What Bruce Harrell's proposal was vs what Wilson's proposal could be (ignore regional, urban centers)
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This shit is so embarrassing.
No, the project was not funded by @LincolnRestler, @ReynosoBrooklyn, or @NYCMayor. It was funded by taxpayers.
This is thinly disguised campaign advertising and should be banned; at the very least, our politicians could have a little more dignity.
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@goatpurple1 There are some diminishing returns to height due to increased development costs and more floor area taken up by elevators. They might have optimized given the constraints imposed by UHAC and the IZO.
@3_under_scores_ - did they max out here?
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