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M. Nolan Gray Profile picture
@mnolangray
Jul 9, 2020 • 3 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
Very nice 'Tokyo suburb' energy on this Long Beach street. ImageImageImage
Long Beach is #blessed to have all these well-dimensioned alleys. You get super high land utilization and I would wager that the alley-fronting units are a major source of natural affordable housing. ImageImageImageImage
Also, @googlemaps: Please remove all this new stuff. Image

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Mar 17
Seven ideas for hosting a good monthly happy hour—something every serious YIMBY group should do:
1⃣ Host it on the same day/time, ideally at the same place—only move if you live in a massive fragmented city. You want this to become a habit.
2⃣ Host it at a local open bar—the point is to mingle. Weather allowing, host it at a place with outdoor space, e.g. a beer garden, to accommodate all.
3⃣ Don't waste your budget, assuming you have one, buying drinks or appetizers—better off members will voluntarily do that.
4⃣ Send out emails a week out and the day of. The day of, core members should be texting everyone a direct reminder, especially potential first timers.
5⃣ Make special efforts to get key stakeholders (electeds, planners) or potentially underrepresented folks to come out.
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Jan 5
Wow. Kentucky State Representative Steven Doan that would implement...basically the entire YIMBY program! I'm still learning details, but this is a great model for a zoning reform omnibus bill. Let's dive in. 🧵 (h/t @robmolou) apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/24rs/hb…
Right off the bat, Section 3 forbids jurisdictions from arbitrarily mandating larger homes and apartments, which effectively place a price floor on housing. Jurisdictions must default to the building code, which is rooted in actual health and safety considerations. Image
Section 4 likewise preempts various design/architectural/amenity mandates (e.g. forcing the construction garages) that raise housing costs without any basis in health of safety. These can often quite onerous in exclusionary suburbs. Let homebuyers make these tradeoffs! Image
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Dec 18, 2023
The best case scenario for contemporary vexillology: completely unremarkable flags.
This generation of uninspired vector flags is going to feel so unfashionably dated, "of the 2020s" in 15 years. A sample of flags adopted in 2022: Image
I actually think it's the opposite problem: many amazing flags (California, South Carolina) came out of committees. A conspicuous feature of contemporary vexillology is that it selects from vast pools of public submissions subject to strict design rules.
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Aug 21, 2023
For thousands of years, city planning focused on drawing out a street network, with water and sewer underneath, and reserving regular public spaces, and was mostly agnostic on uses or densities. One hundred years ago, that flipped.


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Today, few cities have anything more detailed than an arterial plan, leaving streets and public spaces to be defined in an ad hoc, uncoordinated way, producing the hot mess that is American suburbia. As long as the rights-of-way are designed like freeways, have at it!
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Abandoning the public realm, contemporary city planning now focuses all of its attention on micromanaging private development, to generally terrible results: segregating uses, rigidly controlling densities and form, counting up parking spaces, etc.

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Jun 21, 2023
Pro-housing zoning reform in Arizona wasn't killed by any genuinely popular opposition. Arizona families were demanding solutions on affordability! It was killed by the League of Cities and Towns, using taxpayer dollars to lobby on behalf of exclusionary jurisdictions.
In at least four states I'm aware of, Leagues threw everything they had into killing pro-housing reform this year. Impossible to understand contemporary zoning reform without understanding the pernicious role played by these groups.
reason.com/2023/06/01/nim…
It's important to level set here: there is no path to abundant and equitable housing that doesn't involve states putting up guardrails around local administration of zoning—a state delegated power.
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Jun 10, 2023
A few thoughts on this piece, which I think encapsulates a peculiar kind of market suburbanism that has happily faded with the advent of the market urbanists, a set of views that reflected libertatian opinions on zoning when I got into this issue.🧵
Characterizing single-family zoning as an implicit contract with the state has some odd implications for libertarians. Did the taxi cartel have an implicit property right in medallion scarcity? Do the sugar barons have an implicit property right in restrictive tariffs? ... Image
It's fine to say that some have set expectations based on the status quo of rigid state control of the built environment, and that we should generally be mindful when upsetting expectations. But in no sense does anyone have an implicit contract or property right in regulations.
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