Alex Goyette
@alexgoyette.bsky.social
He/him. Dad x2, Immigration & GBV Advocate, Alexandria Lead at YIMBYs of NoVA. Go Bills.
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Gonna 🧵 some insights from this data portal as i take lil work breaks
1/ Low density residential zoning might be bad for our local economy?
Maps show inventory of various building types, overlayed with Residential Low zones. Big swaths of Alx have no commercial uses, or nearby (hello 🚗 traffic)
1/ Low density residential zoning might be bad for our local economy?
Maps show inventory of various building types, overlayed with Residential Low zones. Big swaths of Alx have no commercial uses, or nearby (hello 🚗 traffic)
Stuffing emergency in suburban Maryland so this is my turkey trot
November 27, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Stuffing emergency in suburban Maryland so this is my turkey trot
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So this cool playground in West Springfield would look even better in Alexandria. Maybe in Ewald or Ben Brenman Park? @alexgoyette.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 9:57 PM
So this cool playground in West Springfield would look even better in Alexandria. Maybe in Ewald or Ben Brenman Park? @alexgoyette.bsky.social
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An excellent topic regardless of the occasion.
Reminder: if things get awkward tomorrow, you can always talk about how much you love the library.
November 26, 2025 at 6:05 PM
An excellent topic regardless of the occasion.
"Economic development is going to be our entire organization's business, meaning that if you're one of our field personnel, you're in the economic development business," Parajon said.
"If you're Paul Stoddard in the audience as the planning director, you're in economic development”
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"If you're Paul Stoddard in the audience as the planning director, you're in economic development”
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Council receives presentation on ALX Forward economic development framework
Council receives presentation on ALX Forward economic development framework
Public comment period runs through Dec. 5; adoption vote set for Dec. 13
dlvr.it
November 26, 2025 at 3:31 PM
"Economic development is going to be our entire organization's business, meaning that if you're one of our field personnel, you're in the economic development business," Parajon said.
"If you're Paul Stoddard in the audience as the planning director, you're in economic development”
👀
"If you're Paul Stoddard in the audience as the planning director, you're in economic development”
👀
Reposted by Alex Goyette
Relative to peer jurisdictions, I think Arlington County, VA is quite well-governed. However, the county has an advisory panel going to consider big changes to our governance, including a ❗ move from at-large to district-based representation❗
November 25, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Relative to peer jurisdictions, I think Arlington County, VA is quite well-governed. However, the county has an advisory panel going to consider big changes to our governance, including a ❗ move from at-large to district-based representation❗
Gonna 🧵 some insights from this data portal as i take lil work breaks
1/ Low density residential zoning might be bad for our local economy?
Maps show inventory of various building types, overlayed with Residential Low zones. Big swaths of Alx have no commercial uses, or nearby (hello 🚗 traffic)
1/ Low density residential zoning might be bad for our local economy?
Maps show inventory of various building types, overlayed with Residential Low zones. Big swaths of Alx have no commercial uses, or nearby (hello 🚗 traffic)
November 25, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Gonna 🧵 some insights from this data portal as i take lil work breaks
1/ Low density residential zoning might be bad for our local economy?
Maps show inventory of various building types, overlayed with Residential Low zones. Big swaths of Alx have no commercial uses, or nearby (hello 🚗 traffic)
1/ Low density residential zoning might be bad for our local economy?
Maps show inventory of various building types, overlayed with Residential Low zones. Big swaths of Alx have no commercial uses, or nearby (hello 🚗 traffic)
I regret to inform you that this was not a cinematic masterpiece.
Everyone wearing *brand new* bills gear in every scene was deeply uncanny. Where is your 1992 AFC Champions sweatshirt with the tailgate mustard stain you couldn't get out?!
Everyone wearing *brand new* bills gear in every scene was deeply uncanny. Where is your 1992 AFC Champions sweatshirt with the tailgate mustard stain you couldn't get out?!
November 25, 2025 at 3:04 PM
I regret to inform you that this was not a cinematic masterpiece.
Everyone wearing *brand new* bills gear in every scene was deeply uncanny. Where is your 1992 AFC Champions sweatshirt with the tailgate mustard stain you couldn't get out?!
