Opinionist, YIMBY, prefer cycling to driving places, would like more housing to lower rent and increase options. Let’s build a better future. Pseudonym.
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rent control to remedy housing shortages is like *removing batteries from the smoke detector to solve fires*
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These are $200 (full retail, wholesale much cheaper) and install in 30 seconds. THIRTY SECONDS.
I'm begging you.
BOOT 'EM
Another sad victim of our camera ticket system this morning on Georgia Ave @CMWendellFelder @CMRobertWhiteDC
The takeaway from this is that we should get rid of the cameras. Definitely not that we should be impounding these cars earlier.
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Now's a good time as any to re-up my idea of turning the Whitehurst Freeway into DC's High Line. curbed.com/article/high-line…..
be bold: build 30,000 homes for a full-sized ninth ward in DC
Good article today from the NYT. I have still yet to hear one good reason why we should get rid of a broad, multi purpose space to satisfy one thing and one thing only. It defies imagination and what PUBLIC space is meant to be.
nytimes.com/interactive/2026…
commercial corridor dumpster pilot program is the only thing they could come up with!?
what about the alleyways? so many broken trash carts.
we’re going to hit 15M micro mobility trips vs 5M docked bike trips in dc.
embrace micro mobility and complete the bike network in dc!
DC is a biking city.
We're at 20 million annual bike trips on rideshare alone, so that's not even counting trips on personal bikes. These days I see more bikes than cars on 14th St. Now we need waaaay more bike lanes to accomodate.
DC is a biking city.
ALT https://ggwash.org/view/105246/bikeshare-beat-cabi-wakes-up-as-september-ends-micromobility-surges-in-2026 thanks to @swlittauer
ALT https://ggwash.org/view/105246/bikeshare-beat-cabi-wakes-up-as-september-ends-micromobility-surges-in-2026
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Washingtonians should vote NO on the foie gras ban--for process reasons more than substance. Plebiscite is a bad way to make policy that doesn't allow technical nuance and can't account for tradeoffs (as we've learned in the never-ending fights over the tipped minimum wage). Even if necessary in odd cases where the legislature is unresponsive for some structural reason, here there's no reason proponents can't convince a very left-wing council and mayor-elect to restrict foie gras. They just prefer the expressive rush of using a much worse policy-making vehicle, and indulging them will encourage more of the same for substantively much more damaging future referenda.
we pay artisanal residential rooftop solar producers in dc 20–25X what they pay in texas—and texas energy demand follows solar pv production. why do we pay 20–25X for solar?
bc we’re run by bureaucrats who think they know better than the market.
texas has 40GW of solar, 40 GW of wind, paying them 1.7¢ per kWh ($17 per MWh). there’s no subsidies.
rooftop solar is just inefficient and always will be. play to competitive advantage and import utility scale solar.
@GregJaczkoDC, @RiniSampath any comments?
conversation establishing the high cost of solar credits (40¢, 2X retail, 4X wholesale)
greg drunk the koolaid on artisanal residential rooftop solar pv. it’s a market clearing price. why? bc it’s inefficient.
if you omit all time and energy it’s efficient, but that’s the cost!
Today we’re launching our Capital Commonsense podcast! Listen to @RiniSampath and @GregJaczkoDC discuss yesterday’s piece on cutting District utility bills. open.substack.com/pub/capita…
texas has 40GW of solar, 40 GW of wind, paying them 1.7¢ per kWh ($17 per MWh). there’s no subsidies.
rooftop solar is just inefficient and always will be. play to competitive advantage and import utility scale solar.
@GregJaczkoDC, @RiniSampath any comments?
my vision for east potomac park + a park
This is a neighborhood.
Latest Courtyard Urbanist proposal is a walkable, fine-grained neighborhood for ~2800 homes plus retail in Tanforan, San Bruno.
Retaining Target, movie theater, and BART station.
More than 1,000 homes more than current proposal, and brings count of family-friendly homes from 0-2000+.
Let people have density AND protected outdoor space AND amazing public realms.
Read about it in latest Substack concept proposal piece (link below)
by 2022, it’d been well-documented by a dozen nations that the artisanal residential rooftop solar subsidies was an ineffective and regressive policy. yet dc still passed it.
did jlg oppose it? yes. does her mayoral platform call now for repealing it? no, she’s doubling down.
does that make jlg a better or worse candidate in your eyes exploring this, @AlexCTaliadoros ?
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This is my single most technocratic take. The President should make something like $50M a year. Senators, $1M. House members, $500k. *And* the costs of work-related travel, and of maintaining a second household in the DC area, should be fully covered for members of Congress.
In exchange, ban all Congressional stock trading.
