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trying to figure out what's going on here
Aug 25, 2021 4 tweets 1 min read
The @CvillePlans materials for next week's Planning Commission work session are now available. They've gone back to the March FLUM basically, including a 2.5 story height limit for General Residential, which is another way of saying nothing will change.
drive.google.com/drive/folders/… I have my good days and my bad days with these consultants. Today is definitively the latter.
Oct 27, 2019 48 tweets 21 min read
I’ve payed close attention to each city council candidate’s housing platform as I figure out who to vote for. I’ve come to the conclusion the two best candidates are @senaforcville and @MPayneCville. Here’s a thread on why, where I dive into the major candidates positions: The candidates did some excellent interviews on @CBS19News which I recommend watching. Each interview is about ten minutes.

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Feb 12, 2019 14 tweets 5 min read
This morning I walked by the new office building going up on Garrett and 2nd, behind the Glass Building. I looked up some of the history of the development. I found a chance for us to quickly go on a trip down “terrible decisions by the city to address housing” lane. In January 2015, Kuttner presented a plan to the Planning Commission to build a couple hundred fairly affordable micro units on this site, plus some office/retail space, and 271 parking spaces. cvilletomorrow.org/articles/glass…