Everyone wearing *brand new* bills gear in every scene was deeply uncanny. Where is your 1992 AFC Champions sweatshirt with the tailgate mustard stain you couldn't get out?!
Reposted by Alex Goyette
Rise of Skywalker had one single redeeming feature, and that was Babu Frik.
November 24, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Rise of Skywalker had one single redeeming feature, and that was Babu Frik.
Tag yourself in his word cloud for "When i think of Alexandria..." from the Alx Froward Plan
I'm "leftist traffic"
I'm "leftist traffic"
November 24, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Tag yourself in his word cloud for "When i think of Alexandria..." from the Alx Froward Plan
I'm "leftist traffic"
I'm "leftist traffic"
Reposted by Alex Goyette
Mayor Gaskins, Atlantic editor to discuss housing affordability at Lyceum
Mayor Gaskins, Atlantic editor to discuss housing affordability at Lyceum
Free event to explore zoning, discrimination and housing policy
dlvr.it
November 24, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Mayor Gaskins, Atlantic editor to discuss housing affordability at Lyceum
The other day L asked what I was reading and you’d think I’d know better than to tell her after The Great Odyssey Obsession of 2024
Anyway now she’s demanding installments of Dracula (edited for kids) as a bed time story 🧛🏻♂️
“It’s just like hotel Transylvania!”
Anyway now she’s demanding installments of Dracula (edited for kids) as a bed time story 🧛🏻♂️
“It’s just like hotel Transylvania!”
November 24, 2025 at 2:53 PM
The other day L asked what I was reading and you’d think I’d know better than to tell her after The Great Odyssey Obsession of 2024
Anyway now she’s demanding installments of Dracula (edited for kids) as a bed time story 🧛🏻♂️
“It’s just like hotel Transylvania!”
Anyway now she’s demanding installments of Dracula (edited for kids) as a bed time story 🧛🏻♂️
“It’s just like hotel Transylvania!”
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I don't think I have heretofore posted this bit of handiwork form some years back, but, in prep for a new one, I am doing so now. My analysis of key barred owl subspecies. 🦉#bird
November 24, 2025 at 12:34 AM
I don't think I have heretofore posted this bit of handiwork form some years back, but, in prep for a new one, I am doing so now. My analysis of key barred owl subspecies. 🦉#bird
Remember this? Well we got another example of how feedback method changes the outcome
At an in-person meeting, the local Civic Association voted pretty overwhelmingly to oppose bike lanes on Braddock Road bc they'd remove parking
bsky.app/profile/alex...
At an in-person meeting, the local Civic Association voted pretty overwhelmingly to oppose bike lanes on Braddock Road bc they'd remove parking
bsky.app/profile/alex...
This is such a good example of how different types of input give you different impressions:
- one in-person speaker
- a majority of written comments opposed
- 87% of 1,842 survey respondents supported making the closure permanent, with 12 of 16 businesses on the block backing the proposal
- one in-person speaker
- a majority of written comments opposed
- 87% of 1,842 survey respondents supported making the closure permanent, with 12 of 16 businesses on the block backing the proposal
Alexandria City Council approves permanent closure of 200 block of King Street
www.alxnow.com/2025/09/13/a...
www.alxnow.com/2025/09/13/a...
November 23, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Remember this? Well we got another example of how feedback method changes the outcome
At an in-person meeting, the local Civic Association voted pretty overwhelmingly to oppose bike lanes on Braddock Road bc they'd remove parking
bsky.app/profile/alex...
At an in-person meeting, the local Civic Association voted pretty overwhelmingly to oppose bike lanes on Braddock Road bc they'd remove parking
bsky.app/profile/alex...
Gonna have to wash that game down with another beer and a hit of Ken Burns
November 23, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Gonna have to wash that game down with another beer and a hit of Ken Burns
Reposted by Alex Goyette
Oh dude that’s offal.
iPhone’s increasingly busted autocorrect just changed “heart rate” to “heart meats.”
How’s your Saturday going?
How’s your Saturday going?
November 22, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Oh dude that’s offal.
