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🍤 @elcameron.bsky.social · 29d

As a developer and architect, who lived in a 1949 dekalb house built at 800sf, expanded to 1,008, I find it absolutely insane we have a minimum unit size. It just hurts housing availability. Makes it harder to provide starter, and downsize homes, and increases the barriers of entry for homeowners.

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · Aug 26

Love, by Gustav Klimt, 1895

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🍤 @elcameron.bsky.social · Oct 4

No coincidence that they aren’t including the other 17 amendments…

🍤 @elcameron.bsky.social · May 11

Building signage. Always important.

🍤 @elcameron.bsky.social · Feb 25

the most exciting architecture has been happening outside the US. And has been for a while.

It isn't that we can't be creative, it's that our zoning code and neighbors discourage creativity. We really can't leave each other alone.

🍤 @elcameron.bsky.social · Feb 15

Heard from a zoning official:

“Just don’t build any basketball courts. Tennis or pickleball. But no basketball. They don’t attract the right kind of people.”

Zoning in the suburbs ladies and gentlemen…

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🍤 @elcameron.bsky.social · Feb 14

Have trouble shopping for Valentine’s Day?

Get a 4yo daughter. It’s a breeze. She picks out the flowers, balloons, decorations, candy, Barbie toy, crayons, and ice cream.

Happy Valentines.

🍤 @elcameron.bsky.social · Dec 26

“Architects are going to Architect. Don’t let them do that.”

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · Dec 10

“We’re just stopping by this protest against multi-unit housing that will destroy the character of the neighborhood before we go to the Black Lives Matter march.”

Ron Sullivan @chefronsullivan.bsky.social · Dec 10

These dogs look like the villains in a movie where a golden retriever wins a snowboarding tournament

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🍤 @elcameron.bsky.social · Dec 4

It took us 100 years to create car centric, un-enjoyable cities and neighborhoods. No reason it won't take 100 years to undue it.

The only time it's been undone quicker is through re-development of mixed use residential. And small (in area) micro-malls.

🍤 @elcameron.bsky.social · Dec 4

Done.

I think it would be an interesting review of this work, to understand how much of it was used to drive vehicle centric safety rather than pedestrian safety. Did the push for safer cars make us create terrible cities to live in?

🍤 @elcameron.bsky.social · Dec 1

Learn something new everyday… facilityexecutive.com/rooftop-beek...

I actually think i knew this once upon a time, but forgot…

🍤 @elcameron.bsky.social · Nov 27

We need a new funding mechanism for construction loans. One that makes committed projects less vulnerable to fed rates.

🍤 @elcameron.bsky.social · Nov 24

We need a TV show where city dwellers swap with suburban dwellers. 2 vastly different worlds of city design. 2 vastly different ways to live.

🍤 @elcameron.bsky.social · Nov 19

Traffic isn’t caused by buildings. It’s caused by having buildings far apart.

Or. Traffic is the separation between people are, and where they want to be.

🍤 @elcameron.bsky.social · Nov 15

Just got the call. 300+ homes starting construction in January.

Now where is the wife, the music, and the tequila…