Thanks for everyone who chimed in. I preferenced the Tupelo then a Willow Oak, then any other native shade tree
(Neighbor has a hackberry already or that’d have been my #2)
(Neighbor has a hackberry already or that’d have been my #2)
Tree people which of these should i rank for the city to plant in our hellstrip?
Full sun, and we already have an eastern redbud in our yard so it that pls
Full sun, and we already have an eastern redbud in our yard so it that pls
November 22, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Thanks for everyone who chimed in. I preferenced the Tupelo then a Willow Oak, then any other native shade tree
(Neighbor has a hackberry already or that’d have been my #2)
(Neighbor has a hackberry already or that’d have been my #2)
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Now *that* is how you name a beer 🤣
November 21, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Now *that* is how you name a beer 🤣
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Insane but true fact: making US roads as safe as Canadian, Australian, or European roads would save more lives than eliminating murder from the US.
November 21, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Insane but true fact: making US roads as safe as Canadian, Australian, or European roads would save more lives than eliminating murder from the US.
Walking S Pickett is such a visceral study in a changing Alexandria
In a few blocks:
- new development w/ shops & wide plaza-like walkways
-shopping ctr w/ narrow, broken walk unseparated from speeding cars
- car dealership
- man sleeping in a bus shelter
- back to new builds & wide walks
In a few blocks:
- new development w/ shops & wide plaza-like walkways
-shopping ctr w/ narrow, broken walk unseparated from speeding cars
- car dealership
- man sleeping in a bus shelter
- back to new builds & wide walks
November 22, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Walking S Pickett is such a visceral study in a changing Alexandria
In a few blocks:
- new development w/ shops & wide plaza-like walkways
-shopping ctr w/ narrow, broken walk unseparated from speeding cars
- car dealership
- man sleeping in a bus shelter
- back to new builds & wide walks
In a few blocks:
- new development w/ shops & wide plaza-like walkways
-shopping ctr w/ narrow, broken walk unseparated from speeding cars
- car dealership
- man sleeping in a bus shelter
- back to new builds & wide walks
Uh oh, the Alx Forward report comes with a data portal that lets you make a bunch of different maps *and overlay zoning*
There goes the weekend
public.tableau.com/app/profile/...
There goes the weekend
public.tableau.com/app/profile/...
public.tableau.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Uh oh, the Alx Forward report comes with a data portal that lets you make a bunch of different maps *and overlay zoning*
There goes the weekend
public.tableau.com/app/profile/...
There goes the weekend
public.tableau.com/app/profile/...
Interesting chart from the Alx Forward plan, looking at what types of jobs commute into and out of Alexandria.
Many of the people who keep our community functioning in service, care, and administrative roles don't [can't afford to?] live in Alexandria
Many of the people who keep our community functioning in service, care, and administrative roles don't [can't afford to?] live in Alexandria
November 21, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Interesting chart from the Alx Forward plan, looking at what types of jobs commute into and out of Alexandria.
Many of the people who keep our community functioning in service, care, and administrative roles don't [can't afford to?] live in Alexandria
Many of the people who keep our community functioning in service, care, and administrative roles don't [can't afford to?] live in Alexandria
Reposted by Alex Goyette
Okay so many decades ago the industry stopped designing office buildings with windows that could open. Think about it, does your office building have windows that open? Probably not. 1/
November 20, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Okay so many decades ago the industry stopped designing office buildings with windows that could open. Think about it, does your office building have windows that open? Probably not. 1/
Hell yeah. Take that, Arlington (ignore the rest of the column)
November 20, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Hell yeah. Take that, Arlington (ignore the rest of the column)
Staff meeting:
"What are people thankful for? Put it in chat"
Everyone: family, my team, good news from a client, etc.
Me: Justin Beaver & family
"What are people thankful for? Put it in chat"
Everyone: family, my team, good news from a client, etc.
Me: Justin Beaver & family
November 20, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Staff meeting:
"What are people thankful for? Put it in chat"
Everyone: family, my team, good news from a client, etc.
Me: Justin Beaver & family
"What are people thankful for? Put it in chat"
Everyone: family, my team, good news from a client, etc.
Me: Justin Beaver & family